George Washington CROSE

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• FamilySearch ID: 2762-HZY
• _UID: A95C879C6F0E48FA80FAAB0D60BB427AF072

Notes:

Betty Martin reports children were Samuel and Priscilla Crose, named after parents.

Was part indian.

Was a confederate cavalry soldier, captured in Civil War.

Died as a POW in Union camp, probably of yellow fever epidemic.
Located: Austin Branch Road 2.5 miles west of its intersection with 25th Street in Hempstead

Several Confederate military facilities were positioned near Hempstead (2.5 mi. w), an important railroad junction, during the Civil War. Camp Groce (then about 6 mi. e) was a prisoner-of-war stockade established on the plantation of Leonard Waller Groce (1806-1873). Union Army prisoners who died at various camps were buried hear this site on the McDade Plantation, adjacent to the McDade family cemetery (about 25 yds. ne). The cemeteries were near a narrow gauge spur off the "Austin Branch" of the Houston & Texas Central Railroad, built from Houston in 1858. A yellow fever epidemic in 1864 resulted in many deaths at Camp Groce and other camps, chronicled by Aaron T. Sutton (1841-1927). a Union prisoner in Company B, 83rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Sutton noted in his journal the presence of more than 100 fresh graves here soon after his arrival at Camp Groce in 1864. Sutton later escaped from the stockade and made his way to Beaumont (115 mi. e) on foot. Crude crosses made of cedar limbs marked the prisoners' graves through the early 1900s, according to local residents. But the stream-fed woodland was cleared in the 1940s for pasture land, and all surface evidence of the cemetery was lost.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Samuel CROSE
2. Priscilla CROSE

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• FamilySearch ID: L7LJ-ZFM
• _UID: EEF6D8774846483D9ABBE762E211CE680D7C

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Found in 1830 Census in Pike County, Missouri.

Samuel married Priscilla WHITE on 29 Mar 1822 in Nicholas, Kentucky. Priscilla (daughter of John WHITE and Gracy ROBERTS) was born on 9 Mar 1805 in Nicholas, Kentucky; died in 1880 in Missouri. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: GM25-74L
• _UID: 2310D969282E4320B3819335698AE803089A
• Residence: 1850, Prairie Township, Randolph, Missouri
• Residence: 1870, Prairie Township, Randolph, Missouri
• Residence: 1880, Prairie, Randolph, Missouri

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Found as head of household in 1840 Census with children.

Michael Payne reports Priscilla White was Indian. May be related to the Hubbard line.

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• FamilySearch ID: L85Z-VK5
• _UID: 4D76B94F35FC4A5A95B8D0961BD5E28CB1F2

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Michael Crose was born 1765, died June 21, 1819 on his farm located on Hinkston Creek and Long Branch near East Union, Kentucky. His farm was in Bourbon and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky although records are in Bourbon County. Michael married his niece Mary Ross, born 1769 in Hardy County, West Virginia, daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth (Crose) Ross. They were married in 1786.

They were both members of the German Baptist or Dunkard Church. They both spoke the German language and brought their German Bible with them to Kentucky about 1796.
They built a church at the forks of Somerset Creek is Nicholas County, which they named East Union, and in which they preached in the German language.

The Crose family built their home on the south bank of Hinkston Creek, opposite the mouth of Long Branch. The house was still standing in 1977.

Michael Crose died in 1819 and an administration was taken out on his estate on August 17, 1819. See Book F, page 288, old deed records of Bourbon County. Mary was living with her son-in-law, Covington Utterback, in 1850, aged 81 years, according to United States Census of that date.

Michael married Mary "Polly" ROSS about 1786 in Hardy County, Virginia. Mary (daughter of Stephen ROSS and Elizabeth CROSE) was born in 1769 in Hampshire County, Virginia; died on 13 Sep 1852 in Bourbon County, Kentucky; was buried in Crose Cemetery, Bourbon, Kentucky. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: L7LJ-HZ4
• Name: Polly
• _UID: AAE2B558145D45F0B1C039ACC7D8C1392E26
• Residence: 1850, Bourbon county, part of, Bourbon, Kentucky
• Residence: 1850, District 1, Bourbon, Kentucky

Notes:

Found in several census...

