Alford Fleming Cross (1801 - abt. 1882)

Born 19 Jan 1801 in Madison, Kentucky, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Boyd) Cross — married 1824 in Smith, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died about 1882 at about age 80 in Creek, Dade, Georgia, United States

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Biography

Alford Cross was born in Appalachia, in Kentucky.

This profile is part of the Cross Name Study.

Alford, the third son of Joel and Susannah Cross, was born on Thursday, January 15 or Monday, January 19, 1801 in Madison County, Kentucky. Alford married Mary Boyd in 1824 in Marion County, Tennessee. Out of this union came eight children all born in Marion or Hamilton County, Tennessee: Mary Elizabeth, Joel, Lucinda, William D., Zachariah Jackson, Martin Van Buren, James Alford, and Thomas Hart Benton. The Alford Cross family continued to live in Marion County, Tennessee in 1830.(Located in the southeastern part of the state that borders on both Georgia and Alabama.) However, by 1840 the Alford Cross family had moved one county over to the east into Hamilton County, Tennessee. By 1860 the Alford Cross family moved to a different state. They moved southwest to Dade County, Georgia. (It is located in the northwest corner of Georgia and it borders both Alabama and Tennessee.)

We get a brief personal description of Alford Cross from his grandson, Joseph Franklin (J.F.) Cross. "My grandfather was about 5 feet 10 inches tall and when he was older he wore a woolen shawl around his shoulders." He goes on to say, "Cross Hollow, Dade County, Georgia, was named for him. It is about 12 miles from Chattanooga, Tennessee and between Morganville and Wildwood, Georgia." Furthermore, J.F. Cross remembered as a boy it was his job to shell corn for the sheep every evening while he lived with his grandfather after his grandmother had died. There was this big outcropping of rock in the pen that he threw the corn on for the sheep, and near the big flat rock was a tree stump about three feet high. He would tease and aggravate the big ram and he would fight back. When the ram started for him, he’d jump behind the stump and wave his hat at the ram and then place it on top of the stump and the ram would nearly butt his brains out as hit the stump head on. Now his grandfather never saw him teasing the animals and one day while his grandfather was in the pen he bent over to pick up a sack of feed and he had his hat on when the old ram caught his eye and he charged him and butted his grandfather clear through the barn! He quotes Alford as saying, “Truth and honesty will carry a man to heaven.” He also describes the house that Alford lived in while in Georgia. “It had a porch across the front with a railing. There were two rooms on either side of a dog-trot hall. The kitchen was out the back. And there was an Indian mound on the place.” Alford died in 1882 in Dade County, Georgia and was buried at Cross/Townsend Cemetery, Dade County, Georgia.

Census

Name: Alfred Cross Event Type: Census Event Date: 1850 Event Place: Hamilton county, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States Gender: Male Age: 48 Marital Status: Race (Original): Race: Birthplace: Kentucky Birth Year (Estimated): 1802 House Number: 1457 Family Number: 1457 Line Number: 22 Affiliate Publication Number: M432 Affiliate Film Number: 881 GS Film number: 444837 Digital Folder Number: 004206039 Image Number: 00276 Household Gender Age Birthplace Alfred Cross M 48 Kentucky Mary Cross F 43 Tennessee Laucinda Cross F 21 Tennessee William Cross M 17 Tennessee Zachariah Cross M 15 Tennessee Marlen Cross M 13 Tennessee James Cross M 11 Tennessee Thomas Cross M 7 Tennessee 1850 United States Census

Name: Alfred Cross Event Type: Census Event Year: 1860 Event Place: 974th Dist G. M., Dade, Georgia, United States Gender: Male Age: 58 Race: White Race (Original): Birth Year (Estimated): 1802 Birthplace: Kentucky Page: 46 Household ID: 305 Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Affiliate Publication Number: M653 GS Film Number: 803118 Digital Folder Number: 004212549 Image Number: 00456 Household Gender Age Birthplace Alfred Cross M 58 Kentucky Mary Cross F 54 Tennessee James A Cross M 20 Tennessee Thomas H B Cross M 17 Tennessee 1860 United States Census

Name: Alford Cross Event Type: Census Event Year: 1870 Event Place: District 974, Dade, Georgia, United States Gender: Male Age: 68 Race: White Race (Original): W Occupation: Farmer Birth Year (Estimated): 1801-1802 Birthplace: Kentucky Page Number: 23 Household ID: 166 Line Number: 1 Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Affiliate Publication Number: M593 GS Film number: 000545645 Digital Folder Number: 004263442 Image Number: 00243 Household Gender Age Birthplace Alford Cross M 68 Kentucky Mary Cross F 53 Tennessee Thomas H B Cross M 24 Tennessee 1870 United States Census

Name: Alfred Cross Event Type: Census Event Date: 1880 Event Place: Creek, Dade, Georgia, United States Gender: Male Age: 77 Marital Status: Widowed Occupation: Farmer Race (Original): W Ethnicity: American Relationship to Head of Household: Self Birthplace: Kentucky, United States Birth Date: 1803 Spouse's Name: Spouse's Birthplace: Father's Name: Father's Birthplace: North Carolina, United States Mother's Name: Mother's Birthplace: North Carolina, United States Page: 40 Page Letter: A Entry Number: 3674 Affiliate Film Number: T9-0142 GS Film number: 1254142 Digital Folder Number: 004240135 Image Number: 00658 Household Gender Age Birthplace

Sources

• "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHPM-DPC : 20 February 2021), Alfred Cross, Marion, Tennessee, United States; citing 68, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 175; FHL microfilm 24,533.
• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCDF-Z7W : 23 December 2020), Alfred Cross, Red Bank, Hamilton, Tennessee, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZM2-75B : 18 February 2021), Alfred Cross, 1860.
• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCST-PJ7 : 28 May 2021), Alford Cross, 1870.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8LL-HPN : 18 November 2021), Alfred Cross, District 974, Dade, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60565349/alford-fleming-cross : accessed 22 November 2021), memorial page for Alford Fleming Cross (19 Jan 1801–1882), Find A Grave: Memorial #60565349, citing Townsend Cemetery, Wildwood, Dade County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Marlan Shelton (contributor 47371115) .