This is one of my brick walls. I have been unable to trace the Ross family either in Ohio or on the east coast, even though there is a related Azariah Ross (that should stick out like a sore thumb, but the only Azariah Ross I can trace came from New York. maybe they're one and the same, but I just can't dig up enough info on them to be sure of anything. hope someone has an idea of how to find people who leave no real trail-tombstones don't talk, and nothing else exists for them-in fact, William and Cynthia have no tombstones, only a mention in a death certificate. (CT or MA) Unk. Ross b. abt 1765 | (Summit Co.? OH) | (Portage Co., OH) |-----------------------------------------------------| unk. Ross (Colchester, England) William Ross unk. spouse Joseph & Hannah Smith Cross Cynthia Ross | | | Mary Ross William Cross Cynthia Ross Ira Bunnell Elizabeth Atkinson John Y. Pearson | | | | | (Stark Co., OH) | |-------------------------- | | | | | | Geo. Bunnell-Mary Jane Cross James F Cross-Stella Pearson from what I know of this family from sources as varied as census records, family papers and vital records-sources in parenthasis; Bunnell/Ross relationship to the Ross/Pearson line (family papers & marriage records) William Ross was b. about 1795 in CT or MA. died in Jan/Feb 1857. his funeral was held in Stark Co., OH (family diary, daughter's census records) Cynthia Ross, Sr. was b. in CT or MA and may have had the maiden name of Ross (daughter's census records, daughter's death certificate) Mary Ross b. abt 1821 in Ohio (census records) Ira Bunnell b. abt 1821 in Ohio (census records) Ira and Mary's marriage (Summit Co. OH m. record) George Bunnell(e) b. (Bible record) Mary Jane Cross b. (family papers) George and Mary's m. (Summit Co. OH m. record) Joseph and Hannah's m. (Colchester, England Wesleyan Methodist Church records) William and Elizabeth's m. (William's Civil War pension records) personal knowledge of Helen Matthew Cross, a daughter of James Franklin Cross and Stella Morn Pearson