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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Ellen Ruth CROSSETT: Birth: 16 MAR 1839 in Orangeville, Wyoming, New York.

  2. Martial Edson CROSSETT: Birth: 12 APR 1844 in Warsaw, Genesee, New York. Death: 31 OCT 1931

  3. Elza Augustus CROSSETT: Birth: 25 APR 1855 in DeKalb County, Illinois. Death: 17 JUN 1926 in Iowa City, Johnson, Iowa


Sources
1. Title:   1880 U.S. Federal Census
2. Title:   Crossett Genealogy Website
Author:   Crossett, Gene
Publication:   Gene Crossett
3. Title:   Cemetery Records
Text:   Cemetery records consist of tombstone, internet obituary, and cemetery office records. Records include those on Find a Grave. com.
4. Title:   Obituary
Page:   [Q:3]
Author:   Sycamore True Republican Newspaper
Publication:   12/18/1885
Text:   Obituary - Sycamore True Republican - 1 April, 1891. Sycamore, DeKalb Co., Ill
5. Title:   Find A Grave
Text:   Find a Grave Index 1600 - Current
6. Title:   1850 U.S. Federal Census
7. Title:   Obituary
8. Title:   Obituary
Author:   Sycamore True Republican Newspaper
Publication:   1904
Text:   Obituary - Sycamore True Republican Sycamore, Ill.

Notes
a. Note:   N9 An original settler in DeKalb in 1835- 36. Selected to the 1854 county political convention as a delegate of the Democratic Party to the Republican Convention. He was anti-slavery and not wholly united with the Democrats. He was also Superintendant of Schools from 1851-1856, and Coroner from 1861 - 1862. ( DeKalb Co., IL) He also served as Vice President of the State Fair Association in 1861. He also suggested the name Pampas for the township since it resembled the pampas of South America. He was Town Supervisor from 1863-65. He also served as Coroner from 1860 - 1862.
b. Note:   e as to their boundaries.
Note:   Believed to be born in Clinton Co., N.Y. although he later claimed Vermont. At the time the two states were in disput
c. Note:   "Died Jan. 30, 1885, at his home near Wellman, Iowa, J. R.Cros[s]ett, aged 72 years." "The deceased was born at or near Castleton, Vt., June 21, 1812, from which place his father's family emigrated in his early childhood making their new home in western New York, then a new country.There he passed the years of his early manhood, occupied mostly as a teacher until 1848, when he moved to northern Illinois remaining there till 1868 when he again removed this time to his late home in Greene township,Iowa County. He was converted and united in early life with the M. E. Church in which connection he continued an earnest and faithful member." "He was married in his 26th birthday to Abigail Perkins of Warsaw, N. Y. who remains to mourn the loss of a kind and considerate companion." Burial - [place: Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Joetown, Johnson Co., IA]
d. Note:   Pleasant Hill Cemetery

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