This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------FCA4A23F2095E2F1A24CAB48 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- Patricia McKee Bauer <[email protected]> I'm webmaster for: http://www.ccgs-wa.org (CCGS) http://www.c4ca.org (Cultural Arts) http://blackwells2.homestead.com (Blackwell Family) http://patbauer.homestead.com (Family Tree) http://www.pacifier.com/~patbauer (Reunions) --------------FCA4A23F2095E2F1A24CAB48 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="Daniel2.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Daniel2.txt" This info is about Daniel Ross - the father of John Ross Cherokee Chief. It is from the book of that name. Page 5: In 1788 Daniel Ross moved with his father-in-law to Turkey Town on the Coosa River near present-day Center, Alabama, where he continued to trade with the Cherokees. Two years later, on October 3, 1790, Mollie's third child was born and named John after his grandfather. Daniel and Mollie reared a family of nine children; the two girls who preceded John were Jane and Elizabeth; the other children in succession were Lewis, Susan, Andrew, Annie, Margaret and Maria. From Turkey Town they moved to Willstown, one of the largest settlements of the Cherokees, then to Chickamauga, and finally to the northern end of the Lookout Mountain range at present-day Chattanooga. At the base of the mountain near the cool spring of Saint Elmo, Daniel Ross constructed a sturdy log house where he remained until John Ross's manhood. McDonald moved to a house built about 1797, one only about three miles southeast of the Ross house. In a few years, possibly about 1808 after the death of his mother, John Ross moved to the McDonald home and remained there off and on until about 1827. In time the area became known as Rossville, and young Ross continued to make improvements on the two-storied log house which still stands in reconstructed form at Rossville, Georgia. These various localities might give someone a hint or a connection to the famous John Ross. Good luck! --------------FCA4A23F2095E2F1A24CAB48--