James Ross

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹¹⁵⁶
The Ross family was originally from Scotland and came to Ireland at the time when emigration was being tempted by offers of land and other advantages.

Francis Ross, emigrant ancestor, was born near Londonderry, Ireland, in 1768, and died in America in 1859. He was the son of James Ross, a well-to-do farmer of Londonderry, whose entire life was passed in that section of Ireland. When Francis was a small boy, his older brother William left Ireland for the Americas. No trace of him was communicated to his friends in Ireland. He came to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and there settled and married. When Francis heard his father say of his younger brother James, that James it is and James it should be, he decided there was nothing left for him to do but emigrate, so he too stole his way for America.

~Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia, pp. 1065-1066