THE JOHN ROSS CLAN
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This is an ongoing site. LAST UPDATED 06/14/2009
THIS WEBSITE IS DEDICATED TO OUR ROSS FAMILY AND ALL THE ALLIED FAMILIES THAT MAKE
UP A PART OF OUR FAMILY
THE BASIC INFORMATION OF THIS WEBSITE WAS TAKEN FROM THE INFORMATION THAT
BARBARA YARBERRY HAD RESEARCHED FOR YEARS.
ALL OF THE ROSS FAMILY DEEPLY THANK HER FOR HER DEDICATION IN GETTING US STARTED
FINDING OUT OUR ANCESTORY.
THIS WEBSITE IS HERE FOR THE PURPOSE TO KEEP A RECORD OF WHERE WE CAME FROM AS A FAMILY
AND TO HELP OTHERS IN THEIR SEARCH FOR THEIR ROOTS
PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU FIND ANY ERRORS.
YOU CAN USE ANY INFORMATION YOU MAY FIND HERE.
PLEASE CONTACT ME IF YOU HAVE PHOTOS OR ANY INFORMATION OF ANY OF THESE FOLKS YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE.
Helen SHUPTRINE shuptrine@arkansas.net
THANKS FOR ALL WHO JOINED US FOR THE
ROSS REUNION HELD JUNE 6, 2009 IN HOPE ARKANSAS.
THIS WILL BE A YEARLY REUNION IN HOPE WITH DETAILS COMING SHORTLY FOR 2010
Picture of the Ross Cemetery taken in 2007. It is well kept by our
family in Hope Arkansas
The Ross Cemetery is a private family cemetery located on the land homesteaded by John Ross ca 1821 before Arkansas became a state
BARBARA ROSS IMPSON pays for the upkeep of this cemetery.
PLEASE send a donation to help with the expenses
SHOVER SPRINGS BAPTIST CHURCH
Shover Springs Community was built at the site of an early day health resort operated by George W. Shover. Some of the original family names include HAYNES, GARNER, ROSS, HAMM, and ROTHWELL.
From "A Century of Service by Union Baptist Association.
ROSS REUNIONS IN HOPE ARKANSAS
JOHN ROSS IN ARKANSAS
ALLIED FAMILY NAMES INCLUDED IN THIS WEBSITE
BOSLEY - COX
ALBERT-------ALDERMAN-----ALLEN
BARNEY-------BELL---------BIRD---------BOND
COLE---------COX
DRAKE
FULLER
GALLOWAY-----GAMMON-------GREENBERRY
HALL---------HAMILTON-----HAMMONDS-----HOSKINSON
JAMES
KAYES
MILLER-------MOUSER
NORRIS
PARRISH------POLK---------PRICE
RICHARDS-----RICHARDSON---ROBERSON-----ROTHWELL
SPURGEON-----SUTTON
THOMAS-------TIPTON
WANTLAND-----WILEY
EDMONDSON - LOGAN
ALLISON------ARCHER
BRANCH-------BRIDGE------BUTLER
CARVER-------CHAMBERS
DAVENPORT----DAVIS
HARRIS-------HOOPER------HOSEY
JEFFERSON
KELLY
LAMB---------LEWIS-------LOGAN
MAY----------MOUSER
ROSS
SEAY---------SHERMAN-----STINSON
THUNDERBIRD--TRENT-------TYREE
WILSON-------WOOTEN
YOUNG
GALLOWAY
BIRD
BOSLEY
COX
GREENBERRY
RICHARDSON
WANTLAND
ROTHWELL
BATEY
COWLES
DWIGGINS
FRYAR
HARDER
JONES
MAY-----------MOUSER
PATTERSON-----PHIPPIN
RALEY---------ROBERTS
SMITH---------SNYDER------STEVENSON
WISE
TYREE - DAVENPORT
CANTLEY
EDMONDSON
GORDON--------GRIMES
LOOMIS--------LOVE
ROSS
THOMAS
WILSON
BYRD
COX
KELLY
LOGAN
MILLER
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF REUBEN ROSS is relevant to our ROSS family history. The author James ROSS states that material comes from an old family
record brought from North Carolina in 1833. The branch of this ross family - our William ROSS being an older brother of Reuben ROSS.
