Nancy Scurry, who was born September 13 1809, and was a daughter of Jesse Scurry, who was a prominent slave owner and belonged to one of the good old families of South Carolina. Nancy married Frederick Ross on May 3rd, 1827. Mr. Ross with his family later removed to Benton county, Alabama, locating on the Tallapoosa river, near the old Arbacooche gold mines. The parental household included thirteen children, eight sons and five daughters, namely: Thomas; John, who served as a captain in the Thirty-first Alabama Infantry; Newton, who was captain of Company H, Forty-first Georgia Infantry; Cornelia; Sarah; Jesse, who was a member of the Fifty-first Alabama Cavalry, and was killed at the battle of Bentonville; Mary; Andrew, deceased; Frederick E., who was captain of a company of sharpshooters that was selected from Thomas . Cobb's legion; Napoleon B., Martha, Emma and Augustus H. Their father, who was a successful planter and an earnest Democrat in politics, died in February, 1866; and their mother who long survived him, passed away in 1889, at the age of eighty years. (Source: History of Texas, Central Texas, Vol I, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1896.)
Nancy Scurry, who was born September 13 1809, and was a daughter of Jesse Scurry, who was a prominent slave owner and belonged to one of the good old families of South Carolina. Nancy married Frederick Ross on May 3rd, 1827. Mr. Ross with his family later removed to Benton county, Alabama, locating on the Tallapoosa river, near the old Arbacooche gold mines. The parental household included thirteen children, eight sons and five daughters, namely: Thomas; John, who served as a captain in the Thirty-first Alabama Infantry; Newton, who was captain of Company H, Forty-first Georgia Infantry; Cornelia; Sarah; Jesse, who was a member of the Fifty-first Alabama Cavalry, and was killed at the battle of Bentonville; Mary; Andrew, deceased; Frederick E., who was captain of a company of sharpshooters that was selected from Thomas . Cobb's legion; Napoleon B., Martha, Emma and Augustus H. Their father, who was a successful planter and an earnest Democrat in politics, died in February, 1866; and their mother who long survived him, passed away in 1889, at the age of eighty years. (Source: History of Texas, Central Texas, Vol I, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1896.)
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