ROSS, SARAH

b. January 12, 1777 d. May 23, 1810 in Harrison Co., (West) Virginia
married Bef. February 17, 1800 probably in Harrison Co., (W)VA
Humphrey Faris b. January 30, 1773 in PA d. March 1, 1853, Harrison Co. (W)VA

Descendants of John Ross, Sr.
and
Martha Pembroke

In Blue: From Brenda Weatherly, The Jones Family on the internet at ancestry.com
In Red: My assertions

1 John (Sr.) Ross 1712 - 1776
b: December 12, 1712 in Richhill, Armagh, Ireland
d: January 06, 1776 in Cheat River, Greene, Pa
.... +Martha Pembroke - 1781 b: in Cardigan, Wales d: May 1781 in Cheat River, Greene, Pa

......... 2 John (Jr.) Ross 1739 - 1799
b: 1739 in Donegal, Ireland
Marriage in Harrison Co, WV on May 1, 1764 (See below: near Philadelpia, Pennsylvania 3 months after they came to this country.)
d: November 03, 1799 in Greene, PA
............... +Jane Ann James - 1799 b: in Wales d: 1799 in PA?

......................... 3 Meshac Ross 1764 - 1785
………………….. b: Aft. 1764 in PA d: Bef. 1785 in PA
.......................... +Elinor Jones 1773 - b: Bet. 1773 - 1783
Meshac, John and Alexander Ross in the 1810 Harrison Co. (W)VA Census are listed next to each other and Humphrey Faris (Sarah Ross' husband). Perhaps this is Meshac and he didn't die bef. 1785 in PA.
............................... 4 Anna Ross 1801 - 1881 b: December 23, 1801 d: July 05, 1881
...................................... +James Jones 1788 - 1856 b: March 09, 1788 d: April 20, 1856

………………….3 Robert

……………….....3 William

……………….…3 John
Meshac, John and Alexander Ross in the 1810 Harrison Co. (W)VA Census listed next to each other and Humphrey Faris (Sarah Ross' husband).

………………….3 Mary

………………….3 Enoch

………………….3 HANNAH ROSS b. June 16, 1773 d. February 2, 1854 Green Co., PA
................................married in Greene Co., PA on June 23, 1796
............................... JAMES Shelby b. November 22, 1772, d. November 11, 1845 Greene Co., PA

…………………..3 Sarah b. January 12, 1777 d. May 23, 1810 Harrison Co., (W)VA
Humphrey Farris (Sarah's husband) is listed alongside Meshac, John and Alexander Ross in the 1810 Harrison Co. (W)VA Census

…………………..3 Alexander
Humphrey Farris (Sarah's husband) is listed alongside Meshac, John and Alexander Ross in the 1810 Harrison Co. (W)VA Census

…………………..3 Isaac

………………….3 Alexander

………………….3 David

………………….3 Jane

From: The Jones Family by Brenda Weatherly at ancestry.com:
My notation: This is referring to
John Ross, JR.

Private John Ross in Capt Andrew Swearingen's Company of Westmoreland Co, Pa. Rangers on the Frontier in the Mexican War.
Marriage in Harrison Co, WV on May 1, 1764.

"The history of John Ross, one of the early settlers of Green County, Pennsylvania. Told to me by my Grandmother, Rachel Bowel Ross, widow of David Ross.

John Ross was born in Ireland. His wife was a native of Wales: her name was Jane Ann James. Three months after they landed in this country, they were married in, or near, Philadelphia Pennsylvania. I do not remember the exact date, but it was before the Revolutionary war.

They came to what is now Green County, Pennsylvania, on Dunkard Creek: about four miles from the mouth they built a cabin and cleared some land. Five children had been born to them.

There came word one evening that the Indians were camping, killing and spreading destruction. They had two cows, and each of them had a calf. They drove them deep into the woods. They had two horses. They fastened a pannier, which was a kind of basket, to either side of a saddle, put a small boy in each pouch and on in the saddle. The mother was mounted on the other one with a babe in her arms and a child behind her.

The one in her lap was her daughter, Hannah, who afterward married James Shelby, and was the mother the Shelby family of Green County, Pennsylvania.

No roads then, only a path through the woods. The father walked beside his family with his dog and gun.

When they got to the river, near what is now Wolf's Cemetery, they was the Indians dancing in a sugar camp just below them. They went to a crossing about a mile below the mouth of Cheat River, about half way between Dilliner's upper and lower ferries: but the river had risen too high to ride it.

Grandfather swam one of his horses across the river to what is now the Fayette county side of the Monongahela River. He found a canoe, in which he ferried his family across, the other horse swimming behind the canoe. They went to Fort Gaddis, ten miles in Fayette county Pennsylvania.

The Indians passed then, but did them no harm. It was the month of June. They sent out detachments of men to work the corn from the Fort: the rest of the men standing guard around the fields with guns.

So this is some of the trying times that my great grandparents passed through.

They had a large family of children four of the children went to what is now Harrison County, West Virginia. Grandfather owned a large tract of land near Clarksburg, West Virginia. One son married and lived in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He had a son Robert. His grandsons, Robert and Carson, now own the old homestead in Green County, Pennsylvania."

Birthdates and places are unknown, but the names of John Ross's other children are: Robert, William, John, Mary, Enoch, Hannah, Meshac, Sarah, Alexander, Isaac, David, and Jane. This information was written by Owen Morgan Jones before his death in 1926.