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Family Chart No. R-8 Parents - Chart No. R-3
3rd Generation Ross Family
PATRICK AHERN
Resided at St. Vincent, Minnesota, U.S.A.
Occupation: Professor. Taught at Laval University, Quebec.
He married SARAH HARRIET ROSS.
She was second daughter of DRUMMOND and MARIA JANE (BEAMISH) ROSS.
She was baptised 10 April 1853 at St. Peter's Church, Quebec, Canada
and died 21 April 1889 at St. Vincent, Minnesota
buried at Pembina, North Dakota in Pembina Cemetery
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Children of PATRICK and SARAH (ROSS) AHERN:
BERTHA
Married RAYMOND REDHEAD at Spokane, Washington
children: RAYMOND died 1970
EGRETTA - Married
GRACE - Married SI GUTTRIDGE, Laguna Hills, Calif.
ELIZABETH - Married BENNENHOF, San Francisco, Calif.
CATHERINE - Married TED KELP, Grants Pass, Oregon
ELOISE - Married KENNETH WURMER, Grants Pass, Oregon
Died 1918 in childbirth, also her baby, during flu epidemic
JENNIE born 1881 at Montreal, Quebec
Married JOHN SALISBURY in 1899 at Spokane, Washington
He was born in 1867
children: FLORENCE - not married
ROSS - Married ROSE GENDRON - no offspring
JACK - Deceased - Graduate of Annapolis Naval Academy
HAROLD - Married LOUISE EVANS - 2 Sons, one Daughter
MARGARET - Married HAL WESTMORE - 2 Sons
RUTH - Married PAUL C. DAY - one Son
LLOYD ROBERT - Married WILMA THOMPSON - 2 Sons, 1 Daughter
Died 11 June 1968 at Spokane, Wash., age 87
BLANCH
Married McFARLANE, Spokane, Wash.
This record was compiled by Henry Ross Wiggs of Westmount Que.
10 July 1972
Sources of data: Miss Helen Ross, Loretteville, Que., Mrs. James D. Gemmell, Kelowna, B.C., and Miss Florence Salisbury, Spokane, Wash.
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SARAH HARRIET (ROSS) AHERN (1853-1889)
Sarah Harriet Ross was the second youngest daughter of Drummond Ross and Maria Jane Beamish his wife who resided at Pointe Levis, a small town on the south side of the St. Lawrence river across from the city of Quebec, where, because of poor health, Drummond worked on a farm belonging to Antoine Charles Taschereau, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada.
Although we have no exact record of where or when Sarah Ross was born, she was, like her elder sister, Clarissa, and some of her brothers, probably born at Lake Beauport, sometime in the latter part of 1852 or early 1853. She was baptized on the 10th April, 1853, in St. Peter's Anglican Church in Quebec City. She was about seven or eight years old when her father, Drummond Ross, died in his forties. Shortly after his death, his widow, Jane (Beamish) Ross, married Fleury Taschereau, a son of Charles Antoine Taschereau and Adelaide Elizabeth Fleury de la Gorgendiere, who were against the marriage. Jane, not yet forty, already had a family of ten children when she married for a second time, and by her second husband had another son, Charles Fleury Taschereau, and a daughter, Adelaide Jane, both born at Quebec.
Sometime after 1860, Fleury and Jane Taschereau left Quebec, taking the younger children with them, and they ventured west to take up residence at Pembina, North Dakota, where they were to live for the rest of their lives.
Sarah Ross married Patrick Ahern, a Roman Catholic from Quebec who turned Protestant before she would marry him. He was a professor and at one time taught at Laval University in Quebec. The date and place of their marriage is not known. They had three children, Bertha, Jennie and Blanche, and the only baptismal record we know of is that of Jennie who was born at Montreal, Quebec, in 1881.
Eventually, Patrick and Sarah Ahern went to live in St. Vincent, Minnesota, a short distance from Pembina, and her mother, Jane Taschereau, went to live with them after her husband died in Pembina. Unfortunately, the climate in Minnesota and North Dakota was too severe for Sarah Ahern and she was unable to withstand it. As a result, she developed consumption while still a young woman and died on a Sunday morning, the 21st of April, 1889, leaving her three little girls to the care of their grandmother. The funeral service took place at Grace Church, Pembina, on Monday afternoon, April 22nd, conducted by Rev. Mr. Beer, thence to Pembina Cemetery for burial.