ON LINE BOOK OF THE LIFE AND TIMES OF REUBEN ROSS
THE BIOGRAPHY OF REUBEN ROSS
WILLIAM ROSS
William Ross of Martin County, North Carolina, born 9 August 1731, died 25 December, 1801. He was a Revoluntionary War contributor. This William was the son of a William who went from Roanoke,
Virginia to North Carolina, William (no. 2) married Mary Griffin in Martin County, North Carolina, She was born 1730 died 1802. Mary was the daughter of
Edward Griffin Sr. and Grace _____.
Children:
WILLIAM ROSS OF MISSOURI
In the information found on William ROSS of Cape Girardeau it is learned that our William having been a soldier in the Revolutionary War went back to North Carolina but did not stay. Not being married he walked with his rifle to what was Louisiana Territory,
which is now Missouri. He did marry and by land sales must have been married twice. The first marriage was to an Elizabeth and the second Jane. Jane is in his Will.
William ROSS lived in Missouri when it was a territory of Louisiana. In Houck's History of Missouri volumne 2 page 191, some men settled near William ROSS in 1797. In Houck's Spanish Regime volumne 2, page 407 (recopied in History of Southeast Missouri
the census of 1803 states the household of William ROSS had no slaves, 2 first class white males, 2 second class white males, 2 first class white females and 1 second class white female. This census states in the year ending November 1, 1803 he had 800 bushels of corn, 100 lbs.
of flax and hemp, 1,000 lbs. of cotton, 50 lbs. of maple sugar, 10 horned cattle and no horses. Some of these cattle were probably oxen to plow with and since he did not believe in slaves the two first class males and the two first class females must have worked very hard.
A footnote to this census page 412 says that William ROSS settled at Grey's Point first known as Cape La Crus, and later known as Ross Point and that Peck preached at his house. In John Mason Peck's Memoirs he reports visiting and preaching there. William was an active
Baptist in the Bethany Association and named a daughter Bethany.
In the History of Scott County, Missouri up to the early 1880 by Edison Shrum on page 28: William ROSS original Spanish land grant Survey No. 226; 356 acres, year about 1796. Publication Ciitizens of Missouri, 1787-1810 Vol. 1 by Frances Ingmire,
page 13 William ROSS claiming 420 arpens of land situated on the Mississippi District Cape Girardeau, produces to a board of concession from Zenon Trudeau, Lt. Governor, dated 5 January 1798 a plat of survey dated 7 December 1798 certified 5 January 1800.
The following testimony in the foregoing claim taken by Frederick Bates, Commissioner by authority from the Board at Cape Girardeau, 2 June 1808.
Andrew Ramsay, Sr. duly sworn says claimant settled in the spring of 1797, lived in a camp and in the following year, cleared, enclosed and cultivated premises inhabited and cultivated by or for claimant to the present day. Upwards of 20 acres now in cultivation, an orchard
planted some years ago. The board confirmed to William ROSS 420 aprens of land as described in a plat survey certified 5 January 1800 and found on record in Book A page 197 of the recorders office (Certificiate No. 226).
From the land records we find William adding to his land. For the sum of $200.00 he purchased 240 arpens of land on the bank of the Mississippi river from Peter Godaine. Recorded 13 August 1805 Book A and B page 22 and 23.
In American State Papers volumne 2 Land Claims in Missouri Territory, page 571 the land commissioners confirmed the Spanish Territorial Grant to William ROSS 1 May 1809 No. 226 of 420 arpens on the Mississippi River in Cape Girardeau District.
SPANISH LAND GRANTS
To get a land grand the following had to be done: clear part of the land, build a house, plant crops and swear loyalty to the King of Spain within a year and a day from the time the grant was received. To complete the title the claim had to be surveyed and the claim approved
by the Governor General of the province, who was in New Orleans, This was a difficult matter in those days and only 13 had been completed from 1808 to 1833 the U. S. Land Commission Boards tried to untangle the mess. A few remained in doubt until 1835.
Giving special attention to the following we find in Deed Book C page 134 18 January 1810 William ROSS and Elizabeth, his wife, to Steven Stilley. For diverse good causes, ___ acres in Tywappity Twp; begining at William ROSS upper corner on the bank of the Mississippi River,
and bounded by the river. Signed William ROSS, Elizabeth ROSS. Witness Joseph Mosby, John Mosby, Edmond Hogan (Justice of the Peace). Recorded 25 January 1810.
In Carter's Territorial Papers William is in the lists Cape Girardeau residents who signed petitions
1806 Petition to Congress to inhabitants of the territory 9 September 1811 William's son Enoch also signed. A Noah ROSS signed also. Pages 389 and 471.
Goodspeed History of Southwest Missouri embracing a Historical Account of ____ is Cape Girardeau. At this time Tywappity was in Cape Girardeau County. Now is Scott County page 550.
MORE LAND RECORDS
Several land records list William land location, such as bounded on the South of William ROSS land. These are not listed here. Two that might be of interest to other people are the following: 1 September 1813 Edmond Hogan and Tatsey, wife, of Stuart County, Tennessee selling Cape Girardeau,
Missouri land 31 September 1817 Deed Book D Stephen Stilley, late of Cape Girardeau County. The following most important to us is:
Deed Book E page 536, 20 November 1819 Stephen Stilley and Elizabeth, wife of Polk County, Illinois to William ROSS and Jane, wife, for the sum of $300 for ___ arpens in Tywappity Twp on the Mississippi River, beginning at the NE corner of William ROSS's survey. Signed Stephen Stilley,
Elizabeth Stilley. Witness Edward Kew, John Baldwin, A.G. Young, Justice of the Peace in Gallatin County, Illinois, William Kelso Justice of the Peace. Recorded 17 November 1820. Stephen had given William $400.00 in 1817 for this land.
NOTE: Here we have Jane as William ROSS wife and is not the first wife in land transaction bottom of preceeding page named Elizabeth. Source of land records in Collage of Cape County volume 23 number 2 pages 20 and 21.
OLD APPLE CREEK CHURCH
On the second sabbath in June 1816 the organization of Bethel Association met at Bethel Church and was opened by prayer by Thomas Donohue. A serman was delivered by Elder James Edwards, after which an organization was effected. William ROSS was one of the delegates represented with Tywappit Church.
Apple Creek Church was first known as an arm of Bethel Church and was given a second organization about 1820
Apple Creek church near Pocahontas, Cape Girardeau, County, Missouri was a Presbyterian church. Anniversaries were celebrated in May of each year from 1871 to 1921. May was also the month of the annula meetings. In 1996 the Collage of Cape County printed an address by John A. Hope,
Sunday May 22, 1926 titled Old Apple Creek Church and its Early Membership.
It was organized in 1821. Wilis Knox Sketch of Apple Creek Church publised 1911, the following persons met here on 21 May 1821 and organized this church. Not long after the organization of the church the name ROSS was in the congretation and member of the church. Zenas ROSS farm was on the road to
Pocahontas to Neilley's Landing. Zenas Ross was bonr 12 March 1802 and died 20 September 1862.
William ROSS has a Spanish Grant near the present Thebes Bridge. The place was then called Ross Point. He had a son, John Ross and Hannah Harris his wife.
William ROSS was living on the river just below Cape Girardeau that Oliver Harris whose sister married a ROSS, and Oliver Harris on coming to Missouri would naturally have selected a place on the river near his sister. Oliver Harris father was Robert Harris and grandfather James Harris.
Every name has an interesting background. Ancestors of each of them figure bravely, honorable and conspicuously in the history of the struggles of the Scottch in Ireland for civil and religous liberty in our colonial and revoluntionary annals, giving a history of the beginning would be like giving a history of the Presbyertian faith.
It would be the story of the Scotch Irish from the time, early in the homes in Ireland and settled in what was then the frontiers of Pennsylvania. We would have to trace the family to the individual under discussion, through the Valley of Virginia, into the Carolinas, and Tennessee and on to Missouri on the frontier, founding homes,
churches, communties, counties and commonwealths; building first, where ever the family settled a Presbyertian church and beside it a school house.
The North Carolina Settlement in Cape Girardeau County which centered around this church was an important event in the founding and development of the state. It may not be amiss to note the condition of this section of the country at the time our forefathers settled here. This entire northeast corner of the country was a wilderness.
The Shawnee Indians had a village on Indian Creek, west was a big town of Shawnee and Delaware Indians near the mouth of Apple Creek. The nearest inhabitants, other than the Indians, was the Byrd family on Byrd Creek near Jackson; John Hays, first sheriff of the county and Register of the Land Office, who then lived on the river at the
place now known as Lovejoy; John Logan and General Henry Seibert on Apple Creek at the place later known as Wlkerson.
From the Collage of Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, General Quarterly June 1966.
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF WILLIAM ROSS
In the name of God, Amen. The Last Will and Testament of one, William ROSS, being old and knowing that all men are born to die and that I can not live long by the code of nature and yet being of a strong mind and in my proper senses have made this as my Last Will and Testament as the final settlement of my worldly concerns.
There first of all: I do most senserly commend my spirit to God who gave it and my body to be interred in my burying ground there to remain there until it be raised by the power of God at the last day and for the disposal of my property I do command that out of’ the proceeds of my estate shall be paid all lawful debts, doctor bills
and funeral expenses; then I do will and bequeath all the rest of my personal estate to my dear and beloved wife JANE for her support during her natural life do here will at her death what remains of the personal property shall be equally divided between my affectionate son and daughter JOHN and MARTHA and
to my two sons ENOCH and JOHN I do bequeath my real estate consisting of plantation where on I now live containing four hundred and twenty arpens to be divided as follows: beginning at a hickory tree to a place on each side standing in the line between my land and the land of John Baldwin in and near the middle of
a wet piece of ground lying between the river and the hills and the run from; thence due north to a creek to the first fork of the same; thence up main north fork until it crosses the line each more or less to be a separate track of lands; and the track lying on the river, I do give and bequeath to my beloved son JOHN
to be at his disposal at the death or marriage of my wife JANE, and the other track I do give and bequeath to my beloved son ENOCH to have and to hold the same from the date of this my Last Will and Testament and to my beloved daughter, BETHANY, I do will the sum of ten dollars and to my beloved daughter, MARY,
I do will and bequeath the sum of ten dollars to be paid out of my estate at the death or marriage of my wife JANE. This being my last Will and for the better execution this my last Will I do nominate my beloved wife JANE ROSS and my sons JOHN ROSS and ENOCH ROSS as executrix and executors to manage my business
after my death to be done according to the ue intent of my Last Will and Testament in testimony whereof I have there unto put my hand this the fifth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty signed in the presents of us:
John Baldwin,
John G. Smyth ,
James P. Edwards,
William ROSS
County of Cape Girardeau L. S. (L. S.) John Baldwin and John G. Smyth being duly sworn say that William ROSS above deceased did on this day willing witness sign and be lived the foregoing writing as his Last Will and Testament that he being of sound and disposing mind that they undersigned their names there to in the presence
of said testator and at his request and in the presence of James P. Edwards, the other subscribing witness and subscribed before the twenty fourth of May A. D. 1820.
Joseph Ferrona , Clerk of Circuit Court
ENOCH ROSS, deceased ESTATE
Know all men by these presents, that we Joel Boggess, Polly ROSS, Henry Hand and John ROSS are held
and firmly bound to Alexander McNair, Governor of the State of Missouri or his successors in office, in the sum of eight
hundred dollars for payment where of well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, jointly and severly firmly by these presents.
Sealed with our seals the twenty seventh day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty three.
