John Thomas Ross, b. 1872 in Martin Co., NC, son of James Reuben Ross (b. 1828) and Margaret Coburn (b. 1832). In 1878, James Reuben Ross bought the Pompey William (Billy) Rogers house.
A local newspaper stated that upwards of seventy Quaker families have moved from Wayne and Carteret Counties to Indiana, since the passage of the NC law that stated Quakers had to do military duty.