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• FamilySearch ID: GJB8-GBW
• Name: Thomas WHITELAW
• _UID: 19C13C5875A44FAE8DFFFAB116A53DC67994

Notes:

This information was given me by genealogist Beth Wilson---Howard County Probate Record Volume 3
1833-1843, page 430, 9, Nov.1842
George W. Coso(?) minor heir of Samuel Coso, deceased, over the age of 14 years came into Court and made choice of David White as his guardian, ordered that he give bond in the sum of $100.00.

next entry--
"The Court receives the bond given by David White as guardian for George W. Cross with Wan(?) Green and Robert Lynch as his securities.

David White was Priscilla White Crose's brother.

John married Gracy ROBERTS on 10 Apr 1794 in Madison, Kentucky. Gracy (daughter of Nathan William ROBERTS, Sr. and Hannah LOGSDON) was born on 10 Apr 1774 in Rowan County, North Carolina, British Colony; died in 1831 in Clark, Arkansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: GMRL-54F
• Name: Prudence G ROBERTS
• _UID: FF57A07582A24B68817D7F9CAAA0D1AD23AE
• Residence: 1830, Caddo, Clark, Arkansas Territory

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• FamilySearch ID: L68Y-9KW
• LifeSketch: ; Christian Crose can be found on the 1st cenus of 1782, List of Vincent Williams Gent, Hampshire Co, Va. show 11 members.
• _UID: 7048D21ACDD647CC91FF43450488BFA764FF

Notes:

"Information from Howard Crose" Sent to me by Linda Crose in 2000.

Christian Crose can be found on the 1st cenus of 1782, List of Vincent Williams Gent, Hampshire Co, Va. show 11 members.

Christian disinherited Michael Crose his son because Michael married his sisters daughter (his niece), however Christian gave Michael's share to his children and grandchildren.

Solomon Crose (Christian's son) states that Christian and Barbara Crose were both born in Virginia.

The Crose Family pioneers started with Christian Crose as the partiarch of the family in Augusta county, VA. Then Frederick Co. Va. was formed from Orange and Augusta Counties in 1728-43. Hampshire Co. Va. was formed from Frederick Co. in 1754. Hardy Co.,Va. was formed from Hampshire Co. in 1785. The present Grant Co, WV was formed from Hardy Co. in 1866. Early records have Christian Crose in all of the above counties but yet he has lived on Patterson Creek near Williamsport, WV since the first record in 1757.

In year 1757, Christian Crose had in his household, his wife and three children, Elizabeth, Henry, and Philip. During the French and Indian Wars his family and his neighbors would travel over the mountains nine miles to Fort Pleasant now known as Fort Old Fields. The Shawnee Indians in 1754, the year Hampshire County was formed, were the indians who attacked the area between the Hardy County Area and the Monongalia River to the West.

In the spring of 1756, one of the marauding groups of indians, of about sixty of seventy warriors, said to be under the leadership of Shawnee Chief Killbuck, raided a home about 15 miles up the "South Fork of the river Wappatomake", killed and scalped one woman, a Mrs. John Brake, and took another, a Mrs. Neff, prisoner.

The log cabin that Christian Crose built and lived in was burned by the Confederates during the Civil War. Another log cabin was built and still referred to as the Croses Cabin. The second log cobin was torn down in 1973 and a mobile home rests on its foundation. The fresh water spring that was used by Christian Crose is still in use today.

