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TABLE OF CONTENTS CROSBY ................................................................................................................................................. 2 ANCESTOR TREE OF MARY CROSBY ...................................................................................................... 4 CENSUS RECORDS................................................................................................................................. 5 1800 Maine Census (Crosby) ........................................................................................................... 5 1820 Somerset Co, ME (Crosby) ...................................................................................................... 5 1830 Penobscot Co, ME (Crosby) .................................................................................................... 5 1840 Maine (Crosby) ....................................................................................................................... 5 1850 Piketon, Pike Co, OH (Crosby, Gordun) .................................................................................. 6 1850 Plymouth, Penobscot Co, ME (Crosby).................................................................................... 6 1860 Plymouth, Penobscot Co, ME (Crosby).................................................................................... 6 1860 Cedar Falls TWP, Black Hawk Co, IA (Crosby)....................................................................... 6 1860 West Union, Fayette Co, IA (Crosby)....................................................................................... 6 1870 Plymouth, Penobscot Co, ME (Crosby).................................................................................... 7 1870 Fayette County, IA (Crosby, Thompson) .................................................................................. 7 1880 Plymouth, Penobscot Co, ME (Crosby).................................................................................... 8 1880 Salt Creek TWP, Lincoln Co., KS (Crosby) .............................................................................. 8 1880 Concord TWP, Ottawa Co, KS (Crosby) .................................................................................. 8 1900 Minneapolis, Ottawa Co, KS (Crosby, Jackson, Smith) ............................................................ 9 1900 Scott, Lincoln Co, KS (Crosby) ................................................................................................ 9 1905 Minneapolis, Ottawa Co, KS (Crosby) ..................................................................................... 9 BIOGRAPHIES ..................................................................................................................................... 10 Ezra Crosby .................................................................................................................................. 10 Glocus P. Crosby........................................................................................................................... 10 MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS ................................................................................................................. 12 38th Iowa Infantry Service Record ................................................................................................. 12 OBITUARIES ....................................................................................................................................... 13 Cummings Crosby (1796-1889) ..................................................................................................... 13 Ezra Crosby (1820-1898) .............................................................................................................. 13 Glockus Parker Crosby (1843-1924) .............................................................................................. 14 Mary Thompson Crosby (1847-1925) ............................................................................................. 14 Iona Crosby Davis Staley (1868-1941) ........................................................................................... 14 CEMETERY RECORDS .......................................................................................................................... 15 Minneapolis Highland Cemetery .................................................................................................... 15 DESCENDANTS OF JOHN CROSBY .................................................................................................... 