Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Ross, Charles 1831 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

CHARLES ROSS, farmer, P. O. Flat Rock, born October 14, 1831, in Washington
County, Penn., son of Matthew Ross, born in County Antrim, Ireland; he married
Anna McFadden, born in same county; both are living and over eighty-four years
old. Mr. Ross was educated in Pennsylvania; from there he went to Ohio, where he
was married to Sarah J. Archer, born October 12, 1830, in Virginia, daughter of
Ebenezer and Margaret (McCray) Archer. Mrs. Ross is the mother of one daughter,
Margaret N., born June 27, 1855. Mr. Ross came to this county in 1866; he owns
now a good productive farm of eighty acres of fine land. Mrs. and Miss Ross are
members of the United Presbyterian Church. Mr. Ross is identified with the
Republican party. Mr. Ross was a soldier in the late war, serving in the Eighty
-eighth Regiment of Ohio Infantry. He is a man well spoken of by all his
neighbors, and is one of our most industrious and kind-hearted citizens.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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