Sarah (Walshaw) Ross (1773 - 1861)

Born 1773 in Idle, Yorkshire, England

Wife of Walter Ross — married 1794 in England

Descendants

Died 1861 at about age 88 in Stanningley, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Sarah was born in 1773. She passed away in 1861.

Daughter of Thomas Walshaw, of Buck Mill, Idle, near Bradford.

Sally was one of nine sisters, all noted locally for their good looks. A copy of a daguerreotype, taken when she was past eighty, shows traces of marked comeliness. A pretty account of their wedding journey, taken on horseback, with bridesmaids attending, was given by one who had known Sally and heard her describe the event.

On a visit to Buck Mill House in 1908, the writer picked up a bit of the old oak paneling in the living room which she converted into a small box for keepsakes, the lining of the box being made from a piece of Sally’s Broché shawl.

She is buried in the chapel yard at Bagley in the same grave with her daughter, Frances, who had died unmarried at the age of thirty-one in 1833. She was vigorous even when past eighty, and the writer’s mother remembered her to have walked four miles at that age to visit them in Bramley. She died at eighty-eight, of old age. From references in letters written her by her son, John, of Omro, Wisconsin, and given to the present writer in England, she was not a church member; but there is an account in the History of Rodley of religious gatherings at the house of “Watty Wrose,” conducted by Oliver Heywood, a well-known Baptist itinerant preacher of the day.

Sources

• https://rossfamilyhistory.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/the-family-line-of-john-ross-whitman-genealogy.pdf .