Brief Life History of Ebenezer B.
When Ebenezer B. Cross was born on 23 June 1828, in Shelby, Indiana, United States, his father, Peter Cross, was 39 and his mother, Sarah Davis, was 31. He married Pleasant Anna Headlee on 2 November 1851, in Shelby, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Pleasant Ridge Township, Livingston, Illinois, United States in 1870 and Carpenter Township, Jasper, Indiana, United States in 1880.
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- E B Ciass, "United States Census, 1870"
- Ebenezer B Cross, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007"
- Ebenezer Cross in household of Ruth Cross, "United States Census, 1850"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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Historical Boundaries 1830: Shelby, Indiana, United States
1861 · Simple life to Soldiers
Illinois contributed 250,000 soldiers to the Union Army, ranking it fourth in terms of the total men fighting for a single state. Troops mainly fought in the Western side of the Appalachian Mountains, but a few regiments played important roles in the East side. Several thousand Illinoisians died during the war. No major battles were fought in the state, although several towns became sites for important supply depots and navy yards. Not everyone in the state supported the war and there were calls for secession in Southern Illinois several residents. However, the movement for secession soon died after the proposal was blocked.
Name Meaning
English: topographic name for someone who lived near a cross, such as one set up by the roadside or in a marketplace, from Middle English cros (Old English cros and Old Norse kross, ultimately from Latin crux, crucem). It is commonly Latinized in medieval records as ad crucem and de Cruce but examples of this can just as well belong to the synonymous but less common name Crouch . In a few cases the surname may have been given originally to someone who lived by a crossroads, but this sense of the word seems to have been a comparatively late development. In other cases, the surname (and its European cognates; see 3 below) may have denoted someone who carried the cross in processions of the Christian Church, but in English at least the usual word for this sense was Crozier .
Irish: shortened form of McCrossen .
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘cross’ or ‘the cross’, such as French Lacroix , German Kreutz , and Slovenian and Croatian Križ (see Kriz ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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