John Clarke Ross

b. 3 February 1841, d. 1 October 1925
  • John Clarke Ross was associated with Lachlan Ross grieve/bailiff for Alexander Clarke at Eriboll, Durness, for whom he named his son John Clarke Ross.
  • John Clarke Ross was born on 3 February 1841 in Scotland He was aage 4 months in the 1841 Eriboll census.
  • He appears in the 1861 census at Kylestrome, near Scourie, as a 20-year-old groom, the only servant of William Gunn.
  • He married Jane (?) say 1865.
  • John Clarke Ross and Jane (?) arrived circa 1867, accompanied by (?) Ross.
  • John Clarke Ross arrived in the Port of Galveston on 5 February 1867, accompanied by Jane (?) from Liverpool aboard the ship Havelock. He is identified on the passenger manifest as J. C. Rose, age 35, a farmer. The next passenger listed is Jane Rose, age 33. John's brother William was traveling on the same ship.
  • John Clarke Ross became a widower at the say 1869 death of his wife Jane (?)
  • John Clarke Ross appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas.
  • He married Maria Antonia Navarro y Chavez, daughter of Jose Antonio George Navarro and Juana Francisca Marcelina Chaves y Montes, in 1870.
  • At the time of John Ross's marriage to Maria Navarro, her father gave her a labor (160 acres) of land, part of the land earlier partitioned and bequeathed to him by his father, upon which in 1873 John and William Ross founded Rossville.
  • John Clarke Ross and Maria Antonia Navarro y Chavez appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Atascosa County, Texas. Other members of the household included Tom M. Ross, Joseph Anthony Ross and Evander McIver Ross.
  • John Clarke Ross and Maria Antonia Navarro y Chavez appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Atascosa County, Texas, living next door to his brother William.. Other members of the household included Tom M. Ross, Hannah Ross and Alexander Ross.
  • He was a farmer, according to the 1900 census.
  • John Clarke Ross and Maria Antonia Navarro y Chavez appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Atascosa County, Texas, and one servant and one boarder.. Other members of the household included Mary Alice Wood.
  • John Clarke Ross and Maria Antonia Navarro y Chavez appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Atascosa County, Texas, and one female servant.. Other members of the household included Tom M. Ross and Mary Alice Wood.
  • John Clarke Ross became a widower at the 1922 death of his wife Maria Antonia Navarro y Chavez.
  • John Clarke Ross died on 1 October 1925 at age 84.
  • He was interred at Langston & Ross Memorial Cemetery, Poteet, Atascosa County, Texas.
  • Last Edited: 8 Apr 2013

Family 1: Jane (?) b. circa 1844, d. say 1868

Family 2: Maria Antonia Navarro y Chavez b. 13 March 1845, d. 1922