Full Name: Josiah Frazier Crosby
Birth date: January 3, 1829
Death date: January 3, 1904
Terms of Service
House,
6th Legislature
11/5/1855 - 11/2/1857
House,
5th
(1)
Legislature
11/7/1853 - 11/5/1855
(1)
A post office operated at Magoffinsville in 1852 and 1853. In January 1854 an army post was established there. In March 1854 the post was officially designated Fort Bliss.
Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical Notes and Resources
Resolutions and Journal entries
5th Legislature - Roll of Members, Josiah [F.] Crosby, age 25, native state South Carolina, emigrated from Alabama in 1838, lawyer, postoffice McGoffinsville, El Paso County.
House Journal .
Other Resources
Judge Josiah Frazier Crosby, born 1829, death date 1/3/1904, burial in Concordia Cemetery, El Paso, El Paso County. Includes portrait and obituary. No grave marker photo.
Find a Grave .
CROSBY, JOSIAH FRAZIER (1829-1904). Birth date 1/3/1829; death date 1/3/1904.
Handbook of Texas Online .
Confederate States Army, acting quartermaster general with Henry H. Sibley and later adjutant general on the staff of Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith.
Handbook of Texas Online .
Obituary, "Judge Crosby at Rest," El Paso Daily Times, 1/6/1904, p. 5, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. "In 1852 the deceased came to El Paso and in '54 and '56 he was elected to the state legislature."
Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .