Biography of T T Ross, Greene Co, AR

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Submitted by: Michael Brown
        Date: 5 Sep 1998
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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas

page 169

Few men have attained greater prominence in Greene County, in a social as
well as business point of view, than has Mr. Ross, who by his pleasant and
courteous manner has made many friends and built up a successful trade. He
was born in Kentucky, in 1826, and is the son of Caleb and Alifal
(Hutchison) Ross, and the grandson of William Ross, who was born in
Maryland, and came to Kentucky at an early day. Caleb Ross was also a
native of Maryland, and was there married to Miss Hutchison. T. T. Ross
left his native State in 1873, emigrating to Greene County, Ark., and
locating on a farm two miles north of where Marmaduke is now standing. This
land he opened up and improved eighty acres, erected buildings and remained
on the same for about five years, when he [p.169] sold out and moved to the
village of Marmaduke. Here he has since been engaged in merchandising, and
has built up a good trade. He has a convenient, substantial building for
that purpose, two stories high, the upper portion of which is used for a
dwelling. He was married, in Kentucky, to Miss Martha Coles Otey, who died,
leaving two children: C. H., who resides in Greene County, married, and the
father of two children; and Susan, who married L. C. Harvey, a farmer of
Greene County, and has two children. Mr. Ross was married to the sister of
his first wife, Miss Elizabeth Otey, and they are the parents of three
children: Frances Orlena, wife of James Stone, resides one and a half miles
from Marmaduke and has four children; Margaret A., wife of A. B. Harvey, is
living in Marmaduke and keeps the hotel, also being engaged in farming, and
has five children; and W. A., a merchant of Marmaduke. Mr. Ross is a member
of the Masonic fraternity, and Evergreen Lodge of the I. O. O. F. He has
been a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church since eighteen years of
age.