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Submitted: 1/19/11 • Approved: 6/14/22 • Last Updated: 6/17/22 • R449848-G0-S3
Company K 1st Texas
Civil War Confederate
October 7, 1843 - May 14, 1914
*Obituary
Fayetteville Daily
Thursday, May 14, 1914
ROSSER, W.E. – Prof. W.E. Rosser, aged 71 years, died this afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at his home on Willow Street following a brief attack of apoplexy on Monday morning of this week. Prof. Rosser, who was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1843, has lived a long and useful life, the last forty-six years of which were spent in this county. Although his parents had early moved to Texas, Prof. Rosser was educated in Henry and Emory College, Virginia, and answered the call for volunteers in the Confederate army in 1861, while still a student. He served with honor and credit throughout the Civil War. In 1868 he came to Washington County and has made his home at different points in the county ever since, having taught school almost continuously since that time, until a few years ago. For the past few years Prof. Rosser has been County Surveyor and was nominated for re-election to that position at the Democratic Primary on March 25th. Funeral services will be held from the family residence Friday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, conducted by Rev. N.M. Ragland and Rev. L.D. Riddell. Interment will take place at Evergreen Cemetery.
*Obituary
Fayetteville Daily
Friday, May 15, 1914
The funeral of the late Prof. William E. Rosser took place this afternoon from the home on North Willow Street. The active pall bearers were: Mack Morton, Will Morton, Dr. N.F. Drake, Gus Parker, H.F. Reagan and L.E. Hall. Honorary pall bearers were; White Walker, George Dean, P.F. Davidson, Gus Lewis, Judge J.T. Hight and J.E. Vaughan. The choir sang “Nearer My God to Thee,” “Lead Kindly Light.” and “Some Time We’ll Understand.” Rev. L.D. Riddell read the Scriptures and offered the prayer. Mr. Ragland made a brief address speaking in part as follows: “I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day.” “These words of the holy apostle spoken under the solemn sanctions of accepted death fitly characterize our lamented brother’s faith and life. His mind and heart were too large to be confined within the limits of a formulated creed. Like Michael Faraday he believed that a man’s religion is a matter of his individual relationship to Christ. To be right in this is to be right about everything else. Whatever he did either in word or deed was done heartily as to the Lord.” “Prof. Rosser’s best work was done in the home and in the school room. His children and his pupils are his joy and crown. This is a heritage that few kings possess and would not be exchanged for the riches of Croesus gained from his victories, his mines, and for golden sands of Packtolus.” “The lord be praised, our brother lived to see all his children – five daughters and two sons – born into the kingdom, and become exemplary Christians. Ever one of these is also doing a high grade of service in the world’s work and in the world’s redemption. Six of these children are here today and one is in heaven.” “A large company of young people from some of the best homes in Washington County came under the tuition of Prof. Rosser either as private pupils or members of the public schools. Many of these are holding responsible positions in this county, and some are sowing the good seed of the kingdom on mission fields in the lands beyond the seas. The classroom affords the best opportunity for one to do a lasting service for his country.” “William E. Gladstone used to say: “It is in her public schools that the youth of England are prepared for the duties of public life. England would not be what she is without her system of public education. No other country can become what England is without the advantages of such a system." “Looking back over the long and useful life of our lamented brother there is little in his death to regret. The end came just as he would wish, in his own home at high noon, in the presence of the devoted wife and children, the summons came, and he joined the company of the redeemed in the better land. The end of such a life is the dawn of immortality.”
*Obituary (News Article)
Fayetteville Democrat
Thursday, January 10, 1907
W.E. Rosser to be awarded the Southern Cross of Honor on January 19, 1907 by the Mildred Lee Chapter No. 98 of the U.D.C.
*Obituary (News Article)
State of Arkansas Confederate Pension Archives
Mrs. W.E. Rosser, widow of W.E. Rosser, who died May 14, 1914, filed Widow Application #29253 with the Confederate Pension Board of Washington County for a Confederate widow pension and it was received as allowed July 15, 1927 at the State, citing her husband’s service with the Texas Troops from 1861 thru 1865.
Contributed on 1/19/11 by judyfrog
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