17 CROSBY The earliest Crosby record I have is of John Crosby, born about 1440 in Yorkshire, England (Styllyngfleyte). The majority of my early Crosby information comes from internet sources and the Latter Day Saints ancestral files. My ancestry follows from John to Miles, Thomas, Anthony, and then to the first Crosby to settle in Massachusetts, my 12th great-grandfather, Thomas. Thomas Crosby was born about 1575 in Holme-on- Spalding-Moor, County York, England. Thomas married Jane Sothern in 1600 - they were the parents of my 11th great-grandfather, Simon Crosby. Simon Crosby is a common grandfather of Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby and myself - a relationship that makes us 8th cousin's (4 times removed). Simon's oldest son, the Reverend Thomas Crosby (1634 - 1661), is the line that follows down to "Bing" through son, Simon, and five generations of Nathaniel's. Reverend Thomas Crosby is reported to be the last Crosby of our ancestry to be born in England. The second son of Simon was Simon Crosby, Jr., my 10th great-grandfather. Simon Crosby, Jr. was born in Middlesex County, Massachusetts (Cambridge) on 6 August 1637. If birth locations are accurate then this would make the Crosby immigration to the United States approximately 1635. My Crosby line remained in Massachusetts for nearly 100 years, from Simon Jr. through Joseph, Robert, and Jonah Crosby. The first record of my Crosbys' outside Massachusetts is evidenced in their presence in 1800 Kennebec County, ME and the reported birth of Ezra Crosby (6th great-grandfather) in Winslow, Maine. Ezra Crosby married Teresa Sherwin of Dunstable County, Maine and were the parents of Cummings Crosby, my fifth great-grandfather. In 1814, Ezra Crosby died and I found Cummings Crosby and family in 1820 Somerset County, Maine, and again in 1830/1850 Penobscot County, living near his cousin, Manson. According to the 1850 census, Teresa Sherwin Crosby apparently remarried to a gentleman named Whitman. I believe Cummings wife, Dorcas, died some time before 1874 because I found a record of a Cummings Crosby marriage to Julia A. Hillman on 28 Dec 1874 in Penobscot Co, ME (Civil) - there has never been any record of another Cummings Crosby. After 1870, I could not find Cummings Crosby - until his 1889 death in Ottawa County, Kansas. I do not know what route, or with who, Cummings traveled to end up in Kansas. His son, Ezra, moved away from Maine prior to 1850 - I located him in Pike County, Ohio. The first child of Glockus and Mary Thompson Crosby, Iona (born Aug 1868), was my great-great-grandmother. In 1873, the Crosby family moved on to Kansas. A biography of Ezra Crosby, extracted from a history accounting of Ottawa County, KS from a book titled, "History of Kansas", provides more information. Ezra Crosby married Elizabeth Mallichs, of Scotish parents, in 1842 Pike County. Their oldest son and my third great-grandfather, Glockus Parker Crosby, was born in 1843 Pike County, Ohio. The next location I have on the Ezra Crosby family was in West Union TWP, Fayette County, Iowa. In August 1866, Glockus married Mary Ann Thompson, daughter of William and Mary Learns Thompson, in Fayette County, IA. Looking through the 1860 and 1870 census reports for Thompson families, I recorded many that could possibly be related - including a probable Learns uncle. I was able to verify much of the Crosby data I have from the Ottawa County death records of Glockus and Mary Thompson Crosby, and the marriage records of Loren E. Crosby and the children of Glockus and Mary. Glockus and Mary Crosby remained in Ottawa County until their deaths. The 1924 death notice on Glockus contained interesting information on his Iowa background and his exploits during the Civil War. Mary Thompson Crosby died the following year. In 1886 Ottawa County, KS, Iona Crosby married Joseph Edmund Davis. Joseph was the son of John and Elizabeth Stewart Davis. Joseph and Iona remained in Ottawa County until their deaths and are buried at Highland Cemetery, in Minneapolis. Iona remarried to Andrew Staley a few years after Joseph's death. Joseph and Iona Crosby Davis were the parents of my great-grandfather, Elzy Ray Davis. Ancestor Tree of Mary Crosby EZRA CROSBY b: in WINSLOW, ME CUMMINGS CROSBY d: 7 Apr 1814 b: 19 Feb 1799 in MAINE m: Abt. 1815 in MAINE d: 19 Jan 1889 in OTTAWA CO, KS TERESA SHERWIN b: 24 Jun 1768 in DUNSTABLE CO, MA d: 1850 in HARTLAND, ME EZRA CROSBY b: 7 Nov 1820 in PENOBSCOT CO, ME (Plymouth) m: 3 Jul 1842 in PIKE CO, OH (Waverly) d: 2 Apr 1898 in OTTAWA CO, KS DORCAS CROSBY* b: 1797 in MAINE d: Aft. 1870 in res. PENOBSCOT CO, ME (Plymout GLOCKUS PARKER CROSBY b: 6 Oct 1843 in PIKE CO, OH (Piketon) m: 22 Aug 1866 in FAYETTE CO, IA d: 11 Feb 1924 in OTTAWA CO, KS FATHER OF ELIZABETH MATTOX b: in SCOTLAND ELIZABETH (Mallichs) MADDOX b: 22 Dec 1821 in HIGHLAND CO, OH d: 27 Aug 1890 in OTTAWA CO, KS MOTHER OF ELIZABETH MATTOX b: in SCOTLAND IONA CROSBY b: 4 Aug 1868 in FAYETTE CO, IA (West Union) m: 7 Dec 1886 in OTTAWA CO,