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Anna Gibson Ross is the daughter of Benjamin Ross (1767-1847), and his wife Anna Gibson (1778-1847) (of Vt., N.H., Mass., and Ohio), who were married on Dec. 7, 1796, in Lancaster, Worcester County Massachusetts. Anna was the third of seven children.
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Both of Anna's parents are buried in the Old Sullivan Cemetery (also known as "Sullivan's Oldest Cemetery"), in Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio, on the western edge of town, Route 224.
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Anna's siblings are:
1. Infant female Ross (1797-1797).
2. Sylvester Flint Ross Sr. (1798-1873).
m. Cynthia "Sinthy" Rice (14 dhildren).
Buried: Keene Cemetery, in Keene,
Wabaunsee County Kansas.
(See: "A Standard History of Kansas
and Kansans,...
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Anna Gibson Ross is the daughter of Benjamin Ross (1767-1847), and his wife Anna Gibson (1778-1847) (of Vt., N.H., Mass., and Ohio), who were married on Dec. 7, 1796, in Lancaster, Worcester County Massachusetts. Anna was the third of seven children.
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Both of Anna's parents are buried in the Old Sullivan Cemetery (also known as "Sullivan's Oldest Cemetery"), in Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio, on the western edge of town, Route 224.
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Anna's siblings are:
1. Infant female Ross (1797-1797).
2. Sylvester Flint Ross Sr. (1798-1873).
m. Cynthia "Sinthy" Rice (14 dhildren).
Buried: Keene Cemetery, in Keene,
Wabaunsee County Kansas.
(See: "A Standard History of Kansas
and Kansans, Vol. 3, page 1692",
by William E. Connelley, 1918).
3. (Anna) (1800-1864).
4. Samuel Mulligan Ross (1803-1887).
m. Sarah Thomas on Aug. 9, 1832, in
Colrain, Mass. Died in Lenawee Co. MI.
Buried: Lyons Cemetery, Fulton Co. Ohio
(near their son Amandrin P. Ross).
5. Solomon Theodore Ross (1807-1811)
(born and died in N. H.).
6. Nancy Phoebe Barton Ross (1814-1828).
Died age 14. Buried: Brick School Cemetery,
Colrain, Franklin County Massachusetts.
7. Eunice Muriel Ross
(July 1, 1821-April 8, 1884).
m. Julius C. Bowker (1819-1887).
Buried: Lick Fork Cemetery,
Gallatin, Daviess County Missouri.
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Note: PLEASE, do NOT transfer this
memorial to other web sites.
Thanks, Nancy (Letcher) Heib.
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Anna Ross (of Colrain, Mass.), and Hiram Bliss [Sr.] (of Leyden, Mass.), were married on Sept. 28, 1823 in Franklin County Massachusetts. He was the son of Peter Bliss Sr. and his wife Mary ("Molly") Perry.
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Hiram and Anna moved to the towns of Truxton and Homer, in Cortland County New York, and then, near Berkshire, Rawson Hollow, and Richford, in Tioga County New York.
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Note: The towns of Berkshire, Rawson Hollow, Speedsville, Caroline, and Richford are very close together. Owego is about 20-30 miles to the South.
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Note: Four of their nine children died before their 31st birthday (and before Hiram Sr. and Anna Bliss moved to Buchanan, Michigan). Two of their children are buried in the Evergreen Cemetery (in Owego, Tioga County New York), and two are buried in the Rawson Hollow Cemetery (in Berkshire, Tioga County New York).
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The nine children of Hiram Bliss Sr. and his wife Anna Gibson Ross are:
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1. Mary Ann Bliss. b. Nov. 20, 1823 in Colrain, Franklin County, Massachusetts. d. April 19, 1827, in Homer, Cortland County New York, aged 3 years, and 5 months. Note: The Homer, Cortland Co., N.Y. "Observer" on April 25, 1827 reads: Died in this village, on the 19th inst. a daughter of Mr. Hiram Bliss, aged 8 [or 3?] years. ( Mary Ann's headstone is now located in the Potter's Field area, of the Glenwood Cemetery, in Homer, Cortland County New York. Possibly an unclaimed headstone from the old Village Cemetery?).
