Robert Bruce Ross was born in the Cherokee Nation in 1845. He was the son of Allen Ross and Jennie Fields, both Cherokee. His family Removed to Indian Territory and settled in the Talequah DIstrict. He is listed with his parents and siblings on the 1851 Drennan Roll. [1] He married Frances Thornton, also Cherokee, in 1867. They were the parents of nine children, Charles, William, Rufus, Lulu, Frances, [2] Jennie, Susan, Robert, and Anna. [3][4]
Robert served in the Second Indian Home Guards (Union) in the Civil War. [5] He served as sheriff of the Tahlequah District and also served as a councilor and senator from Tahlequah. He was a delegate to Washington in 1887 and was a member of the comittee which negotiated with the Dawes Commission. [6] He was enrolled by the Dawes Commission in 1902 [7] and was approved for a share of the Eastern Cherokee (Guion Miller) payment in 1907. [8]
The 1910 U.S. Census shows the family still living in Tahlequah,[9] but by 1920 they had retired to Texas. [10] Frances died there in 1928 and Robert died in 1930. He is buried at the Ross Cemetery, Park Hill, Cherokee County, Oklahoma. [11]
Sources
↑ The National Archives at Fort Worth, Texas, USA; Record Group Number: 75; Record Group Title: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1793-1999; NARA Series Number: 7RA-01; NARA Series Title: Drennan Roll Tahlequah District, p. 22, #255
↑ The National Archives at Fort Worth, Texas, USA; Record Group Number: 75; Record Group Title: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1793-1999; NARA Series Number: 7RA-07; NARA Series Title: Cherokee Census, 1880.
↑ The National Archives at Fort Worth, Texas, USA; Record Group Number: 75; Record Group Title: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1793-1999; NARA Series Number: 7RA-07; NARA Series Title: Cherokee Census, 1880, Tahlequah District, #2239-2242
↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSRL-TN4 : accessed 11 August 2018), Robert B Ross, Township 15 N. Range 21 E., Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 38, sheet 16B, family 78, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,845.
↑ National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database War
↑ Hampton, David K. and Baker, Jack D., eds. Old Cherokee Families Notes of Dr. Emmet Starr. Baker Publishing Co., Oklahoma City, OK. 1987. Vol. 1, Note F636.
↑ Enrollment Cards for the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M1186, 93 rolls); Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Record Group 75; National Archives, Washington, D.C., Cherokee by Blood, Card Number 6838
↑ National Archives and Records Administration, Eastern Cherokee Applications of the Court of Claims. Application #15845. Digitized at Fold3, images begin at Robert
↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLQY-Q1R : accessed 15 September 2020), Robert B Ross, Tahlequah Ward 3, Cherokee, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 11, sheet 35A, fam...
↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHYF-JCK : accessed 15 September 2020), Robert B Ross, Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto, Texas, United States; citing ED 201, sheet 6A, line 14, family 113, NARA microf...
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