Brief Life History of Mary Hoxsie
When Mary Hoxsie Cross was born in October 1819, in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, her father, John C. Cross, was 28 and her mother, Dorcas Cross, was 28. She died on 30 October 1902, in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (6)
- Mary H Cross in household of William C Stanton, "United States Census, 1900"
- Mary Hoxsie Cross, "Rhode Island, Births and Christenings, 1600-1914"
- Mary H. Cross, "Rhode Island Deaths and Burials, 1802-1950"
Parents and Siblings
1791–1819 Male
1791–1877 Female
Siblings (1)
1819–1902 Female
World Events (8)
1820 · Making States Equal
Age 1
1820 · Making Land more affordable
Age 1
1841 · Dorr Rebellion
Age 22
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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