"The Rev. Major H. Ross, a prominent clergyman in the A.M.E. Zion Church for the past fifty-six years and formerly of the Douglass Church of Elmira died yesterday morning at his home, in Rochester after an illness of a few weeks of a complication of diseases. He was seventy-six years old and was born in Maryland. As a young man he entered the church and has been one of its leading teachers all of his life. Last year he celebrated the fifty-sixth year of his services and attended a reception tendered to him. In 1876 he was offered a bishopship in Zion Church but he preferred to remain a pastor and declined the honor. He had held important charges, notably in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Troy, Saratoga, Ithaca and elsewhere. His last church was at Jamestown. In the year 1906-7 he held the pastorate in the Auburn A. M. Zion Church, and during the past four years had been presiding elder for the Western New York conference. He was also a director of the Harriet Tubman Home. The decedent served during the Civil War as a servant to General B. F. Tracey of Owego."
"Rev. Major H. Ross," Elmira Star-Gazette [Elmira, NY], December 20 1909, 2.