Ross, John C. bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 670, Farmers' Township
John C. Ross, sec. 19; P. O., Table Grove; was born in Alexandria Co., Va. (then part of D. C.), Jan. 20, 1819. He there received an education under the instruction of Prof. Benjamin Hallowell. His life has been varied. His parents, David and Mary Ross, removed with their son to Buckland Mills, Va., near the spot where the battle of Bull Run was fought. This was in 1820. They remained here until 1823, when they went to a farm in Fauquier Co., Va.; thence to Occoquan, Va., in 1825; thence back to Alexandria in 1828. In 1835 he engaged as a clerk with Hopkins & Hull, dry-goods merchants, of Baltimore, in which business he remained 18 months, when he went to Cooper Co., Mo., where he engaged in farming and school-teaching for 3 years; in 1840 he came to Farmers’ township, this county, where he still resides. He is known as one of Fulton county’s prominent corn and wheat producers. He was married April 3, 1850, to Sarah A. Bartholomew, by whom he had 8 children; 5 of these are living, viz: Katie P., David, Jack, Hattie N. and Charles. Mrs. Ross died Dec. 24, 1870. He again married March 12, 1874, this time to Mary (Miller) Bartholomew. She being a widows when he married her, had 4 children, viz: Hattie, Frank, Horace and Aaron Bartholomew.