Biographies and Obituaries
In loving memory
Clarington G. Cross
History Daviess Counties
Goodspeed Publishing Company 1886
CLARINGTON G. CROSS, farmer, was born in Fleming County, Ky., April 30, 1823, son of John and Mary (Johnson) Cross, and is of German descent, the fifth in a family of eleven children. His father was born in Tennessee and his mother in Virginia. In 1826 the family came to Daviess County, Ind. The father died in Pike County, Ind., at about thirty years of age, The mother died in Daviess County. Subject was reared on a farm and attended the subscription schools. When about eighteen years of age he began working for himself by the month; this he continued until twenty-seven years old, when he began farming for himself. He settled on his present farm in 1852, and now owns 250 acres of well-improved land. He was married, in 1849, to Miss Eliza E. Small, a native of Kentucky. To their marriage three children were born, two of whom are yet living, viz.: Frank, born in November, 1850, and Theodore, born in September, 1855. Mrs. Cross died in 1881. Mr. Cross is a Republican and is a charter member of the I. O.O.F. Lodge of Glendale. He is a successful farmer and is one of the prominent men of the county.
Contributed by: Michael L. Tedrow