(going back 7 generations to Northern Ireland)
Family mottos: “Think on” “Virtue, have virtue”
“Floreat qui laborat” (“He prospers who labors”)
Scottish Ross tartan – one of more than a dozen
(Click on first name for Vitals; spousal surname for associated family)
James Ross (1811-1885)
“Miss” Martha Anderson (1810-after 1904)
I
Jane Ross (1837-1890)
Thomas Anderson Campbell (1837-1925)
I
William James Campbell (1859-1954)
Rachel Elizabeth Hoffman (1866-1946)
I
Bertha Ione Campbell (1893-1980)
Paul Barton Gray (1892-1977)
I
Ruth Elizabeth Gray (1917-2005)
Ralph Hill Pearce (1917-2002)
I
Larry Edsel Pearce (1948- )
Susan Kay Miller (1949- )
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Annie Rebecca Pearce Matthew Carter Pearce
(1971- ) (1973- )
DOCUMENTATION:
Sir John Bernard Burke. The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. London: Habeison & Sons, 1884
Bob Horton, e-mail, 28 Feb. 2009
“James Ross.” Find-a-Grave. # 61553120
Kirksville Cemetery, Adair Co., MO
http://www.kirksvillecity.com
Thomas Anderson Campbell deed, 1863
U.S. Federal Censuses 1840 & 1850, Public Member Family Trees, & other documents. Ancestry.com
Last revised: 3/11/17