Note: At least three old cemeteries were moved to the Cortland Rural Cemetery after it opened about 1854-1855, including the old Village Cemetery.
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2. Hiram Ross Bliss Jr. b. Dec. 14, 1825 in Truxton, Cortland County, New York. m. Sunday, Aug. 25, 1850, to Elvira Tracy Perkins, the Rev. John Nailey officiating. Children: John William (1852-1933), (John W. married Annis Burnette Howard), Lucy, Wilber, and Nettie Genura Bliss (she married Rev. Charles Ragbir, of Diamond Village, Trinidad, British West Indies). d. April 21, 1891 in Truxton, Cortland County, New York, age 65. Buried: Hiram Jr. is buried in the Chenango Valley Cemetery, in Binghamton, Broome County New York. He shares a headstone with his son John William and John's wife Annis. (Hiram's wife Elvira T. Bliss, infant son and infant daughter Lucy Bliss, are buried in the Rawson Hollow Cemetery, in Berkshire, Tioga County New York, as well as Hiram Jr.'s brother Casemer).
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3. Marsden Bliss. b. May 10, 1829 in Homer, Cortland County, New York. m. Angeline Unknown (She was born March 3, 1828 and died Jan. 2, 1876, age 49 and she is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Owego, Tioga County New York, per: Funeral Records of the First Baptist church). d. Marsden died on May 23, 1859, at the age of 30 years and 18 days, of consumption, at Owego, N. Y. and is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery, in Owego, Tioga County New York, with his wife Angeline.
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4. Casemer Bliss. b. Aug. 12, 1831 in Homer, Cortland Co. New York. m. Lucinda J. Wattles. d. Aug. 20, 1858 in Berkshire, Tioga Co. New York, age 27 years and 8 days. Buried: Rawson Hollow Cemetery, in Berkshire, Tioga Co. New York. See beautiful poem on his headstone.
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5. Genura Bliss. b. May 10, 1833 in Homer, Cortland County, New York. m. Daniel Hunt (of Berkshire). Children: Albert M., and Etta Hunt. (After Genura's death, her daughter Etta was raised by Genura's sister Louise Blanchard). d. Sept. 30, 1861, age 28 years, 4 months and 19 days, in Caroline, Tompkins County New York (near Richford and Berkshire). Buried: Rawson Hollow Cemetery, in Berkshire, Tioga County New York.
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6. Malcolm/Malcom Bliss (spelled "Malcom" on his headstone, but spelled "Malcolm" on his son Carl's headstone, and spelled "Malcolm" on his grandson's headstone). b. May 17, 1835 in Homer, Cortland County, New York. m. April 20, 1858 Frances Jane Lacey/Lacy (per Marriage Records of the First Baptist Church in Owego, New York). He lived in Illinois in 1870, then in Council Grove, Morris County Kansas in 1880. d. July 5, 1901, age 66, in Kansas City, Jackson County Missouri. Buried: Mount Washington (Forever) Cemetery, in Independence, Jackson County Missouri (in the "Heritage Garden" section). Possible children are: William, Carl Lacey, Lulu (Bliss) Jenkins, Harry Lyndon, and Daisy G. (Bliss) Goings (listed as "Daisy Bliss" on headstone). Note: He also had a Grandson named Malcolm Bliss (the son of Carl and Hilda), who is also buried there.
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7. DeBert Bliss (nicknamed "Bert" Bliss). b. Nov. 25, 1836 in Homer, Cortland County, New York. m. March 9, 1865 to Nancy A. Smith, the daughter of James Smith Sr. and his first wife Sally/Sarah E. Carroll, in Bertrand Township, South of Buchanan, Berrien County Michigan. Their children are: Anna and Milton. d. Sept. 27, 1887 in Buchanan, Berrien County Michigan, age 51. Buried: Howe Cemetery in Bertrand Twp. South of Buchanan, Berrien Co. Michigan, next to his parents. (The land for the Howe cemetery was donated by Hiram's sister Polly (Bliss) Howe and her husband Frederick Howe Sr.) (See his memorial on find-a-grave).
