BIO:  CROSS, Gibson, s/o Joseph and Epsy D. (Kinman) Cross

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

CROSS   KINMAN   ANDERSON 

History of Pike and Dubois Counties, Indiana, Goodspeed Bros. & Co., 
Publishers,   1885,   Chicago

Pike County, Patoka Twp, p. 418

GIBSON CROSS was born October 15, 1841, in Pike County, Ind., and is a son
of Joseph and Epsy D. (Kinman) Cross, natives of Kentucky and Indiana,
respectively.  Mr. Cross came to this county in 1829, where he was married.
He followed the life of a farmer and in connection with that acted as justice
of the peace for two years prior to his death, which occurred in 1884, the
mother having passed away in 1849.  Gibson, the subject of this sketch, when
twenty years old, volunteered his services for his country, and enlisted in
Company G, Fifty-eighth Indiana Infantry, and was in many of the principal
battles of the war.  He was a brave soldier and served his country faith-
fully for three years.  January 10, 1867, he married Priscilla Anderson,
who died ten months after her marriage.  October 15, 1868 he took for the
second wife, Betsy A. Kinman, born December 20, 1850, and daughter of 
Burrell and Nancy Kinman.  Mr. and Mrs. Cross became the parents of four
children:  Oliver, Rufus A., Gibson T. and Lillie B.  Both parents are
members of the Baptist Church, and Mr. Cross is a leading Republican, having
cast his first vote for Lincoln.  He owns a fine farm of 140 acres and is a
well to do citizen. 
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