Ross said she was hired for a very significant position soon after her first husband's death. For many years, Ross worked as a seamstress & upholsterer.
Elizabeth Ross, also recognized by her 2nd and 3rd marital identities, Ashburn and Claypoole, was an American upholsterer who, in 1870, was attributed by her family with creating the first American flag, which became known as the Betsy Ross flag. Though most academics ignore the account, Ross family legend states that in 1776, General George Washington, commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, and two directors of a house committee, Robert Morris & George Ross, paid Mrs. Ross a trip.
Mrs. Ross persuaded George Washington to modify the form of the stars in a flag drawing he presented her from six-pointed to five-pointed by showing that doing so was faster and easier to sew. There is, no archival documentation or any documented oral history to back up this narrative of the original American flag. The account appears to have first appeared in the works of her grandson in the 1870s, with no reference or verification in previous decades.