The Mars and Pearl Ross Family Website was created to provide a base for  continous and regular affordable communication. Here we can update our family  tree, share current events and photos, and educate the generations present and  future on who`s, who. We are so spread out across America and many of us have  yet to even meet each other, but here we can become one and keep in touch and  share a unique common interest, as well as expressions of love for each other,  because we are family......
                                    A BRIEF HISTORY
 Mars Ross and Pearl Newton through the blessing of God were brought together in  holy matrimony in 1906. They settled together as husband and wife in Mt.Olive,  Arkansas ( a settlement) and their birthplace and soon started a family. They  brought into this world eight children, six girls and 2 boys. Pearl was a very  fine cook and an exceptional seamstress (she made all of her children`s  clothes). The children were educated at the Hopewell School. Mars was a farmer  as were most of the men back then, but he was best known for his skills in  hunting and shooting. As the children grew and married they settled in towns  and cities in Arkansas and across the United States such as Hamburg, AK.,  Ingalls, AK., Chicago, IL and Houston, TX. and many have continued to follow  their deep-rooted Methodist faith, which was an intregal part of the family`s  spiritual life and beliefs. Viola, the oldest child and daughter started the  Ross Family Picnic which has become a tradition and now is held every two  years, along with a family banquet, in a huge Family Reunion Celebration. It is  then that we reflect back on our history and remember our love ones who are now  gone, but never forgotten.