Brief Life History of Louisa "Eliza"
When Louisa "Eliza" Cross was born on 18 March 1844, in Meigs, Ohio, United States, her father, Stephen Cross, was 35 and her mother, Mrs Cross, was 30. She married William Carpenter about 1867, in Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She lived in York Township, Athens, Ohio, United States in 1910 and Green Township, Hocking, Ohio, United States in 1920. She died on 14 June 1927, in Hocking, Ohio, United States, at the age of 83.
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- Eliza Six in household of Jacob Six, "United States Census, 1900"
- Eliza Cross, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Laura Cross in entry for Robert Samuel Six, "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1860 · Ohio supports the Union side of the Civil War
Although divided as a state on the subject of slavery, Ohio participated in the Civil War on the Union's side, providing over 300,000 troops. Ohio provided the 3rd largest number of troops by any Union state.
1866 · The First Civil Rights Act
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
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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