Barton County, Missouri Biographies-H. F. CROSS

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, 
Missouri, 1889.  Published by Goodspeed. Pages 876, 877

H. F. Cross, a farmer, residing near Lamar, Mo., is the owner of 120 acres
of land, which place is well tilled, and denotes the thrift and enterprise
which have ever characterized its owner's efforts. He was reared to a farm
life, and at the early age six-teen years enlisted in the Forty-eighth 
Missouri Infantry, U. S. A., was in numerous skirmishes, but no regular 
engagements.  After the close of the war he returned home and remained 
under shelter of the paternal roof until twenty-two years of age, when he
rented land and began farming on his own responsibility.  He continued to 
farm on rented land until 1881, when he came to Barton County, Mo., and 
bought eighty acres of land, which he has increased to 120 acres.  In 
August, 1872, he was married to Miss Mary E. Vought, a native of the 
"Buckeye State," by whom he, has three children: Edna, Frederick, and 
Neherniah, all of whom are at home. In his political views Mr. Cross is 
a Republican and takes an active part in politics, as well school and all
worthy public enterprises. His parents, N.F. and Martha (Headen) Cross,
were born in York State, and the father was of German descent. About 1858 
he moved to Henry County, Ill., where he rented a farm and lived two years,
then moved to Miller County, Mo., and here made his home until the close 
of the war. He then bought a farm in Bates County, Mo., on which he made 
his home until his death, February 14, 1877, at the age of sixty-one years.
He was a member; the I.0.0.F.  His widow still survives him, and resides 
in Barton County, being a strict member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Their union resulted in the birth of six boys: William H, now a farmer in 
the State of Oregon, was a soldier in the Fourth Missouri Infantry and the
Sixteenth Missouri Cavalry, and, served five years; Henry E.; Joshua, a 
resident of Kansas City, was a soldier in the Forty-eighth Missouri 
Infantry; Herbert, residing in the State of Oregon; Ambrose, a farmer of 
Barton County, Mo.; and Norman, also a farmer of this county. 

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