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| birth_date = March 1, 1783
| birth_place = Beaufort County, North Carolina
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| father = Benjamin Ross (1736-1823)
| mother = Prudence Redditt (c1747-1819)
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* [[John Bowen Ross (1821-1894)|John Bowen Ross]]
* [[Henry Blount Ross (1830-1903)|Henry Blount Ross]]
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'''Rev. Lemuel H. Ross''' (March 1, 1783 – 1836) was a son of [[Benjamin Ross (1736-1823)|Benjamin Ross]] and Prudence Redditt. He carries the honorific "Rev." in project genealogical records, though no record of his ministry or denomination has been located in the sources reviewed for this article. He is documented as Benjamin's son in an 1823 Beaufort County land deed — the most direct piece of documentary evidence for any parent-child relationship in this generation of the family.

== DNA evidence ==

=== Y-DNA ===
No documented direct male-line descendant of Lemuel H. Ross has taken a Y-DNA test as of this writing. See [[Benjamin Ross (1736-1823)#Y-DNA|Benjamin Ross]] for the status of Y-DNA testing within this family generally.

=== Autosomal DNA ===


== Biography ==
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=== Early life ===
Lemuel Ross was born March 1, 1783 in Beaufort County, North Carolina, a son of Benjamin Ross and Prudence Redditt.

In 1823, the year of Benjamin Ross's death, a Beaufort County land deed recorded a transaction between Benjamin Ross and Lemuel Ross in which Benjamin names Lemuel as his "son" — the clearest documentary proof located for this article of any parent-child relationship within Benjamin Ross's family.<ref name="deed-lemuel">"Beaufort. Deeds 1823–1829, 1829–1831, Mortgages 1823–1829, 1829–1831," FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99DB-DQY), land deed between Benjamin Ross and Lemuel Ross, Beaufort County, North Carolina, 1823.</ref>

=== Ancestors ===
{{Ancestors & descendants chart
|2=Benjamin Ross (1736-1823)
|3=Prudence Redditt (c1747-1819)
|6=William Redditt (1712-1784)
|7=Susan Reed Cobb (1713-1781)
|descendants=
*'''Lemuel H. Ross (1783-1836)'''
** [[John Bowen Ross (1821-1894)]]
** [[Henry Blount Ross (1830-1903)]]
}}
Lemuel H. Ross was a son of [[Benjamin Ross (1736-1823)|Benjamin Ross]] and Prudence Redditt. See [[Benjamin Ross (1736-1823)#Disputed origins|Disputed origins]] regarding Benjamin's own contested relationship to [[John Ross the Immigrant]].

=== Marriage and children ===
No spouse is documented for Lemuel H. Ross. His children:
* John Bowen Ross (b. 1821, d. 1894)
* Henry Blount Ross (b. 1830, d. 1903)

=== Occupation ===
Recorded with the honorific "Rev." in project genealogical records; no further detail on his ministry has been located in the sources reviewed for this article.

=== Military ===


=== Death & burial ===
Lemuel Ross died in 1836. He has an entry in the BillionGraves cemetery index<ref name="billiongraves-lemuel">"Lemuel Ross," BillionGraves Index, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2SY-ZSF4).</ref> and in the Find a Grave index, the latter also recording 1836 as his death year;<ref name="findagrave-lemuel">"Lemuel Ross," Find a Grave Index, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV25-2QFW).</ref> neither index entry gives a specific burial place.

=== Timeline ===
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== Research notes ==

=== Disputed origins ===
Of the three sons of Benjamin Ross covered in this project, Lemuel Ross's parentage rests on the strongest direct documentary footing: the 1823 land deed in which Benjamin Ross explicitly names Lemuel as his son.<ref name="deed-lemuel" /> See [[Benjamin Ross (1736-1823)#Disputed origins|Benjamin Ross]] for the broader, unresolved question of Benjamin's own place in this family and his relationship (if any) to [[John Ross the Immigrant]].

== Common discrepancies ==
* This man is frequently at risk of confusion with his grand-nephew Lemuel Hiram Ross (b. 1861) — son of his brother John Riley Ross's son Riley Ross — the 1912 Sons of the American Revolution applicant; see the hatnote above and [[Benjamin Ross (1736-1823)#Common discrepancies|Benjamin Ross]].

== Sources ==
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