Brief Life History of Robert
When Robert Cross was born on 2 September 1784, in Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Nathaniel Cross, was 34 and his mother, Martha Woodman, was 33. He married Olive Neal on 2 April 1803, in Belfast, Waldo, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Jefferson Township, Richland, Ohio, United States in 1850. He died on 22 January 1859, in Bellville, Jefferson Township, Richland, Ohio, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Bellville, Jefferson Township, Richland, Ohio, United States.
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- Robert Cross, "United States Census, 1850"
- Robert Cross, "Maine, Marriages, 1771-1907"
- Robert Cross, "Find A Grave Index"
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1788 · New Hampshire Helps Ratify the US Constitution
On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth and final state needed to ratify the US Constitution and make it the official law of the land
1804
Lewis and Clark set out from St. Louis, MO to explore the West.
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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