Ashburn Dewitt Clinton Ross

Biography

Ashburn Dewitt Clinton Ross was born on April 23, 1844 in Lincoln County, Tennesee, United States. His parents were William Ashburn Ross and Mahala Mary (Cunningham) Ross.

Ashburn married Matilda Mira Geylon in 1880 in NV, USA.

Ashburn married Nancy J. Hinzeman in 1893 in Canyon, ID, USA.

Ashburn married Martha Eliza (Evans) Ross in 1913 in Ada, ID, USA.

He died on October 20, 1915 in Boise, Ada County, Idaho, United States from complication of diseases.

Obituary

Ashburn C. Ross, 1920 State Street, Boise, Idaho, better known as "Uncle Dee" died Wednesday morning, Oct. 20, 1915, at a Boise hospital from a complication of diseases. Mr. Ross was 71 years old and a pioneer of Idaho. He came to this state 30 years ago and settled on the bench near McMillian's chapel. He sold that place 10 years ago and moved to Boise. He is survived by his wife, Martha E. Ross.

The funeral will take place at 2:00 pm Friday from the Schreiber & Sidenfaden funeral chapel. Rev. Sprague of the Methodist church will officiate. Burial will be in Morris Hill cemetery, Boise, Idaho. A special funeral car will be provided.

This appeared in the" Idaho Daily Statesman", Boise, Idaho – on Oct. 21, 1915

Ashburn DeWitt Clinton Ross was born in Tennessee, he moved with his parents while still quite young to Kentucky. Then the family moved further west into the Ozark region of Northern Arkansas where Ashburn grew to adulthood in the area of Carroll, later Boone County, Arkansas.

Ashburn was married three times. First wife being, Matilda Mira Geylon, they married on Jan. 14, 1880 in Esmeralda Co., Nevada and then divorced. Second wife being, widow Nancy Jane Heinzman Hedrick. Nancy Ross died March 1912. Ashburn then married Martha E. (Evans) Mitchell.

REMARKABLE LEAP OF A PANTHER By S. C. Turnbo

In the year 1866, said Mr. Ross, "my brother Dee Ross was employed by Mr. Boyed to work for him and one day while my brother was there a panther approached the barn and attacked a bunch of Mr. Boyed’s hogs near the barn. The barn stood close to the dwelling. The panther made its appearance soon after sunrise. Boyed owned three mastiff dogs and when the hogs began to rally and make a big noise they left the house yard and darted toward the barn and rushing up to the ferocious and daring beast and put it to flight. The chase was so hot that the panther and pursuing dogs soon reached the creek’s bank where the channel was 60 feet wide from shore to shore and the bank on each side of the creek was 8 feet high, and when the long lithe form of the panther reached the bank the dogs were so close to it that it actually sprang from the top of the bank and alighted on the edge of the bank on the opposite side of the bank from where it had leaped from. As soon as the panther lit on the bank and recovered itself, it sprang upward and caught to a limb of a burr oak tree which was 30 feet above the ground. The creek was flush but not past fording for a horse. The dogs when they reached the edge of the bank plunged down into the water and swam across and kept the frightened panther up the tree until Mr. Boyed could cross the creek on horseback with his gun and shoot the panther."

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• 1850: United States Federal Census < AncestrySharing >, District 1, Hopkins, Kentucky (in father's household
• 1860 United States Federal Census < AncestrySharing >
• 1870 United States Federal Census < AncestrySharing > Home in 1870 Tule River, Tulare, California Occupation Farm Laborer
• Matilda M. Geylon Western United States, Marriage Index, 1838-2016 Marriage: Jan 14 1880 - Nevada, United States Groom: Ashburn C Ross
• Nancy Hedrick in the Idaho, U.S., Marriage Records, 1863-1971 < AncestrySharing > Name Nancy Hedrick Gender Female Marriage Date 12 Dec 1893 Marriage Place Idaho, USA Residence Place Hunter, Ada County Spouse Asburn Ross
• "United States Census, 1910", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLHX-HJ4 : Wed Jul 19 21:34:25 UTC 2023), Entry for Ashburn C Ross and Nancy J Ross, 1910.
• "Idaho Marriages, 1878-1898; 1903-1942", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWDD-VQM : 19 June 2020), Ashburn C. Ross, 1913
• "Idaho Death Certificates, 1911-1937," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLTH-6C9 : 19 February 2021), Ashburne C. Ross, 20 Oct 1915; citing Boise, Ada, Idaho, reference cn 12561, Department of Health and Welfare, Boise; FHL microfilm 1,509,283.
• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV27-WP7S : 20 October 2022), Ashburn DeWitt Clinton Ross, ; Burial, Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States of America, Morris Hill Cemetery; citing record ID 60084349, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60084349/ashburn-dewitt_clinton...