 Ross died in Washington, D.C., at the age of 101.Born Nellie Davis Tayloe in St. Joseph, Missouri, Ross was the sixth child and first daughter of James Wynns Tayloe, a native of Stewart County, Tennessee, and his wife, Elizabeth Blair Green, who owned a plantation on the Missouri River.In 1884, when Ross was seven years of age, her family moved to Miltonvale in Cloud County in northern Kansas.