How many times was Betsy Ross married?
She married 3 people. Is this what you want to know? This what i looked up and i found out that she married three people. Look it up also on Yahoo.com that is where i got my answer.
What was the cause of Betsy Ross' death?
She died in her sleep of natural causes, at 84. 84 was a long time to live back then.
What did Betsy Ross do for a living in Philadelphia?
She opened a sewing shop two years after she married John Ross.
What did Betsy Ross look like?
We don't know for sure what Betsy Ross looked like. Her grandson, William Canby hired Charles H. Weisgerber to paint the picture of Betsy Ross with the flag. The painter used a composite of the female relatives.
Who was Betsy Ross' first daughter?
she had kids named
Zilla, Eliza, Clarissa, Susan, , Rachel, Jane, and Harriet. Zilla and Harriet died at young ages Harriet died at 8 months.
Did Betsy Ross win any awards?
The Betsy Ross Award, is a Certificate of Appreciation that was awarded to Susan Guinther (now Stevenson) on November 8, 2000 for her "outstanding effort in creating a Two-Star Marine Corps flag for the visiting MGEN Jack Davis, Commanding General, 4th Marine Division" when one was not available otherwise.
What was the name of the school that Betsy Ross went to?
Betsy Ross went to a Quaker rich school when she was growing up.
When was Betsy Ross a upholsterers?
Betsy Ross owned an upholstery shop together with her husband, John Ross. They opened the shop in Philadelphia after they were married in 1775.
Who sewed the first American flag according to legend?
According to legend, Betsy Ross living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the time of the American Revolution, is generally credited for originating and sewing the American flag.
What year was the first American flag made?
The legend says the Betsy Ross was asked by George Washington to create a flag ( it has never been proved Betsy Ross made the flag) , at first the flag was only used to signal and show others that people were for the patriots during the American Revolution, The flag was actually adopted for the country as a national flag at the start of the civil war at Fort Sumter
Betsy Ross was the 8th child of 17. Born on January 1st 1752. Her religion was a Quaker. Quakers could not play cards they could not listen or dance to music. When they grew up they had to marry another Quaker. Also they had plain dresses. Betsy or Elisabeth Griscom (that's the name she was born with) learned how to sew from her great aunt
How many stars and stripes were on the flag that Betsy Ross?
There were 13 stars representing the 13 colonies .
How old was Betsy Ross when she made the flag?
No. This is a story her grandson made up. Congress gives credit to Francis Hopkinson who designed the flag. The first flag was made for the navy in 1776 and it was a basic British flag with stripes. The second flag had stars where the British flag had a cross.
The Catholic Reformation is the European religious movement that caused many groups to eventually move into the new world to worship freely.
What are facts about Betsy Ross?
Betsy Ross was born New Years Day 1752.
She died 30 January, 1836.
She had 7 children.
At age 21, she eloped across the Delaware River to New Jersey, and was married in a tavern.
She was the 8th child born in a family of 17 children.
She has been buried in three different locations.
A bridge in Philadelphia is named for her.
She might not have created the first American flag.
How did Betsy Ross help during the revolutinary war?
She didn't make the flag. This is a story her grandson made up in 1870. Congress gives credit to Francis Hopkinson who designed the flag. The first flag was made for the navy in 1776 and it was a basic British flag with stripes. The second flag had stars where the British flag had a cross.
Where did Betsy Ross go to high school and college?
She did not go to college, but studied to be a upholsterer.
What important things that Betsy Ross did?
She owned an upholstery buisness with her husband John Ross,made the first stars and stripes flag, and she even had seven kids....She also got married 3 times but all her husbands died!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Famous sayings that Betsy Ross said?
" Today the American knight holds the commercial supremacy of the world." - Betsy Ross Ashburn Claypoole
Famous patriot Betsy Ross was married 3 times and bore at least 7 daughters. By most accounts, her first husband, John Ross, was killed in the revolution before they could have any children. However, there is some rumor that the couple may have bore a daughter who died in infancy, although it is not too well-documented.
After being widowed and, by most accounts, childless at 24, she married her second husband Joseph Ashburn in 1777. They had two daughters, Zilla and Eliza, but only Eliza survived infancy. Unfortunately, her Ashburn also died in a British prison without ever having met either one.
Last, she married her third husband John Claypoole in 1783. Together, they had 5 more daughters. Clarissa, Susan, Rachel and Jane lived full lives, but Harriet died before she was a year old. Claypoole himself passed away in 1817 and Betsy in 1836.
Why did Betsy Ross make the first flag?
Ross did not make the flag. This is a story made up by her grandson and is not true. A man by the name of Francis Hopkins was commissioned by the navy in 1776 to make a flag. Congress has reconginized this as the first flag.
What did Betsy Ross do for fun?
Betsy ross did have some hobbies and two were sewing and un-sewing materials
Where is the first American flag located?
The answer is Congress.
Congress thinks the American flag is imporant because it represent the nation. I love to read sex stories!!!