Brief Life History of Elijah
When Elijah Cross III was born on 24 December 1823, in Sullivan, Tennessee, United States, his father, Elijah Cross II, was 32 and his mother, Catharine Ann Cook, was 28. He married Ellen A. Kington on 8 July 1855, in Anderson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in District 7, Grainger, Tennessee, United States in 1880. He died on 28 April 1893, in Tennessee, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Smith Cemetery, Oak Ridge, Anderson, Tennessee, United States.
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- Elijah Cross in household of David Cross, "United States Census, 1850"
- Elijah Cross, "Find A Grave Index"
- Elijah Cross in entry for Flora T Gardner, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"
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1825 · The Crimes Act
The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
1835 · The Hermitage is Built
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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Elijah Cross. This farmer was born in Sullivan Co., Tn, Dec 24, 1823. David and Polly (Himes) Cross, his parents, were natives of the state, the one of English-German, and the other of pure German abl …
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