Just found out that our Ross family is connected with the early beginnings of the LDS church. Thomas Ross was a body guard for the Prophet Joseph Smith. Thomas married Rachel Smith who was related to the Prophet. The Ross family and the Smiths as well as many other families, suffered many hardships during the persecutions of the Saints. She writes about the Ross house being set on fire by a mob and Thomas Ross, who was sick in bed at the time was carried in a blanket outside the burning home and hid in a corn field. Thomas Ross was her grandfather. She wrote this in 1965.
Ella Minerva Parker writes, "Thomas and Rachel Smith Ross lived on a small farm just three miles from the city called Beautiful Nauvoo, first known as Commerce, but rightfully changed to Nauvoo, an ancient Hebrew meaning beautiful."
She wrote lots more and I made a copy. George Albert Smith may well turn out to be an ancient Morman relative of ours. I am just starting to do the research on this. As you know, Grandmother Lucretia Ross (your great grandmother) married John David Church and my dad was one of their sons.
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