[NOTE: Not to be confused with the Rev. Abijah Cross, his 1st Cousin and a Congregational Church minister in Salisbury, NH that lived from 1793 to 1856]
The obituary for Abijah Cross was so remarkable that I had to post it in it's entirety. Since the article is so old from 1837 and there are no known photos of him, it merited posting. The story is so unusual, I wanted everyone to see it was from a publication from New Hampshire, not a religious publication. The obit says he died of "lung fever" [aka Consumption or Tuberculosis, a deadly and very contagious disease that he probably caught nursing his father that died just a few weeks before him]. His son (my 3rdggfather) Ferrin Abijah Cross was killed fighting as a young Corporal for the North in the Civil War as a very young man, leaving a widow and 4 small children. All of those children except one of his daughters, Caroline Lamira Cross (my 2ndggmother) experienced some tragedy. She and Henry Ward Sessions had two daughters that lived to adulthood and married. Only one of those daughters had children that married, but only one child had a child, a son, that had blood offspring. The one son had two children that are still alive today, and they have blood children as well...obituary for his father, Simeon is directly above this article in the same issue....
This Abijah Cross according to the Obit "he professed faith in Christ 22 years since [1815] and lived in the enjoyment of the same, he joined no society of people, saying he saw none walking in the faith of Christ as he had left it on record..."
The obituary for Abijah Cross was so remarkable that I had to post it in it's entirety. Since the article is so old from 1837 and there are no known photos of him, it merited posting. The story is so unusual, I wanted everyone to see it was from a publication from New Hampshire, not a religious publication. The obit says he died of "lung fever" [aka Consumption or Tuberculosis, a deadly and very contagious disease that he probably caught nursing his father that died just a few weeks before him]. His son (my 3rdggfather) Ferrin Abijah Cross was killed fighting as a young Corporal for the North in the Civil War as a very young man, leaving a widow and 4 small children. All of those children except one of his daughters, Caroline Lamira Cross (my 2ndggmother) experienced some tragedy. She and Henry Ward Sessions had two daughters that lived to adulthood and married. Only one of those daughters had children that married, but only one child had a child, a son, that had blood offspring. The one son had two children that are still alive today, and they have blood children as well...obituary for his father, Simeon is directly above this article in the same issue....
This Abijah Cross according to the Obit "he professed faith in Christ 22 years since [1815] and lived in the enjoyment of the same, he joined no society of people, saying he saw none walking in the faith of Christ as he had left it on record..."
[NOTE: Not to be confused with the Rev. Abijah Cross, his 1st Cousin and a Congregational Church minister in Salisbury, NH that lived from 1793 to 1856]
The obituary for Abijah Cross was so remarkable that I had to post it in it's entirety. Since the article is so old from 1837 and there are no known photos of him, it merited posting. The story is so unusual, I wanted everyone to see it was from a publication from New Hampshire, not a religious publication. The obit says he died of "lung fever" [aka Consumption or Tuberculosis, a deadly and very contagious disease that he probably caught nursing his father that died just a few weeks before him]. His son (my 3rdggfather) Ferrin Abijah Cross was killed fighting as a young Corporal for the North in the Civil War as a very young man, leaving a widow and 4 small children. All of those children except one of his daughters, Caroline Lamira Cross (my 2ndggmother) experienced some tragedy. She and Henry Ward Sessions had two daughters that lived to adulthood and married. Only one of those daughters had children that married, but only one child had a child, a son, that had blood offspring. The one son had two children that are still alive today, and they have blood children as well...obituary for his father, Simeon is directly above this article in the same issue....
This Abijah Cross according to the Obit "he professed faith in Christ 22 years since [1815] and lived in the enjoyment of the same, he joined no society of people, saying he saw none walking in the faith of Christ as he had left it on record..."
The obituary for Abijah Cross was so remarkable that I had to post it in it's entirety. Since the article is so old from 1837 and there are no known photos of him, it merited posting. The story is so unusual, I wanted everyone to see it was from a publication from New Hampshire, not a religious publication. The obit says he died of "lung fever" [aka Consumption or Tuberculosis, a deadly and very contagious disease that he probably caught nursing his father that died just a few weeks before him]. His son (my 3rdggfather) Ferrin Abijah Cross was killed fighting as a young Corporal for the North in the Civil War as a very young man, leaving a widow and 4 small children. All of those children except one of his daughters, Caroline Lamira Cross (my 2ndggmother) experienced some tragedy. She and Henry Ward Sessions had two daughters that lived to adulthood and married. Only one of those daughters had children that married, but only one child had a child, a son, that had blood offspring. The one son had two children that are still alive today, and they have blood children as well...obituary for his father, Simeon is directly above this article in the same issue....
This Abijah Cross according to the Obit "he professed faith in Christ 22 years since [1815] and lived in the enjoyment of the same, he joined no society of people, saying he saw none walking in the faith of Christ as he had left it on record..."
Inscription
SIMEON CROSS
Born in Methuen, Mass.
DIED
Feb. 22, 1837 AE. 93.
ABIGAIL.
His Wife, Died
Mar. 9, 1834. AE. 87.
ABIJAH.
Their Son, Died
Apr. 6, 1837. AE. 47.
SARAH.
His Wife, Died
Feb. 15, 1872 AE. 81.
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