title: Sherry Ross (pioneer)
text: # Sherry Ross (pioneer)
  
  Sherry Ross (February 11, 1824 – January 4, 1867) was an Oregon pioneer and the namesake of Ross Island and Ross Island Bridge in Portland, Oregon.
  
  Ross arrived in the Oregon Country in 1845, part of a train of 200 wagons that branched off of the Oregon Trail via the Meek Cutoff. Ross filed a provisional land claim in 1846 on a parcel of roughly 400 acres surrounded by the Willamette River, a location later known as Ross Island.
  
  In 1851 Ross married Rebecca Deardorff, an 1850 immigrant to the Oregon Territory.
  
  Ross operated a dairy farm on Ross Island and was listed as a livery stable owner at 165 First Street in early Portland.
  
  