Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-05-10
Memorial Tribute.

well known residents OF western New {
ada, died April 81. 1901. at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. J. w. Maddrill,
in Oakland, Cal. aged - years. She
was native of New York. and in 1892,
with her husband, Ia D. Cross, en-
@ ate6 TO Gallo MIA by the overland
route, settling at frst ia P1u4nas county
and subseq uentlv az Peta luna. Sonoma
county.
In 1864 joining in She famous Washoe
silver excitement, they removed with !
theit fami V of eight child en-, six girls !
, and Two boys, to the then Territory OF !
Nevada. making their home at the |
booming town of Como. PALMYRA min |
ing district. Lyon county, where Mr..
Cross had already erected the primer
pal hotel and was also interested in the
Montgomery and other supposed to be
valuable leading mines. Como had a
population of five or SIX hundred peo-
! pie, including several families. a publ C
school, a weekly newsraper-the
y
telegraph, stage lines and all else per-
tanning to such fourisbing cou NUM-
ties.
The arrival of the Cross family with
their 'Young Girls from Sonoma,
was regarded as an suspicious public
event, and they directly found plenty
of welcoming and appreciative friends.
; Mrs Cross being OF very amiable
l social and intelligent disposition. had a
: good mate in her public spirited and
: popular husband, and their National
Hotel naturally became headquarters
, for home society, as we'll as the travel
: ing public The children reflected the
nature of their parents. and Como
without the Cross family would have
been popularity incomplete. Evervbod Y
was sociahle, hopeful and happy &c
. place like Como.
= But su"@ine waves of adversely and
1 disappointment came. The 'eputed
gold and silver richness OF the various
very promising quartz lodges failed tC
mate,ialiZe, he ores did not pay unde'
the milling stamps. everybody proceed
: to get out as best they could, and C"o5
moved his hotel and family down K
Dayton, the county seat, ten miles be
low on Carson river. The childrel
. began marrying away. great fire de
stroved the best part of the town. in
Guiding the National Hotel. and subse
quently the brave father, with his de
voted lie partner and little ones, shak
,ode forth on the wheels of a new min
ing excitement out to Wood River
Idaho. There Mr.. Cross at last yield
, ed to sickness and death-siNteen ycaI
=. ago-and the widowed mother wit
her fatherless family returned to Ne,
ada and California.
All the rest of the children hav
since married. and the good trr
mother passed her declining years haI
r. PLY. amid peaceful hone surrounding
with those whom she had so well love
l., residences of the eight children ar
E. Mrs Frances Bark, Mill Valley Cal
av Mrs. SADIE Maddrill, Mrs. Hattie NJ
Oregon. Mrs. Lola Stevenson and II
,e- D. Cross. Jr.. Oakland. Cal: Nh.
as w. Cross, Spokane. Washington, ar
ID Mrs. Emma Seaton aud Mrs. Cora
Stoddard, Reno, Nevada.
Two A noble-healted wife. mother al
nd friend has gone to her final rest in t
in eternal beyond, and all who knew b
get best in life, the most sincerely appre
ate and sympathize in the sad bereav
the ment of her we'll beloved children, W
AeN will evermore bless the memory
=, their dearest and best friend on cart
", A. d.