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George Washington CROSE

George Washington CROSE[1]

Male 1824 - 1864  (40 years)

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  • Name George Washington CROSE 
    Born 1824  Madison, Boone County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    FamilySearch ID 2762-HZY 
    _UID A95C879C6F0E48FA80FAAB0D60BB427AF072 
    Died 1 Nov 1864  Camp Groce, Hempstead, Waller County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I29544  Carney Wehofer Feb 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 15 Dec 2022 

    Father Samuel CROSE, Sr.,   b. 4 Dec 1803, Bourbon, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1837, Frankford, Pike County, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 33 years) 
    Mother Priscilla WHITE,   b. 9 Mar 1805, Nicholas, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1880, Missouri Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years) 
    Married 29 Mar 1822  Nicholas, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F13970  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Children 
     1. Samuel CROSE
     2. Priscilla CROSE
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F14033  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • 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.


  • Sources 
    1. [SAuth] Jim Carney, compiled by James H Carney [(E-ADDRESS), & MAILING ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Buderim, Queensland 4556 AUSTRALIA.