1900: Living in Perry Township, St. Francois County, MO. Household members: Ross W. LaMaster (head, 24), Laura B LaMaster (wife, 24), Bertha M LaMaster (daughter, 2), William LaMaster (father, widowed, 67). Home is rented and is not a farm.[1]
On 26 March 1895, Ross La Masters of Monroe County and Laura Bratcher of Audrain County were married by C. G. Baker, Justice of the Peace, at his residence in Audrain County, MO. Filed for record 30 March 1895. Signed by J.F. (T?) Williams, Deputy and C. H. Bruce, Recorder. Marriage license indicates that Ross is of the age of nineteen (pre-printed twenty-one is crossed out) and bears the following notation: "This license is issued with the consent of Wm La Masters father of Ross."[3]
Work
1900: Teamster, 3 months of unemployment listed.[1]
Sources
↑ 1.01.11.21.31.4 "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M38N-V67 : accessed 26 November 2015), Ross W Lamaster, Perry Township (north part), St. Francois, Missouri, United States; citing sheet 10B, family 212, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,887.
↑ 2.02.12.2 1880 US Federal Census. Census Place: South Fork, Monroe, Missouri; Roll: 704; Family History Film: 1254704; Page: 520D; Enumeration District: 047; Image: 0349.
↑ 3.03.1 Ancestry.com. Missouri, Marriage Records, 1805-2002 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2007. Original data: Missouri Marriage Records. Jefferson City, MO, USA: Missouri State Archives. Microfilm.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ross by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
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