A Teenager’s War: a sixteen year old boy’s memory of the Civil War by Glenda Lee Jensen

When George Richardson Cruzen was born on 30 November 1844, in Harpers Ferry,

Jefferson, Virginia, United States, his father, Richard Richardson Cruzen, was 41 and his

mother, Aurelia Wayne North, was 39. He married Lucinda Mildred Elder on 4 May 1871,

in Ray, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters.

He lived in Warrensburg, Johnson, Missouri, United States in 1910 and Kansas City,

Jackson, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. He died on 8 June 1936, at the age of

91, and was buried in Warrensburg, Johnson, Missouri, United States.