The condition of the above obligation is such, that if the above bounded Joel Boggess administrators and
Polly ROSS, Administratrix of all and singular the goods, chattels, rights and credits of Enoch ROSS deceased,
do make or cause to be made a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods, chattels, rights and credits of
the said deceased which have or shall come to the hands, possession or knowledge of them the said Joe Boggess and Polly ROSS or into the hands or possession of any person and the same so made do return and exhibit in the office
of the County Court for the County of Cape Girardeau on or before the 26th day of November next, and all and singular the goods and chattels, rights and credits of the deceased which shall come to the hands, possession or knowledge of the said Joel Boggess and Polly ROSS shall well and truly administer according to law, and pay the debts
of the deceased as far as his assets shall extend and the law direct, and further make or cause to be made just and true accounts of their said administration, and make due and proper settlements thereof from time to time according to law or the Order Sentence or Decree of any account having competent jurisdiction and shall moreover well and truly do
and perform all other matters and things, touching the said Administration, as are or shall be prescribed by law or enjoined on by the order, sentence, or decree of any court having competent jurisdiction, then this obligation to be void and of no effect. Otherwise, to remain in full force and effect.
In the presence of Joel (his mark X) Boggess; Peter R. Garrett, Polly (her mark X) ROSS, John ROSS, and Henry Hand
We do solemnly swear that Enoch ROSS died without any Will
Signed by Joel Boggess and Polly ROSS
We do solemnly swear that to the best of our knowledge there are in being Polly ROSS, widow, Robert Felire (?) ROSS, a child all legal heirs and Representatives of Enoch ROSS, who died intestate.
Sworn to and subscribed before the 27th day of October AD 1823.
1823, September 30 Book F, page 381 John ROSS sold 210 acres to Thomas Bryne recorded Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
27 days after John ROSS sold land to Thomas Byras.
7 January 1836 John ROSS bought land in Hempstead County, Arkansas Vol. 3, page 429. Township 13 South, Section 17, Range 23 West, containing 100 acres more or less.
Abstract of title #5961, dated 9, November, 1911 list the heirs as the land changed hands.
John ROSS moved from Cape Girardeau area to Arkansas where he married Annis Mae GALLOWAY - ROTHWELL and thus began the Arkansas branch of our ROSS family.
MARRIAGE OF JOHN ROSS and
ANNIS M. GALLOWAY - ROTHWELL
State of Arkansas
Hempstead County
I, S. H. Thomas, J.P. an acting and duly commissioned Justice of the Peace within and for the
County of Hempstead, do hereby certify and make known,that on the 13th day
of March AD 1853 at the county aforesaid came before me John ROSS, who is and
then was a resident of Hempstead County, in the State of Arkansas then of the age of about
fifty years, and Annis M. ROTHWELL who then was a resident of Hempstead
County in the State of Arkansas and then of the age of about twenty two years and then the
said John ROSS and Annis M. ROTHWELL were then and there by me at their
request and desire, joined in the bonds of matrimony, and the said John ROSS
then and there promised and agreeing to take said Annis M. ROTHWELL to wife,
to love, comfort her and keep her, until separated by death and she the said Annis M.
ROTHWELL then there promising and agreeing to take the said John ROSS
for her husband to love honor, serve obey and keep, until separated by death then the said
John ROSS, and Annis M. ROTHWELL became and by me were then there,
declared to be husband and wife.
In witness whereof, I do hereby set my hand as Justice this 19th day of March 1853.
Filed and received 6 April, A.D 1853
John ROSS, son of William and Jane ____ ROSS, born 17 March 1800, Cape Girardeau,
Missouri married 13 March 1853 to Annis Mae GALLOWAY - ROTHWELL. It is said that although he
was 53 years old he had never been married before, which may have been true because of the
shortage of women. He married a young widow with 2 sons, who had moved to Arkansas from
Tennessee with her father’s family. John died 7 April 1872 at Spring Hill, Arkansas and buried
near his home, he is the one ROSS Cemetery is name after.
Annis Mae GALLOWAY, daughter of William and Sophia COX GALLOWAY, born 27 July, 1830 in Meigs County, Tennessee died on her birthday in 1888. She is buried by her husband in the Ross Cemetery.
Annis Mae married 6 December 1848 Meigs County Walter L. ROTHWELL born ca. 1824 son of Richard and Lacy BARKSDALE - ROTHWELL, Annis and Walter appear in the Meigs County 1850 census with a son ROTHWELL family Bible records Walter’s death September 1852 in Arkansas.
CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN OF JOHN AND ANNIS MAE GALLOWAY-ROTHWELL-ROSS
ca1906 this is not all of the children. This group went to town and had a professional take the picture.