Four months later, Jane Taschereau died. Before Sarah Ahern died, she made her sister, Catherine Poston, promise to take the children as she did not want her husband's relatives to get them and bring them up as Catholics. Consequently, Catherine Poston took the three little girls into her home, and when the Poston family moved further west to settle in Spokane, Washington, the Ahern children went with them. that was sometime in 1891.
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Little is known of their girlhood except that Jennie was one of the original pupils at Irving School in Spokane. By the time they reached their late teens, all three girls married and had families of their own.
Bertha Ahern married Raymond Redhead of Spokane, and they had one son, Raymond, who died in 1970, and five daughters, all of whom married. They were:
Egretta - her husband's name is not known.
Grace - married Si Guttridge and they now (1972) reside in Laguna Hills, California.
Elizabeth - married Bennenhof, a lawyer now retired. They reside in San Francisco, California.
Catherine - married Ted Kelp, and they reside in Grants Pass, Oregon.
Eloise - married Kenneth Wurmer, and they, too, reside in Grants Pass, as Ted Kelp and
Kenneth Wurmer have the Chevrolet Agency there.
Blanche Ahern married McFarlane of Spokane, but we have no record of either of them nor of their children.
Jennie Ahern married John Salisbury, a lawyer, in 1899, the marriage ceremony taking place at the old All Saints Cathedral (Episcopal) in Spokane. He was born in England, and his family emigrated to Canada, then to Spokane. They had seven children:
Florence - not married, living in the family home, West 1732 14th Avenue.
Ross - married Rose Gendron. No Children. Recently (1972) sold his holdings in the
Petroleum Products Company and other interests and retired.
Harold - married Louise Evans and they have three children, two boys and one daughter.
He has the Hurtz operations, airport transportation, etc., and is a Director of the
American Commercial Bank.
Margaret - married Hal Westmore, a reserve army officer, retired. They have two sons,
both married. don, the elder, is a career state department officer, has had service
in Japan, Vietnam, and is now in Washington, D. C. The younger son lives in
California, completing his education.
Ruth - married Paul C. Day, a classmate of her brother Bob's at West Point Military
Academy. He retired from the Army with the rank of Colonel in July 1971, now
living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They have a son, Paul, who majored in
journalism in college, the University of New Mexico.
Lloyd Robert - married Wilma Thompson. He graduated from West Point Military
Academy in 1941 and had an active career in the United States Army. While
on a four-year tour of duty in Germany (1964-1968), Colonel Salisbury served
successively as the Commanding Officer of the 7th Army and Assistant Deputy
Chief of Staff for Intelligence Headquarters, United States Army Europe in
Heidelberg, Germany. He returned to Washington, D. C., in 1968, and was
appointed Defence Attache and Military Advisor to the U. S. Ambassador on
the Ivory Coast, Africa. He retired with the rank of colonel in July 1972, and is
now living in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. They have two sons and a daughter.
One son, a graduate of Colgate University, is a Lieutenant Commander in the
Navy; the other son is a talented musician; and their daughter, Jan, who
graduated from Whitman College in 1972, recently married a classmate who
also graduated in 1972.
John Salisbury died in 1951, his funeral service taking place in the Episcopal cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Spokane, with burial in Riverside Cemetery. His widow, Jennie (Ahern) Salisbury, died on the 11th of June, 1968, at the age of 87. Her funeral service was held in the same Cathedral on Thursday, June 13th, 1968, with the Rev. Canon John Moulton officiating, and she was buried in Riverside cemetery beside her husband. She was survived by her three daughters, three sons, nine grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
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Mrs. Jennie Salisbury had been a resident of Spokane for 77 years, and an active member of the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist during that time. She was also a member of the Spokane Bar Association Auxiliary. According to her daughter, Florence, "she had a wonderful personality,loved people, and her Irish side was an asset. she gave her all for her family, yes, a grand matriarch of a great generation." She evidently took after her Irish grandmother, Jane Taschereau, and these same family traits were also found in her mother's brother, Henry Ross (1842-1926), who was my maternal grand-father, and his eldest daughter, Emma Clara Ross (1869-1959), who was my own mother.
July 14th, 1972 Henry Ross Wiggs
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[The following is a transcript of the funeral notice for Sarah Ross.]
DIED
At St. Vincent, Minn., Sunday morn-
ing, 8:30 o'clock April 21st, 1889.
MRS. P. AHERN.
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Funeral will leave St. Vincent at
3:30 o'clock p. m., Monday April 22d.
for Grace church, Pembina, where
services will be conducted by Rev.
Mr. Beer, at 4 o'clock, thence to the
Pembina cemetery.
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