Moross, Victor

7/17/1787

Detroit, Michigan

Roman Catholic

According to the obituaries of Columbus Victor Moross and Mame Moross Roosevelt, Victor served in the War of 1812. Mame's says he was a captain in the militia, and his commission was signed by Governor Cass. However, in a letter to Ralph Moross Roosevelt, dated July 3, 1930, the adjutant general of the war department said " The name Victor Moross or Moras has not been found on the rolls of any organization in the service of the United States during the War of 1812." Neither does it appear on a complete listing of all pension claims filed for the War of 1812, according to John Ward Wilson Loose, Counsellor General of the General Society of the War of 1812.


In his will, written in 1859 and probated in 1863, Victor left all his property to Terese for a lifetime. After her death the farm was divided between the girls and the lot on Jefferson was to be divided between the three sons.

The reason why their may be two or more spellings of the Moross last name is due to lack of education of that time period, therefore in the records their may be the spelling of the last name as:Moross, Morass, Maross, Morris, Maras and Morrow depending upon who wrote the name in the records during that time

During the hysteria of the cholera epidemic that affected the American troops in 1814, he rescued a man who was buried alive with a mass grave of troops.

Owned a farm on Detroit's East side (roughly between Baldwin and Van Dyke, from Jefferson to above Gratiot)

Owned a Tavern that sold whiskey but after a combination of a warning from Fr. Gabriel Richard and a terrible storm which left the house untouched except for the tavern sign was reduced to splinters, Victor never sold liquor again

Nicolas Moross

Marie-Ann Boye

Teresa Poissant dit Lasaline, m. 11/4/1817, Assumption, Canada

Teresa (b. 8/13/1818)
Victor (b. 8/19/1820)
Christopher (b. 3/1/1822)
Emily (b. 9/19/1824)
Columbus (b. 12/25/1826)
Mary Ann (b. 8/26/1829)
Anthony Cleophas (b. 3/26/1832)
Mary Ann Adelaide (b. 12/16/1834)

Borthers: Ignace; Antoine; Joseph, Antoine Medard
Sisters: Mary Ann, Monique; Victoria

American