Brief Life History of Audy Shelton
When Audy Shelton Ross was born on 5 May 1909, in Big Flat, Baxter, Arkansas, United States, his father, William Claude Ross, was 28 and his mother, Lillie Belle DePriest, was 24. He married Velma Evelyn McGowen on 3 June 1941, in Searcy, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Hollister Judicial Township, San Benito, California, United States in 1940 and Saint Joe, Searcy, Arkansas, United States in 1941. He died on 8 August 1994, in Waynesville, Pulaski, Missouri, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Silver Hill Cemetery, Silver Hill, Searcy, Arkansas, United States.
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- Audie H Ross, "United States 1950 Census"
- Andy Ross, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
- Audy Shelton Ross, "California, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1945"
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1910 · The BSA is Made
Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.
1910 · Angel Island Serves Immigrants
Angel Island served as a western entry point for hundreds of thousands of U.S. immigrants, mainly from China, from 1910 to 1940.
1932
Amelia Earhart completes first solo nonstop transatlantic flight by a woman.
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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