• Came from Switzerland with his wife, Ursula, on the ship Underwriter in 1860. A letter from the company captain to Brigham Young indicates he died by eating bad meat.

James Darling Ross Company (1860)

• Age at Departure: 51
• Head of Household
• Died en Route

Sources

• Emigration list for Spring, 1860, Brigham Young office emigrating companies reports, 1850-1862.
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Supplement after 31 December 1860,  24.
• Ross, J.D., to Brigham Young, 1 Sept. 1860. Brigham Young office files 1832-1878, General Incoming Correspondence, reel 38, box 27, fd. 18.
• "The Immigration," Deseret News, 15 August 1860, 189.