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Rev. Enoch Elijah Ross, Sr. baptizing in a river in the 1930s on the Griffith League sharecropping farm in Chisholm, TX where he raised his family and served as pastor of Griffith League COGIC.
Rev. Enoch and Adell (Bryant) Ross with their children in front of the home they owned in Dallas, TX.
Big Mama's mother on left -- Mary (Hartsfield) Bryant
Rev. Enoch Elijah Ross, Sr. baptizing in a river in the 1930s on the Griffith League sharecropping farm in Chisholm, TX where he raised his family and served as pastor of Griffith League COGIC.
Family Tree
From papa's parents Tom and Mary Ann (Smiley) Ross to Big Mama's grandparents Charlie and Emmaline Bryant, the Ross Family has grown to more than 500 members since the 1860s.
Other family members include the Hartsfields of East Texas (Cherokees), the Ross-Lacys of Mt. Enterprise, TX (Scottish), and an African woman (Big Mama's maternal grandmother) possibly named "Josephine" who was reportedly brought to the U.S. at age 9 in 1849.
Josephine later had a child named Mary with a Cherokee with the reservation name Henry Hartsfield. Mary married Rev. John Bryant, Charlie and Emmaline's son, and raised their children, including Big Mama, on an 80-acre farm they owned in Mt. Enterprise, TX. The family still holds about 40 acres.
Ross Family
1930s-present
From Chisholm to Dallas to Los Angeles