Left to right:Back Row: Willam ROTHWELL, Mike PURTELL, Harrison ROSS, Mattie & John ROSS,
Mark ROSS
Second Row: Grace ROSS, Thena ROSS, Bill ROTHWELL, Dick ROTHWELL, G W & Meg ROSS, Mattie ROSS
Front Row: Richard ROTHWELL, Eric and Earl (sons of Harrison), Olivia ROSS
WILLIAM (BILL) THOMAS ROTHWELL
William (Bill) Thomas born 6 Jan 1850 in Meigs County, Tennessee son of Walter and Annis Mae GALLOWAY - ROTHWELL,
married Amanda J. Gibbons 27 Dec 1868 in Hempstead County, Arkansas died 23 March, 1924 Ellsville, Calhoun County, Arkansas
buried Ebenezer Cemetery, Fordyce, Arkansas.
Children:
JOHN RICHARD (DICK) ROTHWELL
John Richard (Dick) son of Walter and Annis Mae GALLOWAY - ROTHWELL,
born 19 June 1850 Hempstead County, Arkansas married 18 May 1871 Mary E. ROBERTS,
2nd married Mary Ann MAY 27 Jan 1881 daughter of Benjamin MAY buried Shover Springs.
Children:
GEORGE WASHINGTON ROSS
FAMILY OF GEORGE WASHINGTON ROSS 50 FIRST COUSINS AND FAMILIES
George Washington son of John and Annis Mae GALLOWAY - ROSS born 22 Nov 1853 at Spring Hill, Arkansas died 21 July 1938 buried Union Grove;
married June 4, 1871 to Percilla (Lizzie) Elizabeth EDMONDSON, daughter of William and Sarah TYREE EDMONDSON.
Lizzie born 10 Aug 1857, died 24 March, 1896 buried Liberty
Children:
G. W. and Margaret (Meg) had 3 children:
OBITUARY OF PRISCELLA ELIZABETH ROSS
ROSS-Mrs. Priscella Elizabeth ROSS, wife of G. W. ROSS, of the Blackland community, was born August 10, 1857 and died March 24, 1896. She was the mother of 11 children, 8 of whom are living. She professed faith in Jesus in the summer of 1871 and joined the Protestant Methodist Church. After some years she connected herself with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and at the time of her death was a member of the Mathew Fontaine congregation. She was a very humble and consistent Christian, a self sacrificing wife and a devoted mother. Her life was spent for the good of others. Patient in suffering, constant in the discharge of her duties as a wife and mother she exhibited those noble traits of character that exalt the life of a woman. Hearts are bereaved when another is called to her long home. The husband mourns for his best earthly friend. The Heavenly Father has said: As a mother comforteth so will I comfort you. We pray that the memory of the deceased mother may be a source of comfort to the bereaved, and an incentive to the husband and the children to so live that in the sweet bye and bye; they may be an unbroken family in the "Mansion of Rest. George W. Reeves
MARTIN AND MARTHA JONES ROSS
MARTIN (MARK) Luther ROSS
Martin (Mark) Luther son of John and Annis Mae GALLOWAY ROSS
Martin born 15 Jan 1854 Hempstead County married 23 Aug 1877 to Martha Louisa (Eliza) JONES born 29 Jan 1855 Spring Hill Arkansas daughter of William and Emily MOUSER JONES.
Children:
TENNESSEE ELIZABETH ROSS EDMONDSON
Tennessee daughter of John and Annis Mae Galloway ROSS born Hope, Arkansas 1 Sept 1856, married John EDMONDSON in 1884;
They moved from Arkansas to Oklahoma when it was Indian Territory in a wagon. John EDMONDSON was killed in 1920 when a stone in a gristmill exploded
Papa and Aunt Thena lost tract of Aunt Tennessee. When Uncle Mike and Aunt Thena got a car, Thena and Papa went to Oklahoma to try and find her.
She had moved to Texas with a daughter. They did find a son and family. Finally they drove to Wolfe City, Texas and brought her back for a visit.
While she was here, she visited us several times.
Aunt Martha would come during the time she would be with us. by Wreath ROSS JONES, Hope, Arkansas.
