East Tennessee is part of Appalachia. At the end of the French and Indian War, colonists began drifting into the area. In 1769, they first settled along the Watauga River. During the Revolution, the Overmountain Men defeated British loyalists at the Battle of Kings Mountain. The State of Franklin was formed in the 1780s, but never admitted to the Union.
William King Cross was born in 1814 in Piney Flats, Sullivan County, Tennessee. He was the son of Elijah Cross and
He married Loozenia Gross. She was the daughter of Jacob Gross and Sarah Farrington.
Sarah Ann Cross
Nancy Jane Cross
Jacob Gross Cross
Susan Cross
Emaline
R. Cross (1846)
Elizabeth Florence Cross (1849, married George Washington Smith)
William Carter Cross
Eldridge Cross
Isaac
Cross
His second wife was Eliza Carlton.
Ellen Akard Cross
Carlton Blake Cross
William died in 1893.
Sullivan County is in far northeast corner of Tennessee between North Carolina and Virginia and was originally part of those states. It was formed in 1779 when it was divided from Washington County.
