Cynthia Ross appears on record for the first time in the 1850Atwater, Portage Co., Ohio census, living at the home of John and Nancy Whittlesey. it is known that her father William died in 1857. it is presumed that her mother died before him. I have never found any record on Cynthia's parents beyond a note regarding William's funeral, written in Cynthia's husband's diary, Cynthia's death certificate, which says her parents were William Ross of Massachusetts and Cynthia Ross of Massachusetts, and two census records of the younger Cynthia's, one which states her parents were born in Massachusetts, the other which states they were born in Connecticut. as these census's were the 1900 and the 1910, there is no shifting county boundery problem-yet I cannot seem to find these Ross's anywhere. I also can't figure the Whitlesey connection, nor can I find out why Cynthia isn't with her parents on the 1850 census-much less where they were. perhaps that is when her mother died. Also, I have yet to find a tombstone for them, and John Pearson's (Cynthia's husband) family did not have tombstones. so maybe Cynthia's didn't, either.