MY FATHER & MOTHER

Dad & Mother ~ Marguerite Emma (Clay) Knight Ross
Mother was b. Fayettevile, Arkansas (8/7/1901)
and d. Tahlequah, OKla. (2/8/1984)

Married May 17, 1942
Tahlequah, Oklahoma

MY PATERNAL GRANDFATHER

Robert Bruce Ross (Kuwiskuwi) aka "Uncle Bob"
(scroll to page 355)
b. Tahlequah, Indian Territory 8/13/1845
d. Park Hill, Okla. 5/12/1930

MY PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS

Fannie Daniel Thornton Ross & My Grandfather
she was b. Marble City, Indian Territory (11/17/1847)
d. Park Hill, Okla.12/31/1928)

Married December 25, 1867 (61 yrs & 1 week)
Tahlequah, Indian Territory

MY PATERNAL GREAT GRANDFATHER

William Allen Ross (Yonulesodu)
b. Cherokee Nation East (12/26/1817)
d. Park Hill, Indian Territory (4/21/1891)
m. Jennie Fields c. 1835
b. Cherokee Nation East (11/5/1818)
d. Tahlequah, Indian Territory (9/12/1877)

MY PATERNAL GREAT-GREAT
GRANDFATHER

John Ross (Kuwiskuwi)
Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1828-1866)
(He served longer than any Principal Chief, nearly 40 years)
b. Turkeytown, Alabama (10/3/1790)
d. Washington, D.C. (8/1/1866)
m1. Quatie (Brown) Henley, New Echota, Georgia (c. 1813)
b. c. 1791 - Cherokee Nation East
d. 2/1/1839 - Arkansas River near Little Rock, Arkansas
m2. Mary Brian Stapler (9/2/1844)
b. Wilmington, Delaware (2/10/1826)
d. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (7/20/1865)

MY PATERNAL GREAT-GREAT-GREAT
GRANDFATHER

Daniel Ross
b. Sutherlandshire, Scotland (7/14/1760)
d. Ross' Landing, Tennessee (5/22/1830)
m. Mary "Mollie" McDonald
Hamilton County, Tennessee 1786
(First recorded marriage in Hamilton County)
b. North Georgia (11/1/1770 )
d. Ross' Landing, Tennessee (11/5/1808)