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8. Louise / Louisa Bliss. b. Feb. 20, 1839 in Berkshire, Tioga County, New York. m. Joseph A. Blanchard (of Speedsville, N. Y.). In 1860 Joseph and Louise were living with her brother Hiram Bliss and family. In 1870 and 1875, they were living in Owego, Tioga Co. N.Y. with their adopted daughter Etta Hunt (the daughter of Louise's sister Genura and her husband Daniel Hunt). They resided at Owego, N. Y. in 1880 and 1900, with no children. d. "about" 1903. Her obit reads: Mrs. Louise Blanchard, the well-known dressmaker, died at her home on West Front street, on Saturday last of dropsy, aged 64 years. She was the widow of Joseph Blanchard and is survived by one brother, Franklin Bliss, Esq., of Richford. The funeral was held on Monday, from St. Paul's church, Rev. J. H. Kidder officiating. The interment was in Evergreen cemetery (no year given). [Possibly the same cemetery that her brother Marsden and his wife Angeline are buried in, in Owego, Tioga Co. N. Y.].
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9. Franklin Bliss (in Civil War). Franklin served in the 76th New York Infantry, Company E. He enlisted on Sept. 25, 1861, at Richford, New York. He mustered in as a musician, in Company E, on Oct. 4, 1861. He was promoted to Principal musician on June 23, 1863. He was listed as "missing in action" on July 1, 1863 at Gettysburg, PA. He was transferred to the 112th Company, Second Battalion, Veteran Reserve Corps on Dec. 10, 1863. After three years of service, he then enlisted in Co. B, of the 7th Veteran Reserve Corps. After the war (and after his marriage), he resided in "the West" for nine years (about 1864-1873 in Galena, Floyd County Indiana). He then returned to New York., living in Hartford Mills, and in 1876, came to Richford, New York, and bought a feed mill.------ b. Nov. 7, 1843 in Berkshire [near Richford], Tioga County, New York. m. Nov. 1, 1864 at Rawson Hollow (near Berkshire), Tioga Conunty New York, to Mary Jane Jewett, the daughter of Asahel Jewett and his wife Betsey Freeland. Their children were: Herbert ("Bert"), Walter, and Lydia (she married Fred Whitlock). It is not known if Franklin followed his parents and his brother DeBert to Michigan, but Franklin and his wife were living in Galena, Floyd County Indiana after both of his parents died in late 1864, and also when two of his children were born in 1865, and 1867. (His father left his estate to his wife and their two youngest sons, DeBert and Franklin). Franklin later moved back to Richford, Tioga County, New York. The 1887-1888 directory of Richford, N.Y. lists Franklin and his son Bert. Franklin owned a well known Grist Mill (near the train depot), on the West side of Richford, New York for many years. He later sold "Bliss Mills" to his son in 1908, on account of ill health. d. Feb. 20, 1919 in Richford, Tioga County New York, age 76. Buried: Highland Cemetery, in Richford, Tioga County New York, in Section 18, lot # 6. (His wife and son Walter Bliss are also buried in the Highland Cemetery). Note: The "Owego Record" newspaper, states the following (regarding his son), on Jan. 26, 1899: Bert [Herbert] Bliss has gone to Mt. Clemens, Michigan, where he will take treatment for rheumatism, from which he has been suffering for some time. He was accompanied by his father Franklin Bliss of Richfield [N.Y.]. Note: See the memorial for Franklin Bliss, of New York, on this web site.
Google: "Bios of men from Richford, New York, Franklin Bliss".
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Anna and her husband Hiram Bliss Sr. moved from Richford, Tioga County New York (near Speedsville, Berkshire and Owego), to Buchanan, Berrien County Michigan in 1864, with their son DeBert Bliss. (Hiram had three married sisters, and one or more nephews living near Buchanan).
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In 1864 Hiram and Anna purchased a farm in Section 33 of Buchanan township, two miles S.-W. of Buchanan, Berrien County Michigan, on the North side of the Galien-Buchanan Road, between Hass Road and High Ridge Road (near the Bakertown Cemetery). Anna and her husband Hiram Bliss Sr. both died later that same year.
