Clarke, Elizabeth Ross,narrative [ca. 1920]

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Clarke, Elizabeth Ross,narrative [ca. 1920]

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The Elizabeth Ross Clarke Narrative,[ca. 1920], contains Clarke’s biography of her father Sul Ross and his fatherShapley Prince Ross entitled, . YA-A-H-H-OO, Warwhoop ofthe Comanches: The Cry that Struck Terror to the Hearts of the Pioneers in theEarly Days of Texas.

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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One of nine children, Elizabeth Ross Clarke (b. 1878) was the daughter of Lawrence Sullivan Sul Ross (1838-1898) and the former Elizabeth Dorothy Tinsley. Sul Ross was the son of Shapley Prince Ross (1811-1889) and his wife Catherine, who moved to Texas in 1839. After serving in the Texas Rangers (1842-1847), Shapley settled in Waco, where he built the town’s first hotel, served as its first postmaster (1850), and was an Indian agent (1855-1858). Upon graduating from Wes...

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Soldier, governor, and university president Lawrence Sullivan (Sul) Ross (1838-1898) was born in the Iowa Territory and immigrated to Texas in 1839. After earning his A.B. from Wesleyan University in Florence, Alabama in 1859, Ross joined the Texas Rangers, initially as a lieutenant and later as a captain. Ross' fame in Texas greatly increased when, during the battle of the Pease River, his company rescued Cynthia Ann Parker. In 1861, he married Elizabeth Dorothy Tinsley, and prompt...