BIO:  Ross, J.A.M.

Submitted by:  ivie@tima.com   (Diana Flynn)

ROSS,   MILLER,   HAIL

"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF
INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC." CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS.
& CO.,  PUBLISHERS. 1884.

GREENE CO., IN.
WASHINGTON TWP.
PAGE 427
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 aacres 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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