Mrs. Cross, an estimable woman, wife, of Chas. Cross, Sr., was stricken with heart trouble from which there was no hopes of recovery and she passed peacefully away one week ago Friday. Rev. Esplin conducted the funeral services the following Sabbath at the residence. A large number of old neighbors and friends of the family were present to pay the last respects to the departed and mourn with the family in their great loss. Father Cross is well advanced in years and has but two children to comfort him during his life, Chas. Cross, Jr. who resides in Blair, and Mrs. Poucher, a daughter in Indiana. We understand he intends going soon to see his daughter. He will be greatly missed by the Sabbath school and church and we hope he may find comfort in his visit; also that he will return to his friends here at no very distant time.

#2-9 Apr., 1891 - The pilot - Wealthy Cross

CROSS - At the family residence in Herman, Neb., on Friday April 3rd, 1891 of heart failure, Wealthy, wife of Rev. Charles Cross, aged 73 years.

A most estimable woman, respected, honored and beloved by a large circle of friends and acquaintances has passed away at a ripe old age. Her death, though sudden, was not for some time past wholly unexpected. From an attack of la grippe of a year ago, she never fully recovered, and has since been subject to dangerous spells of heart trouble.

Mrs. Cross was born in Richland, New York in 1818, and in 1842, in the vicinity of her birth, was married to the venerable life partner whose honored gray hairs are bowed down with a heavy weight of grief as the lone survivor of almost fifty years of wedded life. For a time they lived in Wisconsin, coming to Nebraska and locating on the old homestead at Herman in 1871, since which there was been her home. She was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal church of many years standing, and always a most efficient aid to her husband in his ministerial labors.

She was the mother of four children, two only of whom survive her, Chas. Cross, Jr., of Blair and Mrs. Dr. Poucher, whose husband is a member of the faculty in De Paw University, Greencastle, Ind.

The funeral was held at the family residence in Herman on Sunday, appropriate services being conducted by Rev. Esplin, pastor of the M. E. church, and a large concourse of friends and neighbors paid the final tribute of honor and respect to the remains of a noble woman.

~~~Obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair, Nebraska Public Library~~~

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