Margaret Frances Ross

Brief Life History of Margaret Frances

When Margaret Frances Ross was born on 25 January 1870, in Braymer, Caldwell, Missouri, United States, her father, James T. Ross, was 32 and her mother, Elizabeth Jane Davis, was 29. She married Oliver Perry Morton Barron on 22 February 1888, in Caldwell, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Davis Township, Caldwell, Missouri, United States in 1870. She died on 1 May 1922, in Hill Township, Carroll, Missouri, United States, at the age of 52, and was buried in Enon Church Cemetery, McKenzie, Carroll, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

Oliver Perry Morton Barron
1866–1905
Margaret Frances Ross
1870–1922
Marriage: 22 February 1888
Ernest Edward Barron
1889–1965
Everett James Russell Barron
1891–1969
Verna Viola Victoria Barron
1893–1986

Sources (11)

  • Marget Jones in household of Danil Jones, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Margaret F Ross, "Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991"
  • Margaret F Ross Jones, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1872 · The First National Park

Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.

1872 · The Amnesty Act

A federal law which reversed most of the penalties on former Confederate soldiers by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Act affected over 150,000 troops that were a part of the Civil War.

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

Name Meaning

Scottish: habitational name from one or other of a number of Scottish and English places called Ross or Roos(e), especially Roose (Lancashire) and Roos (East Yorkshire). The placenames derive from a British ancestor of Welsh rhos ‘moor, heath, plain’, which is the sense of the cognate Gaelic word ros. The Scottish surname has at least three origins. First, the Anglo-Norman family from Roos (East Yorkshire) was introduced to Scotland when Robert of Roos, lord of Wark Castle (Northumberland), married Isabella, an illegitimate daughter of King William the Lion. Second, various families took the name from the province of Ross in northern Scotland and other places of that name. Third, there were Norman families in Scotland by the 13th century who probably derived their name from Rots in Normandy (see 2 below). The descendants of Godfrey de Ros, tenant of the de Morville lords of Cunninghame, were major landholders in Ayrshire, and almost certainly took their name from Rots. The Rose family of Kilravock (Nairnshire) may take their name from either of these three (see Rose ). The lairds of Balnagown adopted the surname Ross after the earldom of Ross (to which they considered themselves rightful heirs) had passed into other hands through the female line.

English (of Norman origin): habitational name from Rots in Calvados (France), probably named with the ancient Germanic element rod ‘clearing’ (compare Rhodes ). This was the original home of a family de Ros, who were established in Kent in 1130 and had major estates in Kent until well into the 13th century.

English: habitational name from Wrose, in Shipley, near Bradford (Yorkshire), with re-spelling of Wr- as R- due to the loss of /w/ before /r/ in early modern English pronunciation. The spelling Wrose is no longer current. The placename derives from Old English wrāse ‘knot, something twisted’, referring to the steep-sided hill on which the settlement stands, with the sense ‘broken or twisting hill’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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