MRS. CHAS. CROSS PASSES AWAY

Following an illness covering a period of about four months and which illness was at the end of a period of failing health covering four years, Mrs. Chas. Cross passed away at the family home south of town Tuesday about noon surrounded by immediate members of the family and a few intimate friends. Death was due to heart complications and pneumonia. The funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon at the home, conducted by Rev. Mercer of the Methodist Church of which Mrs. Cross had been an ardent and active worker for forty years she have joined the local church in 1876.

Clara L. Cross, daughter of Thos. and Anna Hungate, was born at Cumming City, Nebr., Feb. 2, 1859 and died at her home south of town January 4, 1916 at the age of 56 years, 11 months, and 2 days. At the age of 8 years, Clara Hungate moved with her parents onto the Ruwe farm and which is now occupied by F. W. Lowe, and here she grew to womanhood, and here in 1875 she united in marriage with Chas. Cross and went with him to the home from which she passed so quietly Tuesday never more to return. The union was blessed with ten children, five of whom, Oscar J., of Craig, Paul T., of Hillsdale, Martha M. Lang, and Chas. H., of Roy, Mont., and Otho at home, are living and with their aged father mourn their loss. –Herman Record

# 2 - - published in the Enterprise January 7, 1916

Mrs. Chas. Cross died at the family home just this side of Herman on Tuesday after a lingering illness. She was a daughter of the late Thomas C. Hungate and was born on the old Hungate farm north of Blair, now owned by the Jensen families. Fifty-seven years ago and is survived by her husband and four grown children. She was a member of the Methodist Church for many years. The funeral was from the home on Wednesday, Rev. Poucher, a nephew of deceased, of Omaha, and Rev. Mercer of Herman, conducting the service.