Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887, Shelby Co. B. B. ROSS was born in Shelby County in June, 1839, to Dr. Samuel and Agnes (Bradshaw) Ross. Dr. Ross came from Ohio to Kentucky, and was for many years a dentist at Shelbyville; was a brother of Dr. James Ross, who occupies the chair of dentistry in the Vanderbilt University of Nashville, Tenn.; died in 1855; his parents moved from Virginia to Ohio. Mrs. Ross was a daughter of John Bradshaw, of a family who came from Maryland to Kentucky in pioneer days, and had many conflicts with the Indians. B. B. Ross was reared in his native county, and in 1859 first began business in Louisville with M. Muldoon, under the firm name of M. Muldoon & Co., continued about three years, and then engaged in the drug trade at Shelbyville for several years. Since then he has been engaged in farming, and owns 145 acres of valuable land adjoining Shelbyville, on the Shelbyville and Smithfield Pike. In connection with his farming interests he is a dealer in Jersey cattle and Southdown sheep, and also has a dairy from which he ships several thousand gallons of milk per month to the Louisville market. At the present time he has twelve registered Jerseys, known at the "Oakwood Herd" and they include the following families: "Signal," "St. Hilia," "Stoke Pogis," "St. Lambert," "Pansy," and other noted strains. In 1866 Mr. Ross married Miss Anna Hill, of St. Louis, Mo. They have four children: James, Samuel, Mary and Louisa. Mr. Ross is a member of the Methodist Church. Ross Bradshaw Hill Muldoon = Nashville-Davidson-TN MD MO OH VA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/shelby/ross.bb.txt