Burial of Capt. Ross. Special to the Statesman.
Waco, September 18. – The remains of Capt. Shapley P. Ross were buried this afternoon in Oakwood cemetery with Masonic honors. The funeral procession was fully two miles long and the street was lined with citizens, who stood with hats off to watch the line of carriages. Gov. Ross, son of the deceased, Senator Coke and Gen. Thomas Harrison and a large number of prominent veterans were present. Every business house in the city, including drug stores and saloons were closed in the evening as a mark of respect to the dead. (David Gode: #9925751)[1]
Ordained preacher of the gospel, Davis Bainbridge, married Shapely Ross & Catherine Fulkerson on the 4th of November 1830 in Saint Charles, Missouri filing the licenses on the 14th of January 1831.
Census data:
1830: Harrison, Lincoln County, Missouri Shapley Ross aged 19 years old living with is widowed mother Mary Prince Ross. 1 Male between the ages 15 and 20 years. 1 Female between the ages 60 and 70 years. And 12 slaves.
4 Nov 1830: Ordained preacher of the gospel, Davis Bainbridge, married Shapley Ross & Catherine Fulkerson on the 4th of November 1830 in Saint Charles, Missouri filing the licenses on the 14th of January 1831.
1840:
1850: Milam & Williamson District, Milam County, Texas (Hotel) Shapley P Ross (39, KY) Head – Hotel Keeper Catharine (38, VA) Wife Mary R (18, MS) Daughter Margaret B (16, MS) Daughter Peter F (13, IO) Son Sullivan (12, IO) Son Ann (8, TX) Daughter James M (6, TX) Son Robert S (2, TX) Son
1860: Waco, McLennan County, Texas: S. P. Ross (50, KY) Head – Farmer C. H. (48, VA) Wife P. F. (23, IO) male – Capt. States Service L. S. (21, IO) male – Capt. States Service Amsis (17, TX) female Robert S. (12, TX) male – in school Katie (8, TX) female – in school William (6, TX) male Lizzie (12, TX) female (Indian) Parblo (14, Mexico) male, mix Domingo (35, Mexico) female, mix
1870:
1880: Waco, McLennan County, Texas S. P. Ross (70, KY) Head C. H. (67, VA) Wife (Living next door to widowed son Peter F. Ross and his daughter Mary J. and son S. P.)[2]
Built the first house in Waco, Tx. He was a hotel operator, postmaster, Indian Agent, and cattle drover leaving his mark on Texas history.[3]
A member of Capt. John C. (Jack) Hays's rangers in 1842 and a member of the Snively expedition in 1843.[4]
Captain Shapley P. Ross was born on the old Ross farm in Jefferson county, Kentucky, six miles from Louisville, January 18, 1811, son of Shapley and Mary (Prince) Ross, natives of Virginia. His father was a son of Lawrence and Susan (Oldham) Ross, the former a native of Scotland. Lawrence ross came to this country with his father when a boy, and while attending school in Virginia, was shot through the shoulder and taken prisoner by the Indians. He remained with the Indians until he was twenty-three years old, when he was given up by them at the first treaty of Limestone. He and his wife both lived to an advance age, his death occurring in Jefferson county, Kentucky, in 1817, at the age of ninety-eight, and his wife's two years later. Captain Ross' father was a Kentucky planter, and, like his father before him, a large slaveholder. He moved to Lincoln county, Missouri, in 1817, and died in 1823, at the age of sixty-five. The Captain's mother was a member of a distinguished Virginia family, and a woman of many estimable qualities. She was a member of the Primitive Baptist Church. Her death occurred in Iowa, at the home of her son, the subject of our sketch, in 1837. To this worthy couple, Shapley and Mary Ross, were born five sons and three daughters, namely: William O., Lawrence, Mervin, Presley, Nevill and Shapley, Susan, Caroline, and Elizabeth.[5]
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