Abner Ross

1760 - 1830  (70 years)

• Name	Abner Ross
  Birth	1 Jun 1760	Elizabethtown, New Jersey
  Gender	Male
  Death	11 Jul 1830	Longtown, Fairfield, South Carolina
  Person ID	I7199	Scudder
  Last Modified	11 May 2013

  
  

  Father	David Ross,   b. 1733, Elizabethtown, New Jersey d. 21 Nov 1796, Susquehanna, Genesee, New York (Age 63 years)
  Mother	Hannah Scudder,   b. Abt 1744, New Jersey d. 20 Oct 1779 (Age 35 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1759  [1]
  Family ID	F265	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary or Polly Whitaker,   b. 1765, Camden, South Carolina d. 11 Apr 1846, Longtown, Fairfield, South Carolina (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	20 Feb 1794
  Children	1. Osmund Ross,   b. 12 Dec 1794   d. 30 Sep 1820, Columbia, South Carolina (Age 25 years)   2. Harriet Ross,   b. 22 Nov 1796   d. 21 Nov 1832 (Age 35 years)   3. Molsey Elizabeth Ross,   b. 9 Aug 1798, , Fairfield, South Carolina d. 20 Feb 1873, , Desoto, Louisiana (Age 74 years)   4. David Felix Ross,   b. 6 Oct 1799, , Fairfield, South Carolina d. 29 Nov 1800, , Fairfield, South Carolina (Age 1 year)   5. David Felix Ross,   b. 13 Mar 1801, , Fairfield, South Carolina d. 27 Nov 1805, , Fairfield, South Carolina (Age 4 years)   6. James W. Ross,   b. 4 Jan 1804, Fairfield county, South Carolina d. 6 Apr 1848, Perry county, Alabama (Age 44 years)   7. John Alfred Ross,   b. 20 Jun 1806, , Fairfield, South Carolina d. 21 Oct 1865, , Desoto, Louisiana (Age 59 years)   8. William E. Ross,   b. 20 Jun 1806, , Fairfield, South Carolina d. Abt 1885 (Age 78 years)   9. Elizabeth Martha Ross,   b. 23 Jul 1808, , Fairfield, South Carolina d. 22 Oct 1814, , Fairfield, South Carolina (Age 6 years)
  Family ID	F2605	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  After the Revolutionary War, Abner moved to Fairfield county, South Carolina. There he first had a plantation at Dutchmans Creek on the Wateree River, which he kept when he moved to a plantation "Vauxhall" at Longtown. He was a justice of the quorum court at Fairfield county, and in 1814and 1816 he was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives. In his will, dated 1 June 1824 and proved 21 July 1830, he mentions his hometown of Elizabethtown, his wife Polly, all his living children, both his plantations, many slaves, and a planned family burial vault.

  
  

• Sources

  [S104] Samuel Scudder [1704-1777] of Essex County, New Jersey -- An Update, Vol. I, No. 1, p. 8.