In Bishops History of Roane County:
Isaac Newton Ross married Elizabeth Tawney, daughter of the pioneer family of Tawney's of Upper Sandy, and made a good farm and raised a family of children on it. His first public service was that of school teacher, which he followed the first years of his young manhood; was a member of the county board of teachers' examiners several times, about the years 1881-82-83; was elected and served one term, four years, as Commissioner of the County Court, its president for the year 1907 or 1908, during which time the court began the erection of iron bridges and a general imporvement of the county roads.
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