TWO HUGHES MARRY TWO CROSS'S EARLY 1800'S
REBECCA WALLACE WAS BORN IN SUSSEX COUNTY, VIRGINIA (DATE UNKNOWN).
SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF JAMES WALLACE, WHO, ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, HAD
NO SONS, BUT THREE DAUGHTERS, REBECCA, SARAH, AND PRISCILLA.
ON DECEMBER 18, 1780, REBECCA MARRIED WILLIAM CROSS. THEY MIGRATED
FROM VIRGINIA TO MUHLENBERG COUNTY, KENTUCKY. THIS WAS PRIOR TO 1804.
THE CHILDREN OF REBECCA AND WILLIAM WERE: (SURNAME CROSS).
JAMES M. FEB. 15, 1810 POLLY ARNOLD
WILLIAM JR. M. PRUDENCE RANDOLPH
POLLY M. NOV. 10, 1809 ROBERT RANDOLPH
M. MAR. A4, 1824 JESSE MURPHY
SARAH M. ca.1807 JESSE HUGHES
ALEXANDER M. ca.1815 CATHERINE HUGHES
NANCY M. FEB. 21, 1817 WILLIAM HARGRAVE
WILLIAM CROSS JR. AND HIS WIFE, PRUDENCE, MOVED TO WHITE COUNTY, ILLINOIS
IN 1812.
THESE RECORDS ARE FROM THE FILES OF MRS. ROY DANIEL, 627 N. CROCKETT
SAN BENITO, TEXAS 78586
AUTHOR'S NOTES: MRS. DANIEL HAS NOTED THAT IT IS BELIEVED THAT JAMES
WALLACE, WHO WAS MURDERED BY JOHN TURNER IN SUSSEX COUNTY, MIGHT BE
THE JAMES WALLACE WHO WAS THE FATHER OF REBECCA.
Data shared from "The Wallace Collection" privately published in 1979 by Ruth Petracek
Happy Hunting, Kathryn Mero Holmes Lang