{"id":771,"date":"2011-06-05T16:34:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T23:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/martin\/?p=771"},"modified":"2011-06-05T16:34:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T23:34:39","slug":"james-ross-1768-1853","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/james-ross-1768-1853\/","title":{"rendered":"James Ross (1768 &#8211; 1853)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Elder James Ross<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0Born in Martin County, 1768, Died 1853, age 85<\/p>\n<p>In his 18th year he was baptized by his brother, Martin Ross. \u00a0He labored as an Evangelist in the counties south of Roanoke and Tar rivers. \u00a0He afterwards settled in Bertie county, where her works praised him. \u00a0Having passed the unusual limit of fourscore and seven years, unable to reach the house of God, he would send for his neighbors, and dispose them the Word of Life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: \u00a0Delke, James A.\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">History of the North Carolina Chowan Baptist Association, 1806-1881<\/span>. Raleigh: Edwards, Broughton &amp; Co, 1882. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=UB7YfqIG2FUC\">Available online at Google Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elder James Ross &#8211;\u00a0Born in Martin County, 1768, Died 1853, age 85 In his 18th year he was baptized by his brother, Martin Ross. \u00a0He labored as an Evangelist in the counties south of Roanoke and Tar rivers. \u00a0He afterwards settled in Bertie county, where her works praised him. \u00a0Having passed the unusual limit of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/james-ross-1768-1853\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;James Ross (1768 &#8211; 1853)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22476],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}