ROSS, Melvin

1842 - 1920  (78 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	ROSS, Melvin
  Birth	26 Sep 1842	Dyer, Gibson, Tennessee, United States
  Gender	Male
  WAC	22 Jun 1874	EHOUS
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
  Death	29 Nov 1920	American Falls, Power, Idaho, United States
  Burial	2 Dec 1920	Shelton, Jefferson, Idaho, United States
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  Person ID	I20140	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Family ID

  F10673

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  Family 1	SMITH, Julia Elizabeth ,   b. 29 Jul 1847, Cartersville, Pottawatomie, Iowa, United States Cartersville, Pottawatomie, Iowa, United Statesd. 28 Oct 1878, Leamington, Millard, Utah, United States (Age 31 years)
  Marriage	18 Nov 1861	Heber City, Wasatch, Utah, United States
  Family ID	F10672	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

  Family 2	HADDEN, Mary Ellen ,   b. 10 Oct 1861, Parawan, Iron, Utah, United States Parawan, Iron, Utah, United Statesd. 19 Dec 1925, Twin Falls, Twin Falls, Idaho, United States (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	18 Jul 1879	Learnington, Millard, Utah
  Family ID	F10664	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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• Notes

  THE LIFE STORY OF MELVIN ROSS (1842-1920) Most of this manuscript is in the words of Melvin Ross. Information after his death in 1920 was added by his daughter Julia Ross Radford Spracher and other family members. This draft was rewritten in typescript in 1966 by Sarah R. T. Morris. In 2003 Leon Pitman did some light editing and added some clarifying words in brackets. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * [Andrew] Jackson Ross was born in Guilford Co. North Carolina 15 September 1814 [Another record says 1820]. On 21 Sept., 1838 he married Lear (Leah) Smith in Dyer County, Tennessee. She had been born 30 Nov. 1822 to parents, Richard Smith and Dianah Braswell. Their home was blessed with a baby boy, James Richard Ross, born on 18 Nov 1839 in Dyer County, Tennessee. Their second son, Melvin Ross, was born 24 Sep 1842, also in Dyer County, Tennessee. When Richard was three and Melvin a one year old, their father, [Andrew] Jackson Ross, was killed when thrown from a load of timber, while coming down out of the Tennessee Mountains in 1843. This left Leah Smith Ross a mother and widow, along with her two small sons, to mourn his loss. (Continued in this manuscript are Melvin's children and family members. see http://seldomseensheep.tripod.com/morganfamilypioneerheritage/id41.html for full account) The following commentary added by Rebecca Freeman, 2003: 1. Melvin's father was Andrew Jackson Ross, not Jackson Ross, though he may have been called Jackson. 2. He was born in Guildford County, North Carolina, not Pottawattamie. 3. Melvin's mother was Rachel Leah Smith, called Leah, not Lear. 4. When the family left to cross the plains, they didn't go to Tennessee, Alabama, Ohio and Mississippi. The Smith and Ross families lived in Tennessee, north of Alabama. At some times the area was claimed by both Tennessee and Alabama, but when they were there it was Tennessee. When they left Tennessee they went up the Mississippi River to Nauvoo. The closest they ever came to Ohio was passing the junction where the Ohio River joined the Mississippi. After leaving Nauvoo, they crossed the Mississippi River to Sugar Creek Iowa, then they went to Agency, Wapello County, Iowa, then to Mt. Pisgah, Harrison County, Iowa, then to Shirts, Pottawatamie County Iowa, then on to Utah. There was never time or place for them to travel to Tennesse, Alabama and Ohio. 5. In 1850 John W Radford and Leah and her parents Richard and Diana Smith, three of her brothers, Ephriam, James and William Smith and Thomas and Rachel Ross and Melvin and Rebecca Ross crossed the plains in the Life Everett's Fifty of the Aaron Johnson company. They left Kanesville, Iowa 12 June 1850 and arrived in Salt Lake, 12 Sept 1850.