In the West Ross helped write a constitution (1839) for the United Cherokee Nation. The lands lay in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia. McLean's advice was to "remove and become a Territory with a patent in fee simple to the nation for all its lands, and a delegate in Congress, but reserving to itself the entire right of legislation and selection of all officers." The children of John Golden Ross and Elizabeth Ross were: 1) William Potter Ross m. Mary Jane Ross 2) Daniel Hicks Ross m. Catherine Gunther 3) Eliza Jane Ross 4) John Anderson Ross m. Eliza Wilkerson 5) Elnora Ross m. Nellie Potts 6) Lewis Anderson Ross. Second various families took the name from the province of Ross in northern Scotland and other places of that name. Ross made several proposals; however, the Cherokee Nation may not have approved any of Ross' plans, nor was there reasonable expectation that Jackson would settle for any agreement short of removal. Inquiring the cause, she learned it was the fear of a repetition of the previous days experience. The State had also two representatives in the delegation, to assert old claims and attain the object. The Creek chief Opotohleyohola, whose memory of past wrongs was bitter, said he must fight the Georgians; and he did, with the aid of loyal Cherokees, by a successful and daring attack. Both Pathkiller and Hicks saw Ross as the future leader of the Cherokee Nation and trained him for this work. McIntosh, a shrewd Creek chief with a Cherokee wife, who had. Elected auditor by the Federal Cherokee Council on 18 Oct 1863 and elected Senator from Tahlequah Dist. Colonel Meigs, the Indian Agent, feared the effect of employing Indians to remove the white intruders, but applied to the chiefs Hicks and Pathkiller, who consented to let them take the field. After Jane's first husband Return J. Meigs IV died, she married Andrew Ross Nave (1822-1863). Marriage to Jennie Quatie Fields: (1835 Age: 18). Elspeth (Isobel) Macleod 1743 1835. On this occasion, Johns mother had dressed him in his first suit after the style of civilized life made of nankeen. In 183839 Ross had no choice but to lead his people to their new home west of the Mississippi River on the journey that came to be known as the infamous Trail of Tears. He wrote to John Ross, offering $18,000 from the United States Com missioners for a specified amount of land, using as an argument the affair with the Creeks. His sacrifice, so far as the commercial estimate is concerned, in slaves which had come to him from those left him by a grandfather, of whom he was a great favorite, was $50,000. Others urged the necessity of having interpreters and persons among them acquainted with the improvements of their civilized neighbors. Charles H. Hicks, a chief, and Ross, went into the woods alone, and, seated on a log, conferred sadly together over a form of reply to the terms of treaty as expounded. Lewis Cass, Secretary of War, believing that this was yet another ploy to delay action on removal for an additional year, threatened to sign the treaty with John Ridge. John Ross - Historical records and family trees - MyHeritage Col. Meigs then deputed John Ross to go with additional gifts, and see them all delivered to the Cherokees. Rather than accept Calhoun's ultimatum, Ross made a bold departure from previous negotiations. Their home was near Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga.