George Washington CROSE

1824 - 1864  (40 years)

• Name	George Washington CROSE
  Birth	1824	Madison, Boone County, Kentucky
  Gender	Male
  FamilySearch ID	2762-HZY
  _UID	A95C879C6F0E48FA80FAAB0D60BB427AF072
  Death	1 Nov 1864	Camp Groce, Hempstead, Waller County, Texas
  Person ID	I29544	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	15 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	Samuel CROSE, Sr.,   b. 4 Dec 1803, Bourbon, Kentucky d. 1837, Frankford, Pike County, Missouri (Age 33 years)
  Mother	Priscilla WHITE,   b. 9 Mar 1805, Nicholas, Kentucky d. 1880, Prairie Township, Randolph, Missouri (Age 74 years)
  Marriage	29 Mar 1822	Nicholas, Kentucky
  Family ID	F13970	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	1. Samuel CROSE   2. Priscilla CROSE
  Family ID	F14033	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Betty Martin reports children were Samuel and Priscilla Crose, named after parents. Was part indian. Was a confederate cavalry soldier, captured in Civil War. Died as a POW in Union camp, probably of yellow fever epidemic. Located: Austin Branch Road 2.5 miles west of its intersection with 25th Street in Hempstead Several Confederate military facilities were positioned near Hempstead (2.5 mi. w), an important railroad junction, during the Civil War. Camp Groce (then about 6 mi. e) was a prisoner-of-war stockade established on the plantation of Leonard Waller Groce (1806-1873). Union Army prisoners who died at various camps were buried hear this site on the McDade Plantation, adjacent to the McDade family cemetery (about 25 yds. ne). The cemeteries were near a narrow gauge spur off the "Austin Branch" of the Houston & Texas Central Railroad, built from Houston in 1858. A yellow fever epidemic in 1864 resulted in many deaths at Camp Groce and other camps, chronicled by Aaron T. Sutton (1841-1927). a Union prisoner in Company B, 83rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Sutton noted in his journal the presence of more than 100 fresh graves here soon after his arrival at Camp Groce in 1864. Sutton later escaped from the stockade and made his way to Beaumont (115 mi. e) on foot. Crude crosses made of cedar limbs marked the prisoners' graves through the early 1900s, according to local residents. But the stream-fed woodland was cleared in the 1940s for pasture land, and all surface evidence of the cemetery was lost.