Revolutionary War veteran.
From the MS State Society Daughters of the American Revolution: ROSS, Capt. Isaac -- Served in Gen. Sumpter's Brigade as Captain. Marked 25 October 1977 by Chakchiuma Chapter.
Cleveland Plain Dealer (Ohio), 23 Dec 1848, p2:
INCREASED EMIGRATION TO LIBERIA. Already five vessels have been dispatched this year with over 400 emigrants. Among those now waiting to go are 200 slaves in Jefferson county, Mississippi, of the estate of Capt. Isaac Ross, who died in 1836. The Society called for the sum of $5,000 from its friends; which call was in part responded to on the next day by a check for $1,000, for the Ross slaves, enclosed from an unknown donor to J.B. Pinney, Esq., the corresponding Secretary of the Society.
Revolutionary War veteran.
From the MS State Society Daughters of the American Revolution: ROSS, Capt. Isaac -- Served in Gen. Sumpter's Brigade as Captain. Marked 25 October 1977 by Chakchiuma Chapter.
Cleveland Plain Dealer (Ohio), 23 Dec 1848, p2:
INCREASED EMIGRATION TO LIBERIA. Already five vessels have been dispatched this year with over 400 emigrants. Among those now waiting to go are 200 slaves in Jefferson county, Mississippi, of the estate of Capt. Isaac Ross, who died in 1836. The Society called for the sum of $5,000 from its friends; which call was in part responded to on the next day by a check for $1,000, for the Ross slaves, enclosed from an unknown donor to J.B. Pinney, Esq., the corresponding Secretary of the Society.
Inscription
This monument is erected to the memory of Capt Isaac Ross who was born in the State of North Carolina, January 5th, AD 1760 and departed this life after a protracted and painful illness borne with peculiar fortitude in Jefferson County at Prospect Hill January 19th 1836 in the 77th year of his age. He bore an honorable part in the scenes of the Revolution under the distinguished Sumpter. In the year 1808, he emigrated from South Carolina to Mississippi and by an energy and integrity of surpassing excellence, he became the architect of a character and fortune to which few attain. His last will is graced with as munificent provisions as any over which Philanthropy has ever rejoiced and by it will be erected on the shores of Africa a Monument more glorious than marble and as enduring as time."
Gravesite Details
Monument commissioned by Mississippi Branch of American Colonization Society, but paid for by Ross estate ($25,000 in mid-1800s).
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