Gladys Ilene Paul

Brief Life History of Gladys Ilene

When Gladys Ilene Paul was born in March 1899, in Missouri, United States, her father, William Howard Paul, was 35 and her mother, Mary Jane Hopson, was 32. She married Micajah Cage Cornelius Cross Jr. on 27 April 1919, in Desha, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons. She lived in McGehee, Desha, Arkansas, United States for about 15 years and Big Rock Township, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States in 1940. She died on 2 March 1988, in Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States.

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Family Time Line

Micajah Cage Cornelius Cross Jr.
1887–1973
Gladys Ilene Paul
1899–1988
Marriage: 27 April 1919
Micajah "Cage" Cross III
1920–1978
John Robert Cross
1923–1995
Junius Bracy Cross
1926–2014
Howard Paul Cross
1928–2023

Sources (22)

  • Gladys Cross, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Gladys Cross, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
  • Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957

World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.

1904 · William H. Fuller Grows 70 Acres of Rice

Rice is one Arkansas leading crops, in 1904 William H. Fuller planted 70 acres of rice, this act is what started the making rice the leading crop in Arkansas.

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

Name Meaning

English, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, West Indian (mainly Haiti, also e.g. Saint Lucia), and African (mainly Nigeria and Tanzania): from the personal name Paul (from Latin Paulus ‘small’), which has always been popular in Christendom. It was the name adopted by the Pharisee Saul of Tarsus after his conversion to Christianity on the road to Damascus in about AD 34. He was a most energetic missionary to the Gentiles in the Roman Empire, and played a very significant role in establishing Christianity as a major world religion. The name was borne also by numerous other early Christian saints. It is also occasionally borne by Jews; the reasons for this are not clear. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed many cognates from other languages and their patronymics and other derivatives, e.g. Greek Pavlis , Slovenian Pavel and Pavlič (see Pavlic ), Polish Paweł (see Pawel ) and Pawlicki , Assyrian/Chaldean Polous and Polus . In France, this surname is most common in Brittany (see 2 below).

Breton (mainly Finistère): from a Frenchified form of the personal name Paol, Breton form of Paul .

Irish: shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Phóil ‘son of Paul’. Compare McFall .

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

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