Exerts from Christian Crose will Quote "Also my will is that my son Michael Crose shall have no part in his possession but that his children shall have his part of share which is to equal the share of each of the -- residue of my children." Michael Crose, it is assumed, married his niece Mary Ross against the wishes of his father Christian Crose.
Spouse:
Barbara STUMP
Birth1730, Virgina
DeathSep 1830, Grant Co., West Virginia Age: 100

Virginia Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850 Record
Name: Christian Crose
Date: Dec 10, 1757
Location: Augusta Co., VA
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.
Remarks: Christian Doscher's (Dosher, Dorcher) appraisement, by Michael Stump, Leonard Neave, Peter Horse. Due by Charles Wilson, Christian Crose. Due Wm. Darline, John Welton and Anthony Reager.
Description: Debtor
Book_Date: WB2-306


Will of Christian Crose (Source: Henry A. Harmann in e-mail dtd 26 May 2007. Henry was the one who located and Christian's will in the county records).

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN
I Christian Croose of Hardy County and State of Virginia being in a low state of health at present but in my perfect senses and memory and state of health at present but in my perfect senses and memory and considering the uncertainty of human life and that necessary for all persons so to despose of their affairs in their lifetime as may prevent and disents amongst relations after their death to perfect the same as much as may be in my own family. I think proper to give dismiss aand dispose of my estate in the following manner and form.
TO WIT; First of all I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Barbara Croose one horse and sadle one cow one bed and furniture of her own choosing as her own property.
Secondly the residue of my moveable effeccts to be sold by my Executors and my just debts together with my funeral expenses be paid.
Thirdly I will to my daughter Elisabeth twenty dollars also to my daughter Mary ten dollars as their part or full shares of my whole estate. Also my Will is that my son Michael Croose shall have no part in his possession but that his children shall have his part of share which is to equal the share of each of the ---residue of my children and further I also will that Adam Croose shall have my lands and maintain my wife Barbara Croose so long as she liveth and at her death I will my lands to be sold and the money to be divided equally between the residue of my children...Giving Michael Crooses children his part....
Also, I do hereby constitute and appoint Jacob Tevebough and Adam Croose my Executors to this my Last Will and do hereby revoke and disallow all other former testaments wills or bequests declareing this and no other to be my last will and testament--and in witness hereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal.
Ammo Domini--one thousand eight hundred and in the 3rd year of the commonwealth 9th September.
Signed SEaled and Acknowledged in the /s/ Christian Gross SEAL
presents of
/s/ James Machin
/s/ Geo Harness Junr
/s/ Adam Harness
At a court held for Hardy County the 8th day of February 1814. This Last Will and Testament of Christian Crose deced. was presented in Court by Jacob Tevebough and Adam Crose the Executors therein named and proved by the oaths of James Machin and Adam Harness two of the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. And on the motion of the said Executors certificate is granted them for obtaining and probate thereof in this form they having taken the oath of executors and together with James Miles their security entered into and acknowledged a bond in the penalty of three thousand dollars conditioned as the law directs.
Teste
/s/ Ed Williams ce

Henry A. Harmann supplied additional support regarding precisely who the children of Christian Crose were in email dtd 27 May 2007:
"Christian Crose mentions in his Last Will and Testament four children: He mentions dauhters Elizabeth and Mary. sons Michael and Adam. His son Solmon Crose and his wife Catherine came in for their one seventh share in Deed Book S (1811-13) Hardy County, West Virginia, page 278 on the 29 Day of July 1814. Michael Crose 14 children came in for their share of their Grandfather Chritian Crose estate in Deed Book 11, Hardy County, West Vilrginia, page 495 and page 497. Henry Crose and his wife Jane came in for their one seventh share on 7 June 1825 recorded in Deed Book 11 (1828-31) Hardy County, Est Virginia, page 14. Elizabeth (Crose) Ross came in for her one seventh share in Deed Book 11 (1828-31) Hardy County, West Virginia, page 13."

Life Sketch Christian Crose can be found on the 1st cenus of 1782, List of Vincent Williams Gent, Hampshire Co, Va. show 11 members.

Christian disinherited Michael Crose his son because Michael married his sisters daughter (his niece), however Christian gave Michael's share to his children and grandchildren.

Solomon Crose (Christian's son) states that Christian and Barbara Crose were both born in Virginia.