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Note: This memorial was
researched and written,
by Nancy (Letcher) Heib.
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Anna is buried next to her husband
Hiram Bliss Sr. and son DeBert Bliss,
in the Howe Cemetery,
in Row 5, Lot 188.
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Anna's headstone reads:
ANNA
WIFE OF
HIRAM BLISS
DIED
NOV. 11, 1864
Aged 64 yrs, 2
MONTHS
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Note: Anna's grandfather, David Gibson (1757-1820), and her Great grandfather Isaac Gibson (1721-1797), both served in the Revolutionary War with proven lines in the D.A.R. (Daughters of the American Revolution).
David Gibon served as a Corporal in 1777 at Rhode Island, in a Company commanded by Capt. Joseph Sargent, drafted from Colonel Whitney's and Colonel Stearn's Regiment, to serve under General Spencer.
Isaac Gibson served as a private in Capt. Ebenezer Wood's Company of Minute-men, Colonel Asa Witcomb's Regiment.
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The Kansas Society of the "Daughters of the American Revolution", named the Kansas City, Kansas, Charter # 852, after Anna's grandfather James Ross Jr. (1744-1825).
The chapter was later moved to Shawnee, Kansas.
See: "James Ross Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Shawnee, Kansas", then..., click on: "History of James Ross Chapter".
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NOTE: This information on James Ross Jr.
has been disputed. May be the wrong
James Ross. More research needed.
Mary L. M. Toluchanian sent the following
note:
"The James Ross (1744-1825) mentioned
in this memorial, is not the same person
as "Private James Ross (who) served from
Wooster County New York, in 1777", and
who "also served nine months under
General George Washington."
Although service as a Private in the
Revolutionary War was erroneously
credited to him in earlier years,
this service has since been disproved
and is no longer accepted for him by
the D. A. R.
See: "History of the Connecticut Valley
in Massachusetts, Volume 2", Philadelphia,
Louis H. Everts, 1879, pages 783-784.
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Note: For the history of the Ross family, see: "The Seventh Volume of The Book of Ross, being the First Book of The Second Series of New England Rosses", compiled and printed by Ernest E. Fewkes, Newton, Massachusetts, 1935, unpublished manuscript in Ross Collection, located in the R. Stanton Avery Special Collections Department of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 101 Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02116.
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Note: For the history of the Gibson family, see: "John Gibson of Cambridge, Massachusetts and his descendants 1634-1899", by Mehitabel Calef Coppenhagen Wilson, 1900, page 358 and 359. Located in the Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana (www.acpl.lib.in.us)
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Note: Anna's brother Sylvester Flint Ross Sr. was the father of Edmund Gibson Ross (1826-1907)(Anna's nephew), who was a famous man in our naton's history. Edmund was the promoter and director of the Santa Fe Railroad and it was he who suggested the name "Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe" Railway. Edmund served in the Civil War, enlisting in the Union Army with Company E, Eleventh Regiment, Kansas Volunteer Infantry as a private in 1862, and mustered out as a major in 1865. Edmund Gibson Ross served as a Senator from Kansas from 1866-1871. He cast the pivotal vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in 1868 (for which he was ostracised by his own state). Edmund was appointed (and later elected) Governor of the Territory of New Mexico by President Cleveland in 1885, and served four years. He was admitted to the bar in 1889. He was the publisher of several newspapers, in 1871-1882 and 1890-1893. Edmund Gibson Ross was also, the Secretary of the Bureau of Immigration from 1894-1896. [For his history and photo, "google" his name].
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Note: See the memorials for Anna's
family, on this web site, including:
Father, Benjamin Ross, of Ohio.
Mother, Anna (Gibson) Ross, of Ohio.
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Husband, Hiram Bliss Sr., of Michigan.
Son, DeBert Bliss, of Michigan.
Grandson, Milton James Bliss, of Michigan.
Great, Grandson, Lloyd Feather Bliss of MI.
Great, Great, Granddaughter,
Thelma Celestia (Bliss) Letcher, of MI
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Note: Anna and Hiram Bliss Sr.
are my Gt., Gt., Great, Grandparents.
Nancy (Letcher) Heib.
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