William Sanford Ross

Will Sanford Ross was born June 25, 1874 to Branson M. and Susan Terhune Ross in Bethany, Missouri. He was age 13 in 1887 when the family moved to Post Falls, Idaho. After helping run his parents’ 500-acre orchard at Ross Point, he moved to the Kittitas valley in 1905. His oldest sister Emma had been there since 1883 when she married into the Rego family. Will was married first to Bertha Knox in Post Falls in 1899, and to Norna E. Roth of Twin Lakes, Idaho in 1907. Will and Norna farmed and ranched four places in the valley. The home place from 1905 to 1959, was the Olof Hansen homestead on Hanson Rd. Will built a barn there and two others over the years. They kept a second house in Thorp so the kids could walk to school. Retiring from farming at age 85, he died at age 94 in Ellensburg on March 4, 1969. (Photo 1963)

1963

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