Anyone claim either one of these Stephen Ross' ?? Audrey Ashe Co, NC marriage records groom/ admin bride / witness date/witness or clerk May, John Powes, Nancy 12/13/1856 1,3 Stephen Ross Reuben Sexton Robt. Gambill then from http://www.ls.net/~newriver/nrv/Paula_Anderson-Green.htm THE NEW RIVER FRONTIER SETTLEMENT ON THE VIRGINIA-NORTH CAROLINA BORDER 1760-1820 by Paula Hathaway Anderson-Green* Published in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, V86: pgs. 413-431 (1978). This electronic version prepared by Paul B. Anderson FCCS (USN, Retired), Norfolk, Virginia Rev. Stephen B. Ross (born 1800) was a well-known minister in Grayson Co., VA. He was the son Joseph Ross, who was the son of Rev. George Ross (not certain which was the pioneer in Grayson). Stephen Ross married in 1818 to Elizabeth Anderson; their son Joseph married Luzenia Anderson (daughter of John and Feraby Cornett Anderson). Fields' text, re the Flatridge community, states that Joe Ross had a grist mill on Panther Creek (no date). (Which Joe Ross, father or son of Stephen? probably the son). Stephen R. was buried on Kyle Anderson's farm in the Rockbridge community. Scottish name. F. B. Kegley identifies Ross as Scots-Irish (Sayers, 211). Contact Virginia Smith, Mercersburg, PA for more information. Jacob and John Anderson are on the 1781 militia list (Mont. Co.); James A. is on the 1783 list. On the Mont. Co. taxpayer list are these Andersons: William, Peter, James, Isaac, Thomas, Jacob, John, Cornelius, and George. According to family tradition Jacob and John were brothers; in the 1820 U.S. Census, Grayson Co., VA, Jacob states he was born in NJ (probably the Delaware River Valley). The brothers settled near Middle Fox Creek circa 1780. John left a will written 07 Jan 1826, probated 1830, naming wife Mary and children, Nancy, Milley, Elizabeth, George, Isaac, William, Joseph, and Jonathan. Elizabeth and her husband Reverend Stephen B. Ross (married 12 Mar 1818) inherited the homeplace. Descendants have been traced through William (married Catherine Walling) and Isaac (married Elizabeth Parks). [Edited by PBA] No will has been found for Jacob, but he and wife Susannah had a son, John, who married Feraby Cornett; they are buried at their homesite, on the original grant, the Garnett Anderson place, Rt. 658. Jacob's daughter; Rebecca, married John Hash, and another daughter, Nancy, married William Hash. Other issue of Jacob and Susannah probably included Thomas, Peter, and Jacob Jr. Peter later went to Hancock Co., TN. Maj. James Anderson of Albemarle Co., VA, who came to the New River, married Martha (Patsy) Nuckolls, daughter of John Nuckolls, an early settler in the Grayson area. James might be a brother to Jacob and John; family journeys often started from PA/NJ on the Wagon Road with stop-overs in counties along the way, such as Albemarle. Patsy and James A. reared a family near Galax and are buried in the Anderson cemetery there (Nuckolls, 67). Family discussed in Nuckolls text.