James Crosslin, Saline County, Missouri (YEAR OF 1876) TAKEN FROM SALINE COUNTY, MOATLAS ***************************************************************** ****************************************************************** File contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Janet Crosslin Seamon ****************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. Unauthorized use for commercial ventures expressly prohibited. All information submitted to this project remains - to the extent the law allows - the property of the submitter who, by submitting it, agrees that it may be freely copied but NEVER sold or used in a commercial venture without the knowledge & permission of its rightful owner. The USGenWeb Project makes no claims or estimates of the validity of the information submitted and reminds you that each new piece of information must be researched and proved or disproved by weight of evidence. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ****************************************************************** ****************************************************************** James Crosslin born in Cake County (Cocke), Tennessee, January 2, 1800. Mr. Crosslin’s father died when he was quite young. And he was bound out to a gentlemen, a Mr. John Frim, with whom he lived till his marriage. Which occurred in his nineteenth year to Miss Sara Baldridge. In 1821, with his young family, he directed his course to Missouri. And arrived in this county in the winter of the same year. He had on his arrival here, his wagon & team & one dollar in money, and rather than spend his “Bottom Dollar” he ferried across the Missouri River on credit. He made a location in the Missouri River Bottom on a vacant tract. Within some two miles of Glasgow. Built him a cabin, and went to work in the Treese still a frontiersman. The high waters of 1824 and 1825 drove him from his home to the bluffs. And though expecting to do so he never returned to his improvements. But entered a tract of a land in what has since been known as the Bunker Hill settlement to which he removed, and where he continued to extend his possessions till he owned about a section of land. He was not only a prosperous, but one of the neatest farmers of his part of the country. Such was the confidence of the people in his integrity and intellectual ability, that he was chosen Justice of the Peace in his Precinct year after year, until he would accept the position no longer. He was endowed with a high sense of honor. He was peaceable and benevolent, but not withstanding would not permit his personal rights to be trampled upon. He was intensely Democrat and true to the institutions of the South. He made a profession of religion. But such was his veneration of the Church which he thought ought to be the very incarnation of nobleness and purity, that he never joined it fearing that he might at some unguarded moment bring reproach upon its sacred charter. He continued to maintain his hope to the end. And contributed as liberally toward the wants of Fish Creek Church as if he were one of its members. And which constituted at his residence, and which he furnished with a place of worship till it built an edifice of its own. Mr. Crosslin died in April 3rd, 1851, and his wife June 19th, 1852, and their remains lie interred in cemetery at the Fish Creek Baptist Church; of which his wife was a member. They raised six children and lost two in infancy. Two sons Meredith and William are well known and prosperous farmers of Clay County Township. Calvin is a farmer of Dade County, where Jhon (John) another brother died. James M. went to California in 1850, died there January 17, 1851, and Mary the sister married Ephriam McDaniel, a Baptist minister, and went with her husband to Texas where she died in 1872.