Ending three years of confinement to her room, most of which time she was bedfast, Mrs. Ellen M. Ross, aged 86, died at her home, 150 South Arch avenue, at 4:30 Thursday morning.  She had been failing for five years.  About two weeks ago, Mrs. Ross fractured her hip in walking from her table to the bed, which was as great a distance as she could get about.  Often she has had slight falls while moving in her room, she being a rather heavy woman and lately rather weak, but this was the first time she had been injured.  The shock to her weakening system probably hastened death.

Friends have been unable to see Mrs. Ross for many weeks, and for the last two weeks another nurse has been in attendance besides Mrs. Sell, who has been with her for many months.  Living at her home were Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Gaston, who conduct the millinery store at Main and Linden.  Mr. Gaston is a nephew.

Mrs. Ross was born near Hanoverton, March 22, 1829, and was first married to a Dr. Bost of that region.  Her father built the Minerva Canal Fulton canal.  When her husband died she came to Alliance and for some time ran a millinery store in the Orr block.  This was discontinued upon her marriage to I. N. Ross.  Mr. Ross was a contractor and built the present basin occupied by the Alliance waterworks.  They also had charge of a coal bank at Bolton.  For the last twenty-five years Mrs. Ross has been a widow, and for 40 years has lived in Alliance.

Funeral announcements are not given out as yet, but it is understood that burial will take place at Augusta, in the family burying plat.