Cross, Joshua L

Cross, Joshua L.

a Baptist minister, was born in Tennessee in 1822. He joined the Church in 1847, was ordained in October of that year, and began his work in western Tennessee in 1848, visiting the churches in Henderson County, and acting as pastor at Unity until the close of 1849; after which he labored in Fayette County, other parts of western Tennessee, and in parts of northern Mississippi for a number of years. In 1869 his labors were divided between the churches at Byhalia and Olive Branch, until his death, March 11, 1870. See Borum, Sketches of Tenn. Ministers, page 113. (J.C.S.).