The Crose Family pioneers started with Christian Crose as the partiarch of the family in Augusta county, VA. Then Frederick Co. Va. was formed from Orange and Augusta Counties in 1728-43. Hampshire Co. Va. was formed from Frederick Co. in 1754. Hardy Co.,Va. was formed from Hampshire Co. in 1785. The present Grant Co, WV was formed from Hardy Co. in 1866. Early records have Christian Crose in all of the above counties but yet he has lived on Patterson Creek near Williamsport, WV since the first record in 1757.

In year 1757, Christian Crose had in his household, his wife and three children, Elizabeth, Henry, and Philip. During the French and Indian Wars his family and his neighbors would travel over the mountains nine miles to Fort Pleasant now known as Fort Old Fields. The Shawnee Indians in 1754, the year Hampshire County was formed, were the indians who attacked the area between the Hardy County Area and the Monongalia River to the West.

In the spring of 1756, one of the marauding groups of indians, of about sixty of seventy warriors, said to be under the leadership of Shawnee Chief Killbuck, raided a home about 15 miles up the "South Fork of the river Wappatomake", killed and scalped one woman, a Mrs. John Brake, and took another, a Mrs. Neff, prisoner.

The log cabin that Christian Crose built and lived in was burned by the Confederates during the Civil War. Another log cabin was built and still referred to as the Croses Cabin. The second log cobin was torn down in 1973 and a mobile home rests on its foundation. The fresh water spring that was used by Christian Crose is still in use today.

Exerts from Christian Crose will Quote "Also my will is that my son Michael Crose shall have no part in his possession but that his children shall have his part of share which is to equal the share of each of the -- residue of my children." Michael Crose, it is assumed, married his niece Mary Ross against the wishes of his father Christian Crose.
Spouse:
Barbara STUMP
Birth1730, Virgina
DeathSep 1830, Grant Co., West Virginia Age: 100

Virginia Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850 Record
Name: Christian Crose
Date: Dec 10, 1757
Location: Augusta Co., VA
Notes: This probate record was originally published in "Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia, 1745-1800. Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County" by Lyman Chalkley.
Remarks: Christian Doscher's (Dosher, Dorcher) appraisement, by Michael Stump, Leonard Neave, Peter Horse. Due by Charles Wilson, Christian Crose. Due Wm. Darline, John Welton and Anthony Reager.
Description: Debtor
Book_Date: WB2-306


Will of Christian Crose (Source: Henry A. Harmann in e-mail dtd 26 May 2007. Henry was the one who located and Christian's will in the county records).

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN
I Christian Croose of Hardy County and State of Virginia being in a low state of health at present but in my perfect senses and memory and state of health at present but in my perfect senses and memory and considering the uncertainty of human life and that necessary for all persons so to despose of their affairs in their lifetime as may prevent and disents amongst relations after their death to perfect the same as much as may be in my own family. I think proper to give dismiss aand dispose of my estate in the following manner and form.
TO WIT; First of all I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Barbara Croose one horse and sadle one cow one bed and furniture of her own choosing as her own property.
Secondly the residue of my moveable effeccts to be sold by my Executors and my just debts together with my funeral expenses be paid.
Thirdly I will to my daughter Elisabeth twenty dollars also to my daughter Mary ten dollars as their part or full shares of my whole estate. Also my Will is that my son Michael Croose shall have no part in his possession but that his children shall have his part of share which is to equal the share of each of the ---residue of my children and further I also will that Adam Croose shall have my lands and maintain my wife Barbara Croose so long as she liveth and at her death I will my lands to be sold and the money to be divided equally between the residue of my children...Giving Michael Crooses children his part....
Also, I do hereby constitute and appoint Jacob Tevebough and Adam Croose my Executors to this my Last Will and do hereby revoke and disallow all other former testaments wills or bequests declareing this and no other to be my last will and testament--and in witness hereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal.
Ammo Domini--one thousand eight hundred and in the 3rd year of the commonwealth 9th September.
Signed SEaled and Acknowledged in the /s/ Christian Gross SEAL
presents of
/s/ James Machin
/s/ Geo Harness Junr
/s/ Adam Harness
At a court held for Hardy County the 8th day of February 1814. This Last Will and Testament of Christian Crose deced. was presented in Court by Jacob Tevebough and Adam Crose the Executors therein named and proved by the oaths of James Machin and Adam Harness two of the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. And on the motion of the said Executors certificate is granted them for obtaining and probate thereof in this form they having taken the oath of executors and together with James Miles their security entered into and acknowledged a bond in the penalty of three thousand dollars conditioned as the law directs.
Teste
/s/ Ed Williams ce

