Washoe County NV Archives Obituaries.....Cross, I. D. February 2, 1883
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Reno Evening Gazette February 10, 1883
Death of an Old Renoite
I. D. Cross, an old and respected resident of Reno, died at Bellevue, Wood
River, February 2nd.  Mr. Cross was, the father of Mrs. J. W. Maddrill, Mrs.
George W. Hark and Mrs. C. H. Stoddard of Reno and Mrs. Charles Davis of
Oakland.  Mr. Cross spent several of his best years in Dayton, keeping a hotel.
 He tried to dig a fortune from the hills of Como, but after exhausting a large
sum of money and much time he abandoned the task and came to Reno, where he was
employed by W. R. Chamberlain, leaving here for the Wood River country, where he
closed his labor to enter eternity.  Mr. Cross was a native of New York, and was
59 years of age.


Daily Nevada State Journal
February 10, 1883
In Memoriam
Ira D. Cross died in Bellevue last Friday.  He was a native of Oswego county,
New York, aged 59 years.  Mr. Cross came to the Pacific Coast in 1852, and
resided in Petaluma, Cal., most of time till 1863, when he moved to Nevada, and
resided in Dayton, Como, Reno, and other towns in this State, till he went to
Bellevue some two years ago, where he has since resided up to the time of his
death.  Mr. Cross was a pioneer member of the fraternity of Free and Accepted
Masons on the Pacific Coast, having connected himself with that Order nearly
thirty years ago, twenty-seven years of which time he has been an active member
of Petaluma Lodge, under the jurisdiction of California.  More than once he has
amassed a competence, only to see it swept away by fire, but with an
unconquerable will he has pressed forward in the struggle of life, never failing
in his duty to mankind, and never permitting the pressure of business to keep
him from relieving the wants of his fellows.  Charitable and just in all things,
having rounded his life to the fullness of man’s allotted time, he has at last
“gathered the drapery of his couch about him and laid him down in peaceful
slumber.”
The funeral took place last Sunday afternoon, at 1 o’clock, from the M. E.
Church, Bellevue, under the auspices of St. John’s Lodge, No. 15, A. F. and A. M.


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