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Hot Springs City, Garland County, Arkansas, 25 Apr 1910
p.145a, 603 Park Ave, dwelling number 281, family number 320
Carpenter Edward 45 head m m2-7 w palmist VA NY WI
Neathery 26 wife f m1-7 w palmist IL IL IL
Cross William C. 32 head m m1-8 w laborer TN TN TN
Lizzie M. 33 wife f m1-8 w AL GA AL 1 child, 1 living
Cora May 7 dau f s w TX TN AL
Jenkins Susan 51 motherL f w w AL GA SC 5 children, 1 living
James 24 broL m s w farm laborer AL GA AL
Jarman Frank 28 roomer m s w cook, restaurant TN TN TN
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William C. Cross age 32 was the son of John E. Cross and Nancy A. Letsinger. At the time of the 1910 census, William was a fugitive from justice in Anderson County, Tennessee. He had killed a man in 1896. He was returned to Anderson County for trial in 1912. At the trial, he claimed self defense. He was convicted and sentenced to three years in prison. Given the relatively short prison sentence for so serious a crime as murder, the jury must have at least partly believed his story. William was turned into the authorities in 1912 by his aunt, Mary/Sarah A. Cross who married Jesse S. Letsinger. Sarah was living in Hot Spring County, Arkansas which is adjacent to Garland County. Contemporary newspaper accounts suggest that William was living in Hot Spring County at the time his aunt turned him in, and that she turned him in because she feared for her own safety. John E. Cross was the son of Jesse C. Cross and Amelia (Milly) England. As such, he was the nephew of my third great grandfather Alfred Carter Cross. Also, John E. Cross was the nephew of my fourth great grandfather Titus England and the nephew of my fourth great grandmother Sarah (Sallie) England. Titus and Sallie were brother and sister. Nancy A. Letsinger was the daughter of Daniel (Dan) Letsinger and Mary W. Shinpaugh. Dan was the great grandfather of Samuel Mabry (Sam) Letsinger. Uncle Sam married Elza Cordelia (Elzie) Peters, who was the sister of my grandfather Ernest Lester (Lester) Peters Sr. |
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