Bobbie, in reply to your inquiry. THere are many COLE names in the index. Your Moses ROSS is mentioned 5 times, page 435, 436, 502, 594 and 601. The first reference is in 1810 when Moses Ross was elected county comissioner in 1804 in Jefferson County, then again in 1812 and 1813. There is a Moses Ross who was listed as an elder of the congregation in the United Presbyterian Church in Steubenville which was originally organized in 1810. Then there is a nice paragraph on Moses ROSS which I will quote for you: "Moses Ross was born in Chester county PA in 1772. In 1803 Moses, his brother Robert and their mother, removed to Jefferson county Ohio and located on the farm where his sons yet reside, in Island Creek township. In 1804 he married Elizabeth Ramsey who was born in 1782, by whom he reared nine children. He died in 1855. During the war of 1812 he was paymaster of a regiment. James and David Ross own the homestead. Our subject's father, John Ross was a captain in the Revolutionary war, and served all through that struggle for liberty under General Washington." Nice writeup, you are one of the lucky ones! THis is a very interesting book, but I have a very certain feeling there are many names that do not appear in the index, expecially names of women. One would have to read every page carefully to pick out women's names, and that would be an impossible task! Beryl