Elizabeth Enoch

Elizabeth ROSS was born CA 1720 in Ireland or Colonial Virginia, and died 1786 in Hampshire County, Virginia, near Bloomery. She was buried in Hampshire County, West Virginia, on the family farm near Bloomery.

family

She was the daughter of William Ross and Arminella WHITESIDE.

She married Henry ENOCH 1740 in (Spotsylvania County, Colonial Virginia), son of Henery ENOCHSON and Elizabeth ?. He was born 1710 in Colonial Pennsylvania, and died 1784 in Hampshire County, Virginia, near Bloomery. He was buried in Hampshire County, West Virginia, on the family farm near Bloomery.

Their children

1. Sarah Enoch b: CA 1740 in (Spotsylvania County, Colonial Virginia)
2. Henry Enoch, II b: 12 MAY 1732 [SIC] in (Spotsylvania County, Colonial Virginia)
3. David ENOCH, Sr. USA b: 1740 in (Spotsylvania County, Colonial Virginia)
4. Rachel Enoch b: 1740 in (Spotsylvania County, Colonial Virginia)
5. Enoch Enochs, Patriot Soldier b: 29 SEP 1750 in Hampshire County, Colonial Virginia
6. Elizabeth Enoch b: 1755 in (Spotsylvania County, Colonial Virginia)

notes

From page 61 of Historical Records of the Enoch Family in Virginia and Pennsylvania By Harry G. Enoch

Henry Enoch's parents unconfirmed. Married Elizabeth, daughter of William Ross. Possible children: Henry Jr. married Sarah; Sarah married William Bills; Enoch married Rebecca Morris; David, married Nancy; John; Rachel married Henry Largent; Elizabeth married William Craig.

From https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=08191962...

INFORMATION FROM NANCY L. CARTER

Elizabeth was probably the first child born to William and Armenella Ross. Her birth may have occurred while they were still in Ireland, or when they arrived in the Virginia/Pennsylvania area in the American colonies.
The Ross family was living on Goose Creek, Virginia, when the Enochson grandchildren came to the Antietam location to work together in the mining operations. This seems likely to represent the opportunity for Henry to court Elizabeth and make the family associations that would take them to the Hampshire Co, Virginia, area some ten years later.

She was married at a young age, as her mother had been. The families of William Ross and Henry Enoch moved into Frederick (now Hampshire) County in the Colony of Virginia, at about the same time - 1746-48. The Lawrence Whiteside of Bucks County, Province of Pennsylvania, may have been a member of Armenella's family, thus providing the physical proximity for an acquaintance for Henry and Elizabeth. Elizabeth was mentioned in her father's Will, written in 1754.

She managed the very busy household of an influential and politically active husband. She provided meals and hospitality for important figures in the Revolutionary War movement. She may have provided the behind the scenes support for the establishment of the first Presbyterian church in the Cacaphon forks area. She was the hostess for George Washington in his early travels to Hampshire County, as a young surveyor, and as General Washington, the Revolutionary War hero.

She was documented in land transactions with her husband and son, Henry. She was living at the time of the 1784 tax rolls taken for Hampshire County, as a widow. It is believed that her death occurred soon after that recording. Her youngest son, Enoch, was living near by, as was her oldest daughter, Sarah Bills.