| ELSIE MABLE CROSBY b. August 7th 1886 |
| It is very difficult to write on one short page about such a Great Lady as my grandmother, Elsie M. Crosby. She left us all a book of her life and a book of peoms, which told of all the wonderful things she saw come to pass. She made us dolls, clothes and toy animals. Grandma loved her crossword puzzles and loved to sew for charity. If given the time I will try to add grandma's peoms to this web site. For she ment for us to share them with family and friends. Each and every one of her children, grandchildren, great and great-great and more have learned these wonderful peoms. We have shared them in school and with friends. Grandma was the daughter of Horace Sidney Crosby and Adda Kingdon. She was one of five children. They came out to the West from Colorado in a covered wagon. She told us of her many adventures and how she and her sisters hid from the Indians, under a quilt in the wagon. For they had heard the stories and were not taking any chances. Grandma had FIVE children. Her father was Horace Sidney Crosby, and mother was Adda Kingdon-Crosby. |
| Horace Crosby and Adda Kingdon-Crosby) They had five children: 1.) Jessie Leonora Crosby b. Georgetown, Colo. 22 Dec. 1874 (d.1-26-56) married Leslie Bernard Clawson....5 children 2.) Annie Josephine Crosby b. Marshall Pass, Colo. 13 Jan. 1881 3.) Alfred (Fred) Lincoln Crosby b. Gunnison, Colo. 30 July 1882 4.) Elsie Mable Crosby b. Buena Vista, (Chaffee), Colo. 7 August 1886 (d. 8-21-67) married George Uhrich on 6-4-1908, (3 children) George and Elsie had 3 child 1. George Edward 5-12-10 (two sons and one daughter) 2. Clara Belle 6-29-12 (one adopted daughter & 2 step- daughters 3. Ralph Ernest 1-5-14 (d. Seattle, Wa. 1998 ?) (one son) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Second marriage 4-9-22: Henry Alfred Roberts ( b. 12-31-82 d. 04-21-40) (His father died in Calif. 1895). Mother Sara (Robbins) Roberts (Sara remarried Mr. Ed Chandler. Sara born Madelia, Minn. 1-1-1861 d. Squim,Wa.1937) Henry and Elsie Roberts had 2 children: 4. Roy Alfred Roberts 3-6-24 (d. Tombstone, Az. 4-21-87) (3 children) *5. Etta May Roberts 4-26-25 (11 children) 5.) Florence Eva Crosby b. Garfield (near Newcastle), Colo. 9 August 1888 |
| Elsie Mable Crosby b. Buena Vista, (Chaffee), Colo. 7 August 1886 (d. 8-21-67) (1) Married George Uhrich on 6-4-1908, b. 1 Dec. 1886 at Saratofski, Zabrown, Russia ( a German colony in the Volga Valley); d. Seattle 29 Sept. 1931; son of Jacob and Mary Dorothy (Bernhardt) Uhrich (each born Saratofski; d. Everson, Watcom Co, Washington). Elsie Crosby only went to grade school, but like her father learned many languages. She wrote many poems for her children and of her life. Elsie worked 8 years in the Seattle telephone exchange (between 1904 and 1921. During WWII she was an aircraft repair worker at an army field near Sacramento, California. She read many books on religion but could never make a commitment to one. But she did make many small animals and clown dolls, etc. for the local church bazars. She loved to sew, and made dolls and clothes for her grandkids. Elsie was married three times. She had five beautiful and bright children ......and many grandkids and great...etc Elsie and George Uhrich had 3 children: |
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