NameMelvin Ardith Crose, 2C1R
Birth15 Sep 1917, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Death11 Feb 1973, Kingman, Fountain Co., Indiana
BurialCrix Cemetery, Rowan Co., Ky
Marriageaft 1952, Kentucky
SpouseIvory Sloan, 2C1R
Birth12 Dec 1923, Rowan Co., Kentucky
Death25 Sep 1997, Morehead, Rowan Co., Kentucky
BurialTrent Cemetery, Trent Ridge, Rowan Co., Ky
Children
Notes for Melvin Ardith Crose
The Kentucky birth index lists Melvin Crose, born 15 Sep 1917 in Breathitt Co. (a misindexing of Rowan Co.
11), mother’s maiden name Alice Sparks.
Notes for Ivory Sloan
The Kentucky birth index lists Ivory Sloan, born 12 Dec 1923 in Rowan Co., mother’s maiden name Ellen Trent.
Her obituary in the Morehead News of 30 Sep 1997 says: “Ivory Sloan Crum Crose, 73, of Mocabee Creek, Olive Hill, died Thursday, Sept. 25, at the St. Claire Medical Center in Morehead.
She was born Dec. 12, 1923 in Rowan County to the late Melvin and Ellen Trent Sloan.
She was preceded in death by her first husband, Willie Crum, in 1952; her second husband, Melvin Crose in 1973; two sisters, Audry Sloan Pennington and Dellie Sloan; two brothers, Glennis Ray Sloan and Melvin Sloan Jr.
Surviving are four sons, Charles Crum of Olive Hill, Clester Crum and Lester Crum, both of Muncie, Ind. and Danny Crose of Montezuma, Ind.; one stepson, Ardith Crose of Illinois; three daughters, Glessie Fultz of Olive Hill, Fay Moore of Morehead and Mary Russell of Marshall, Ind.; six brothers, Fonza Sloan, Richard Sloan, Dennis Sloan and Kenneth Sloan, all of Olive Hill, Lonnie Sloan of Elliottville and Harold Sloan of Sandy Hook; six sisters, Eula Mae Conley of Gary, Ind., Louise Adkins, Maxine Dehart, Guyan Mabry and Stella Fraley, all of Elliottville.
Also surviving are 19 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.
Funeral services were scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 28 at the Northcutt & Son Home for Funerals with the Rev. Jack Evans and the Rev. Ray Glover officiating with burial at the Trent Cemetery on Trent Ridge. Pallbearers: Brian Blevins, Darrel Hamilton, George Gyurik, Tracy Hamilton, Kenny Ryan, William Forrest, Lee Russell and Raymond Moore.”