History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed. by William Henry Perrin, O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882. p. 567. [Bourbon County] [Hutchinson Precinct] WEBB ROSS, farmer; P. O. Hutchinson; was born in Harrison County, Va., March 28, 1807; son of John Ross, who was born and raised in Pennsylvania and served in the Revolutionary war for a short time. The land owned by him was deeded to him in 1790. The mother of our subject was Ziporah (Webb) Ross, who married John in Robertson's Fort, in Virginia, in 1785. She was a daughter of Jonas Webb. Mr. Webb Ross married in 1836, Miss Shropshire, daughter of Col. E. N. Shropshire, of Bourbon COunty, and they have four children: Gabriella, Augusta Georgia, John Hancock and Robert Wickliffe. He owns 380 acres of land and his family belong to the Christian Church; was a Whig before the war; a Democrat since. Ross Webb Shropshire = Harrison-VA PA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/bourbon/ross.w.txt