Their children probably included:
Thomas Jones Cross (1812, married Martha Jane Wright),
William King Cross (1814, married Loozenia Gross),
Elizabeth Cross ((1819, married Obediah Wright),
David H. Cross (1826, married Julia A. Hart), John F. Cross (1832, married Adeline Shoun),
Jacob Cross,
Elijah Cross,
Rebecca Cross (married William Barnes),
Kate Cross (John Roller)
After the death of his first wife, Elijah Cross married Mary (Polly) Malone.
Their children probaby included:
James Cross, Samuel Looney Cross (1849, married Sarah Catherine Webb),
Andrew Cross, and
Franklin P. Cross (1853)
After Elijah died in 1855, Polly married a man named Hicks and they had one son, named Henry Hicks. He was of low stature and some of the boys called him, "Duck Legs."
East Tennessee is part of Appalachia. At the end of the French and Indian War, colonists began drifting into the area. In 1769, they first settled along the Watauga River. During the Revolution, the Overmountain Men defeated British loyalists at the Battle of Kings Mountain. The State of Franklin was formed in the 1780s, but never admitted to the Union.
