Greene-Jefferson County IN Archives Biographies.....Ross, J. A. M. 1818 - 
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Author: Goodspeed (1884)

   J. A. M. ROSS. Among the pioneer families of Indiana was that of Hugh S. and
Sarah (Miller) Ross, who removed from Kentucky, their native State, to Indiana
previous to the Territory being admitted into the sisterhood of States. Hugh S.
Ross served his country faithfully in the war of 1812, and on his removal from
Kentucky settled on Clarke's grant or what is now Clarke County, Ind. J. A. M.
Ross was born in Jefferson County, Ind., in the year 1818, and when five years
old came with his parents to Greene County, where he has ever since resided. He
began farming for himself when twenty-three years old, but afterward engaged in
school teaching, which profession he followed for thirty years with the best of
success. One of the important epochs connected with his life and one that will
seem incredible to the rising generation, was his paying for forty acres of good
land in Stafford Township with the proceeds derived from the sale of coon skins
captured in two months. Mr. Ross is one of the few remaining of our old pioneers
and is universally respected. He owns valuable property in Greene County and a
substantial brick residence in Lyons. He was married in 1841 to Miss Charlotte
Hail, who came with her parents from Virginia to Greene County, Ind., in 1828.
Eight children have blessed their union, only the following named yet living:
George T., John M., Charles H., Sarah E. and Irene. In politics, Mr. Ross is a
Democrat, as was also his father before him, and for the past forty-five years
he and wife have been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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Washington Township Biographies

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HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES,
STATE OF INDIANA,
FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED.

CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS. & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1884.

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