Dooly County GaArchives Biographies.....Myrtice Robertson July 17 1904 - February 10 1988
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Myrtice Robertson (parents Rufus Erastus Robertson and Sarah Elizabeth (Sallie) 
Harp) was born July 17, 1904 in Unadilla, GA (Dooly County). She died February 
10, 1988 in Ocean Springs, MS.  
  
Myrtice was the third daughter of five girls and one boy born of Sarah 
Elizabeth (Sally) Harpe and Rufus Robertson. 

When she was a young girl just out of high school, she met Ernest Cross at 
church.  They courted and married.  

Myrtice was a loving, hard-working mother who was a marvel at keeping the 
household of four children and husband running smoothly.  She insisted that 
each child get a solid education and often sacrificed herself to ensure that 
they had every opportunity.

During the early 1920's she traveled to Miami, Florida via the Old National 
Highway. She traveled with her mother and father in an automobile over dirt 
paths from Georgia to Miami. They passed through the Indian River area of 
Florida and enjoyed the fresh citrus fruit and exotic birds.  She remember 
vividly the devastation done by the hurricane of 1928 when she and her parents 
went to bring her sister, Lessie home.
   
During World War II, her oldest son, Robert Harold, volunteered for service in 
the Navy.  She was saddened that he chose to go, but as was her custom, and 
knowing that he knew what he was doing, she gave him her complete love and 
support.  To do her part, she got a job at the Wellston Air Depot production 
facility (later Warner Robins Air Force Base) and worked there for the 
remainder of the war.  After the war she returned to the home.  Then after a 
few years when the children were all grown up, she returned to the facility 
where she worked until she suffered a severe stroke.  Her recovery was long but 
eventually complete.

In 1948, Myrtice, along with one of the teachers, Miss Fox, chaperoned the 
senior class of Pinehurst High School to New Orleans, LA.  It was her son's 
Ernest, senior class.  

Myrtice would frequently travelled to the different states that her children 
and grandchildren lived at to visit them. 

Myrtice Robertson Cross was an avid gardener and frequently worked the family 
farm. She was known for her amazing success with plants and her vegetable 
garden. She would place one seed in each hole and somehow managed to achieve 
one plant for each seed.  

Myrtice was a strong, Christian woman.  She was deeply religious and had strong 
moral values.  She had an open mind, sympathetic ear, and comforting presence.  
And what a marvelous cook she was! It seemed Myrtice knew how to cook 
everything.  All members of the extended family always wanted to come to their 
house for one of her Sunday meals.

Myrtice and Ernest moved to Ocean Springs, Mississippi and enjoyed their later 
years with their daughter, Sadie.  

Nearly four years after her husband, Ernest’s death, she became terminally ill 
with pancreatic cancer and passed away in the hospital in Ocean Springs, 
Mississippi.  Her two sons and her daughter, Sadie, were with her at her 
death.  She was buried with her husband, next to the gravesite of her sister, 
Agnes and her husband, Clinton Heath, at Harmony Church Cemetery, Dooly County.
  
Myrtice Robertson and Ernest Franklin Cross had the following children:
 
  1. Robert Harold Cross was born February 25, 1927 in Dooly County Georgia.    

  2. Sadie Elizabeth Cross was born March 16, 1925 in GA.    

  3. Joyce Marcel Cross was born October 3, 1928 in Dooly County Georgia. She 
died November 3, 2000 in Dooly County Georgia.    

  4. Ernest Edward Cross was born July 15, 1931 in Vienna, GA.    

  5. Ernest Franklin Cross, Jr. died in Dooly County, GA.  Ernest Franklin was 
the first born child of Ernest and Myrtice Cross.  He died at birth.  He is 
buried at Mars Hills Baptist Church Cemetery.   

 



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