JOHN L. CROSS, farmer, P. O. Tiffin, was born July 17, .1812. in Berkeley County, Va.; son of John (a farmer) and Deborah (Comegys) Cross, natives of Maryland, and who came to Ohio in 1828, settling in Eden Township, this county; their family, Maria, Benjamin C., John L., Deborah A. and Cornelius, accompanying them. Of this family only John L. and Deborah A. (Mrs. Boroff) survive. Here John Cross entered a piece of unimproved land, and began the life of a pioneer. Our subject has lived in this county since he was sixteen years old. He was married, in 1839, to Eliza, daughter of Henry and Sarah Boroff, of Virginia, and who was one of four children to come with their widowed mother r to this county, their father having died in Virginia. To Mr. and Mrs. Cross have been born seven children: Mary E. (wife of A. Woolpert), Henry C. (married to Mary R. Geary), Hamilton J. (married to Susan Kinser), Newton (married to Ida Geary), Lewis C., Benjamin F. and Eliza J. (The three last named are deceased.) Our subject owns a farm of 102 acres in this county, and eighty acres in Wyandot County, Ohio.


Trancribed by Bonnie Walsh.
WARNER, BEERS & CO., 1886
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, Part IV, p.847-848
EDEN TOWNSHIP