Tennessee died 18 May 1944 buried Lamasco Cenetery, Fannin Co. TX
Children:
MARTHA SOPHIA ROSS HAYNES
Martha daughter of John and Annis Mae GALLOWAY ROSS
born 29 Jan 1858 Hempstead County, Arkansas died 1952 buried Bluff Springs; married 23 June 1878 to Lewis Caston HAYNES
born Oct. 1850 Camden died 1921 buried Bluff Springs son of Joseph and Lucretia (Lou) __HAYNES
Children 9:
MARY VICTORIA ROSS MOUSER
Mary Victoria daughter of John and Annis Mae GALLOWAY ROSS
born 1 June 1860 Hempstead County, Arkansas; married 23 June 1878 Hempstead County, Arkansas Amos Melvin MOUSER born 1859 son of David and Margaret Ann KIRK-MOUSER buried Grayson, Louisiana
Children:
Standing left to right: John Morgan May (Scottie's husband) Les Purtell and wife,
Ziddie Purtell Wilson and Lois Purtell
sitting: Scottie Lou Purtell May, George Mike Purtell (Scottie's father) and Annis Purtell Mullins
SALLY BETHANY (THENA) ROSS PURTELL
Sally Bethany (Thena) daughter of John and Annis Mae GALLOWAY ROSS
Born 16 March 1861 Hempstead County, Arkansas died 31 Nov 1933; buried Ross Cemetery; married 14 Oct 1880 George Mike PURTELL born 14 Oct 1860 son of Jesse Monroe and Mary E. McMILLON PURTELL died 2 Aug 1942 buried Ross Cemetery.
Children 11:
ELIZA (LIZA) C. ROSS STEWART
Eliza C. daughter of John and Annis Mae GALLOWAY ROSS
Born 25 Jan 1863 Hempstead County married Teague (Tige) G.(Golden) STEWART 1 Feb 1880
Lisa died 1891 and Tige died 1917 are both buried Ross Cemetery
Children:
Andrew WILSON and Lucinda Ellen ROSS HAMILTON
Children left to right are John, Jessie Martin, Nathaniel Monroe, Dove, Andrew Wilson (Dock). Between parents is Mike Purtell, Mollie Ann on Mother’s lap 1902
LUCINDA ELLEN ROSS HAMILTON
Lucinda Ellen daughter of John and Annis Mae GALLOWAY ROSS.
Born 3 Aug 1864 Shover Springs died 11 April 1906 buried Billstown Cemetery
married 20 Jan 1884 to Andrew Wilson HAMILTON son of Silas Monroe and Elby Annie ANDREWS died 27 September 1921 Center Point.
Children:
JOHN ROSS, JR.
John son of John and Annis Mae GALLOWAY ROSS
born 3 June 1866 died 14 May 1945 buried in Ross Cemetery married 30 May 1888 Martha (Mattie) Alice GENTRY daughter of Miles Joshua and Annis Lenora deBobode BELL GENTRY; born 3 January 1870 died 6 June 1919. 2 married Lena POLK CLOUD died 4 March 1944.
CHILDREN :
In 1900 niece Odessa STEWART is with them she was born May 1887 John ROSS, Jr. raised his family near Washington, Hempstead County, Arkansas.
HARRISON MOUSER ROSS
Harrison Mouser son of John and Annis Mae GALLOWAY ROSS.
Born 19 Jan 1868 (twin/ Scott) died 26 Aug 1949 buried Ross Cemetery married 23 Feb 1888 Lucy (Annie) WISE born 19 Jan 1872 Henderson, Kentucky daughter of John F. and Sallie ARNOLD-WISE.
CHILDREN :
SCOTT ALBERT ROSS
Scott A. (twin) son of John and Annis Mae GALLOWAY ROSS.
Born 19 Jan 1868 died 25 June 1903 buried Ross Cemetery; married 18 Oct 1891 Dora MAY daughter of Ben Franklin and Catherine EDMONDSON MAY born 10 Dec 1872 died 1953. buried Oak Grove; married 2nd Charlie JACKSON.
CHILDREN:
IRISH BLESSING
May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
May the rains fall soft upon your fields,
and until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of his hand
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