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Samuel Houston Ross

15 Apr 1854 – 19 Mar 1907

Birth15 Apr 1854
Death19 Mar 1907
CemeteryCottonwood Cemetery
Dallas , Dallas County , Texas , USA
Added byCam Thompson on 20 Jan 2010
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12551587

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Born in Iowa. Married Betty sometime in 1877. Although Sam Ross was an early settler in the Liberty Grove area, his house and part of his farm set in Rockwall County. Sam had been a trail driver before meeting Miss Betty Bright. It was after the Civil War that Sam hired on as a driver collecting $3 for each head that made it thru Indian territory and on to the railhead at Kansas. He had already made several trips down the Chisholm Trail when he met Betty who had traveled to Van Alstyne with her family at an early age. Sam and Betty's house was situated in an ideal location. There was plenty of good farmland with pasture on one side, endless acres of timber on the other side and one of the best springs in the whole county. That spring not only had the best water, but it also kept the milk and butter cool all summer long. You could always find arrowheads around that spring. No doubt that the Indians had camped there. Samuel Ross died at Liberty Grove from a heat stroke on March 19, 1907. He is buried at Cottonwood Cemetery. Pony Express Rider April 15, 1854 - March 19, 1907. "Sam" Ross began carrying mail on the Pony Express route up and down the Chisholm Trail sometime around 1872. He was born at Garvin, Tennessee on April 16, 1854. His parents were David (Sr.) and Elizabeth McClain Ross, both native of Scotland. He married Elizabeth Mary "Betty" Bright in Grayson County, Texas on April 10, 1878. Betty was born in Missouri on May 10, 1858, but had come to Van Alstyne, Texas at six years of age. Children of Sam and Betty Bright Ross were as follows: James "Jim" Handley, Infant, Harvey "Doc" Smith, Thomas Dewey, Douglan "Pike" Cleveland, Silas Wesley, Mary Eula, Joe Cobb, Tina Victoria, Ola Mae, and Sam Houston Ross. He died Tuesday, March 19, 1907 at his Dallas County home on Whiteley Road . He had been fighting a grass fire earlier in the day and died from a heat stroke.http://www.dallaspioneer.org/stories/pioneers.php?ID=52

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