Lina Mae (the middle name is misspelled on the gravestone) was born in St. Michaels, Maryland, on the Eastern Shore. As a young woman, she taught school in Talbot County for a while, before marrying Walter A. Ross of Baltimore. She was then 28, an unusually advanced age for a first marriage at that time. The Rosses had three daughters, Louise, Hilda, and Elinor. Louise died after her frilly party dress caught fire from a candle on her 10th birthday cake. The family then relocated to Charlottesville, Va., where Walter worked For several drugstores. He and a partner opened their own drugstore on Main Street in Charlottesville, but it failed in the Depression and the men lost everything. Walter and Lina ended up renting in a house on Park Street in Charlottesville until they moved in with their son-in-law and daughter, Charles E. and Elinor Crawford. Lina outlived Walter by 15 years.
Lina Mae (the middle name is misspelled on the gravestone) was born in St. Michaels, Maryland, on the Eastern Shore. As a young woman, she taught school in Talbot County for a while, before marrying Walter A. Ross of Baltimore. She was then 28, an unusually advanced age for a first marriage at that time. The Rosses had three daughters, Louise, Hilda, and Elinor. Louise died after her frilly party dress caught fire from a candle on her 10th birthday cake. The family then relocated to Charlottesville, Va., where Walter worked For several drugstores. He and a partner opened their own drugstore on Main Street in Charlottesville, but it failed in the Depression and the men lost everything. Walter and Lina ended up renting in a house on Park Street in Charlottesville until they moved in with their son-in-law and daughter, Charles E. and Elinor Crawford. Lina outlived Walter by 15 years.
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