Sandy, The only Ross I can find associated with the Blue Ridge Community (which never had a post office) is D. M. Ross. Blue Ridge Baptist Church Messengers to the associational meetings were: 1886-- G. W. Herrington, W. F. Stevenson, Christopher Columbus Powell, and D. M. Ross >From funeral records (I indexed the funeral records from the local funeral home from 1956 through 1993) it appears that D. M. Ross could have been David Marion Ross who died in 1912. Two children of David Marion Ross and his wife Charlotte Ellen Clark were Minerva Elizabeth Ross Havens, b. 6-21-1867 and d. 8-19-1956 and Arthur Wayne Ross, b. 1-20-1877, and 11-28-1958. Ray and I have indexed marriage records from the earliest surviving court house fires through 1951 and while there were some Ross marriages, none of the given names started with the letter M--which appears to be the naming pattern for your Ross family. My Grisham family arrived at Blue Ridge in 1880, my Fergussons in 1890, and my Striblings and Crains in 1907, so we do have some information about the community. Personally I do not remember a Ross family's living at Blue Ridge. Sandy, I will send a copy of my response and your query to the Hamilton County List. Perhaps someone else is familiar with your Ross family. You may also post your query to the Hamilton County County GenWeb GenConnect Query Board at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txhamilt/main.htm There is a Blue Ridge, TX, in Collin County. Since the Blue Ridge community in Hamilton County never had a post office, could your ancestors have lived in Collin County? When I checked the USGS listings for Blue Ridge in TX there were several listings-- http://mapping.usgs.gov:8888/gnis/owa/gnisquery?f_name=Blue+Ridge&v ariant=N&f_state=TX&f_cnty=&f_type=&pop1=&pop2=&elev1=&elev2=&cell= &tab=y Have a Merry Christmas, and remember the true reason for the season. http://members.aol.com/hipychic14/Birthday.html Elreeta Crain Weathers ecw@htcomp.net http://www.htcomp.net/ecw/main.htm Elreeta's home page about Hamilton County http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/1789/ Miss Ann's Home Page http://www.rootsweb.com/~txhamilt/main.htm Hamilton County, TX GenWeb http://www.htcomp.net/rrw/main.htm Ray's homepage http://www.ionet.net/~dgordons/crystal.htm Crystal Tears ---------- > From: SANDIBUTC@aol.com > To: ecw@htcomp.net > Subject: Ross in Blue Ridge, TX > Date: Friday, December 18, 1998 10:14 AM > > Hello, my name is Sandy. > > Your husband Ray gave me your e-mail. He only referred to you as his wife so don't have your first name. He siad you knew Blue Ridge, TX very well. I am doing my family genealogy, the Ross clan. I was wondering if you might have any info about any Rosses. I have been told that in 1900 my ggrandparents were in Blue Ridge, Tx. His name was John William Ross and Wife Matilda Jane. They had 9 children. Marvin, Minnie, Martha, Merrill, Medegorda, Infant, Marion, Mead and Mary. I have alot more full names and dates if you need them. John and Matilda were married in Cooke County TX 9 June 1879. Matildas parents were Jonas A Puntch and Susan Rhodes and I think that maybe they could have been in that area at that time also. Thank you so much for you time to respond to this. Sandy Butcher