Henry A. Harmann supplied additional support regarding precisely who the children of Christian Crose were in email dtd 27 May 2007:
"Christian Crose mentions in his Last Will and Testament four children: He mentions dauhters Elizabeth and Mary. sons Michael and Adam. His son Solmon Crose and his wife Catherine came in for their one seventh share in Deed Book S (1811-13) Hardy County, West Virginia, page 278 on the 29 Day of July 1814. Michael Crose 14 children came in for their share of their Grandfather Chritian Crose estate in Deed Book 11, Hardy County, West Vilrginia, page 495 and page 497. Henry Crose and his wife Jane came in for their one seventh share on 7 June 1825 recorded in Deed Book 11 (1828-31) Hardy County, Est Virginia, page 14. Elizabeth (Crose) Ross came in for her one seventh share in Deed Book 11 (1828-31) Hardy County, West Virginia, page 13."

Christian married Christina Barbara STUMP in 1750 in Virginia, British Colonial America. Christina (daughter of Johann "Hans" Peter STUMPF and Rosina Barbara MAURER) was born on 25 Dec 1733 in Eberbach, Baden, Germany; died in Sep 1830 in Patterson Creek, Hardy, West Virginia; was buried in Patterson Creek, Hardy, West Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LCZF-HTM
• _UID: 9EAB1810F0794DB0A87D9513260B72ACF37B
• Baptism: 26 Dec 1733, Eberbach, Baden, Deutschland

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• FamilySearch ID: GQ59-CJT
• _UID: B6D59EBEFA75431CBA380E5C490DA13139B4

Stephen married Elizabeth CROSE in 1766 in Hampshire County, Virginia, (now Grant County, West Virginia). Elizabeth (daughter of Christian CROSE and Christina Barbara STUMP) was born on 20 Oct 1749 in Hampshire County, Virginia; died on 23 Apr 1814 in Springfield Township, Ross County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: GQ59-4DL
• _UID: 6CD56A1A19A548A1B01E078766A08A48A008

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• Alt. Birth: Anson, North Carolina
• FamilySearch ID: GQ8Z-PZ7
• _UID: CA3C18EBB08048EEA4F466263561706D0683
• Residence: 1810, Madison, Madison, Kentucky

Nicholas married Mary "Molly" Ann POLLEY in 1770 in South Carolina. Mary (daughter of Joseph POLLEY and Dorcas COLBURN) was born on 21 Jan 1752 in Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts; died on 27 Dec 1820 in Lincoln, Kentucky; was buried in 1821 in Fitchburg, Worcester, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: GJB8-WVF
• _UID: 30FB873A76154368A8FAA655946AAA9F06E2

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• FamilySearch ID: LRYD-29T
• _UID: 1736FE3D4F5E48DDA5828547951EFA3630F9

Notes:

Can't be proven for his father/mother...

Nathan married Hannah LOGSDON in 1763 in North Carolina, British Colonial America. Hannah (daughter of Edward LOGSDON and Sarah MCQUEEN) was born in 1748 in Frederick, Frederick, Colony of Maryland, British Colonial America; died on 18 Oct 1818 in Wellsburg, Ashland, Chemung, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: LHNB-C1N
• Name: Hannah LOGSDEN
• _UID: 8537CBF503154088934A28F5954CA93F1F87