Additional Ross and Slover Families’ Notes By Cecilia Fábos-Becker

This Document contains very old copies of original materials sent to me by my late cousin, Sue Thompson Miklas who was doing research into the Wallace and allied families (Lamar, Ross, etc.) in the 1960’s and 1970’s. As you can see these are partly from the original Revolutionary War Pension File W1496, and from a Bible record (most old Bibles had pages for “family records.”). I do not have the copy of the original Bible cover; that was not sent to me. I don’t know who does. However, there is also a DAR record from a lineage sent to the DAR in about 1895 and published in a volume of their books in 1896 and this supports the other materials, except it shows an additional son of James Ross and Mary Slover, not in the Ross Bible record but in the Slover family records. In 2012, M. Secrist published Anderson County Tennessee History…, which is partly on-line and I was able to extract notes from the sections on Robert Ross and Aaron Slover, the father of Mary Ann Slover who married James Ross and the rest of her family (as much documentation that apparently survived). Pleasant Slover, who handled some of the paperwork for the widow, Lucy Arnold-Ross, Mary Ann’s mother-in-law, was a younger brother of hers. In this book, it says that (at some time) before he moved to Anderson County, Tennessee, Robert Ross lived in Augusta County, Virginia. This was where the Scott family lived. He was by 1778, or so, however, in Lunenburg-Mecklenburg counties where he re-enlisted under Col. Winn. Col. Richard Winn knew the Arnold family and had property near them in Virginia. It also identifies the parents of Mary Ann Slover as Aaron Slover b. 1775-d. 1843, and Elizabeth (Hill) Slover b. 1779-d. 1843. An interview with a grandson of Aaron and Elizabeth, Henry Clay Slover describes their early lives and where they lived and that they were buried in “an old graveyard a few miles north of Clinton” and that the stones were still standing in this grand-son’s time, when he was interviewed. Aaron Slover was a son of Abraham and Martha Slover from Pennsylvania and came to Tennessee before 1800. In 1800, Aaron Slover patented 1,000 acres of land 8 miles north of Clinton., about 3 miles north of Rossville and 6 miles north of Clinton. The known (by M. Secrist, author of that history), children of Aaron Slover and Elizabeth Hill were: Mary Ann b. 31 March, 1794, married James Ross, etc.; Aaron Slover Jr. b. 9 March, 1809 married Nancy Burton b. 15 Feb. 1811; Rolla Duncan Slover b. 13 Jan. 1811, md first Huldah Lyle; Pleasant Slover b. 9 Nov. 1813 md. 5 Oct. 1840 to Amanda Burton b. 29 March 1815; Charles Slover b. 1818--d.12 Dec. 1876; Calvin b. 1820 and Abraham (no dates available).

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