Robert W. Cress Jr. says he was born in Danville, Vermilion Co., IL. (SV-1262)
1920 KY census: Aged 6 living in Clay Co. with parents, paternal grandmother, 2 brothers and sister. (SV-821)
1930 KY census (Ancestry.com): Aged 16, living in Clay Co. with parents and brother. (SV-1044)