Joshua Warren Crosby

Brief Life History of Joshua Warren

When Joshua Warren Crosby was born on 8 October 1833, in Orleans, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Captain Joshua Crosby Jr., was 23 and his mother, Thankful Baker, was 22. He married Clara Ann Snow in September 1854, in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Massachusetts, United States in 1870. He died on 1 June 1873, in Orleans, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 39, and was buried in Orleans, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States.

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Family Time Line

Joshua Warren Crosby
1833–1873
Clara Ann Snow
1833–1899
Marriage: September 1854
Warren M. Crosby
1855–
Helen M. Crosby
1857–1937
Almond Otis Crosby
1861–1899
Walter Almar Crosby
1862–1866
Ellsworth Bracket Crosby
1862–
Eva Belle Crosby
1865–1950
Adaline Snow Crosby
1867–1892
Harriet Leona Crosby
1870–1963

Sources (52)

  • Joshua W Crosby, "Massachusetts State Census, 1855"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Joshua Warren Crosby - birth: 8 October 1833; Orleans, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
  • Joshua W. Crosby, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"

World Events (6)

1836 · Remember the Alamo

Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.

1846

U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from any of various places called with Old Norse kross ‘cross’ + ‘farm, settlement’ in Lancashire, Cumberland, Westmorland, North Yorkshire, and Lincolnshire.

Irish: surname adopted by bearers of the Gaelic name Mac an Chrosáin (see McCrossen ).

History: The surname of the Irish family of Crosbie is ultimately derived from providing the chief bards to the O’Mores, Chiefs of Leix: crosán means ‘bard’ or ‘satirist’. Pádraic Mac Crosáin or Mac An Chrosáin took the Anglicized name Patrick Crosbie c. 1583.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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