PORTRAIT AND BIOG. ALBUM OF VERMILION CO.:IN 1832 MR. McCRAY(SAMUEL) CAME
WITH HIS FATHER TO CLINTON COUNTY, IN. HE FARMED THERE UNTIL HIS DEATH IN
1849 AT THE AGE OF 55 YEARS. HIS WIFE DIED AT THE HOME OF MRS. ROSS. THEY
WERE THE PARENTS OF TEN CHILDREN: JOHN C., MARY E., JAMES R., GEORGE G.,
SUSANE., NANCY E., MARTHA, AND SAMUEL. TWO DIED IN INFANCY UNNAMED.. MRS
ROSS (SUSAN) IS THE ONLY ONE OF THIS LARGE FAMILY NOW LIVING.
JOHN AND JAMES ENLISTED DURING THE WAR OF THE REBELLION AND JOHN WAS
SHOT AT MURFREESBORO, WHERE HE DIED, WHILE JAMES WAS DROWNED IN THE MISSOURI
RIVER ON HIS WAY TO THE FIELD OF BATTLE.
MRS. ROSS WAS BORN OCT. 17 1831 IN ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, VA. HER EARLY
DAYSIN HER NATIVE COUNTY WERE SPENT ON HER FATHER'S FARM AND SHE RECEIVED NO
SCHOOLING UNTIL SHE CAME TO INDIANA. ON MARCH 9, 1851 SHE WAS MARRIED TO
JOHN ROSS, WHO WAS BORN IN BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO AND CAME TO INDIANA IN AN EARLY
DAY WITH HIS PARENTS. HE CONTRACTED HIS FIRST MARRIAGE ON FEB. 11, 1838, THE
BRIDE BEING REBECCA C. DAVIS. AFTER HIS SECOND MARRIAGE MR. AND MRS ROSS
LIVED ON A FARM IN INDIANA FOR A YEAR AND A HALF, ANDD IN THE EARLY PART OF
1856 HE AND HIS WIFE REMOVED TO ILLINOIS, SETTLING ON THE BANKS OF THE LITTLE
VERMILION RIVER. THEY LIVED WITH MR. ROSS'S BROTHER UNTIL THEIR HOUSE ON
THEIR PRESENT FARM WAS COMPLETED AND IN THIS HOUSE MR. ROSS LIVED UNTIL THE
DAY OF HIS DEATH AND MRS. ROSS HAS CONTINUED TO RESIDE THERE SINCE.
THEY BECAME THE PARENTS OF TEN CHILDREN: REBECCA J.; MARY E.; MARTHA A.;
SAMUEL J., WHO DIED AT THE AGE OF ELEVEN MONTHS; ALMEDA; TWO INFANTS WHO
DIED;JOHN AND WILLIAM, TWINS, THE LATER DYING AT THE AGE OF TWO YEARS AND SIX
MONTH, AND ELIZABETH. REBECCA MARRIED GEORGE W. HUFFMAN. SHE DIED IN 1875
LEAVING TWO BOYS: WELDON G. AND CHARLES C. MARY E. IS THE WIFE OF
W.D.BRADFIELD WHO IS NOW IN CHARGE OF THE ROSS FARM. THEY OWN A FARM IN
KANSAS. MARTHA A. MARRIED ISAAC M. CUNDIFF, A RESIDENT OF SAUNDERS COUNTY,
NEB. THEY HAVE THREE CHILDREN: L. LESTER, ORVILLE AND ELIZABETH. ALMEDA
MARRIED J. W. McCOY OF WYANDOTTE, KANSAS. THEY HAVE ONE CHILD--CLARENCE D.
JOHN IS A STUDENT AT GALESBURG, ILL AND GRADUATED IN JUNE, 1889. ELIZABETH
ISTHE WIFE OF JOHN D. DANIELS, A TEACHER RESIDING AT ARCHIE.
.........MR. ROSS DIED APRIL 5 1877. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE MASONIC
FRATERNITY AND A MAN OF MOST EXCELLENT CHARACTER AND IS REMEMBERED AS ONE OF
THE KINDEST MEN IN THIS COMMUNITY. HE WAS COMMONLY CALLED "UNCLE JOHN". HE
AND HIS WIFE EARLY JOINED THE CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Music by
Barry Taylor, Victoria, B.C, Canada
