MARY SUSAN ROSS STINSON (1874-1934)
Updated 4-23-2006
Mary Susan (Susie) Ross was the ggranddaughter of Rice
Farrar Ross (12-3-1776 to 4-8-1865) and Sarah Bonham (8-5-1787 to 3-29-1849).
She was the granddaughter of William W. Ross (12-5-1815 to about 1865)
and Mary Ann Hendrix (3-25-1825 to 7-23-1904). She was the daughter of
Isaac Rice Ross (1851-1943) and Mary Rutha Barton (1850- to 1929).
Mary Rutha Barton was the gggranddaughter of Joshua
Barton (August 19, 1718) and Jane Dubart Barton.
She was the ggranddaughter of David Barton , (March
15,1744) and Hanna Hill Barton. She was the granddaughter of Thomas
Barton (November 26, 1844) and Tabitha Hodges Barton. She was the daughter
of William Hill Barton (about 1815, Wilson or Rutherford County, Tennessee)
and Susan Allen Barton. Mary Rutha Barton married Isaac Rice Ross, November
31, 1873, in Mc Nairy County, Tennessee.
The 1860 census of Jacks Creek, Henderson County, Tennessee,
shows William H. as age 47 and Mary Rutha age 10. She had seven brothers
and sisters.
Mary Susan was shown in the 1880 census, for McNairy
County, Tennessee, as age 6. Also listed were: I. R. Ross, age 26, Mary
R., age 29 and Martha (Mary) E. (Elizabeth) Ross, age 3. I do not have
the 1890 census.
In the 1900 census, of Hunt County, Texas, Susan was
listed as age 25, and was said to have been born in Tennessee on November
9, 1874. In the home were also I.R. Ross, born June of 1852, Mary R, ,
born December of 1850, Martha (Mattie), born 1877, William
Thomas, born August, 1882, Charlotte Lenora, born February, 1885, John
Allen, born November, 1887, James
Charles, born December of 1891, and Ivy Lee, born May of 1893. All
of the children were listed as single.
In the 1910 census, of Hunt County, Texas,
Susan was listed as married and at age 35. She was married to Mr. Stinson.
I know nothing about him. I do know that they did not have long together.
In the home were also Isaac, Mary R.,William T., Charlotte L., John A.
and Ivy L.. Martha (Mary) ((Mattie) was not shown. She had married Robert
Newton Peak and was living in Oklahoma. James Charles and Ivy L. were not
shown. Ivy had married and moved to Greenville, Texas. Charlotte L. married
J. W. Bass and she lived in Lone Oak until her death.
In 1920 the family was in Lone Oak, Hunt County, Texas.
Isaac, Mary R. and William T. were in one home and John, Mary Susan
Stinson and Wesley Stinson, were in another. Wesley was listed as
age 12. I do not know why he was not listed in the 1910 census. His tombstone
says he was born in 1907 and died in 1923. I do not know why he died so
young. He was buried in Lone Oak.
Mary Rutha died in 1929. I am sure Susan meant very
much to the family as a housekeeper, cook and relative. This was
especially true after the death of her mother. I remember Aunt Susie as
a kind and thoughtful lady. Mary Rutha was buried in Lone Oak. At the time
the family was living in the Riley Grove community, about 6 miles southwest
of Commerce, in Hunt County.
In the 1930 census Isaac was listed as 77, Mary S.
55,William T. 47. In another house, near by, was listed John Allen, 42
Romona Irene 24, Bryan A. 6, John Wilson, 4, and Evelyn Marie, 1. Soon
after this the John Ross family moved to Amarillo for 11 months. John worked
for a Mobile Oil filling station, owned by two Duniven brothers. Wynona
Lee was born in Amarillo in 1931.
When the John Ross family moved back to Hunt County
they lived about a mile from the Isaac Rice family. At the time
Isaac,Susan and William (Will) were living together. Bryan and Wilson started
to school at the Riley Grove school. In 1934 Susan died suddenly (fell
over dead in the outside “privy”). She was buried in Lone Oak, beside
her son, Wesley, and her mother. After her death Isaac went to
live with James Charles and Lilly, south of Commerce. Uncle Will went to
live with his cousin, James E. Barton, and his wife Sarah E. Barton.
In 1943 Isaac Rice died, at the age of 92, and was buried in
Lone Oak, Texas.
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