Floyd Crosby and Aliph Van Cortlandt Whitehead’s son, Ethan Crosby, was born on March 7, 1937, and passed away in 1997. He was raised near Los Angeles. He characterized himself as a “loner” in his early years, preferring to read to socialize, and he only started performing music when his parents gave him a guitar when he was in the fifth or sixth grade.
Ethan and his brother David started going to Camp Trinity in the Trinity National Forest in Northern California for summer camp in the middle of the 1940s. Crosby was deeply impressed by the camp’s concentration on the outdoors and lack of dependency on technology.
Ethan Crosby cause of death: What happened to David Crosby’s brother?
Ethan Crosby, who trained Crosby to play the guitar and helped launch his musical career, committed suicide in late 1997 or early 1998, however the exact date is unknown because Ethan left a message asking people not to look for his body and to instead allow him to return to the ground. Months later, in May 1998, his body was discovered.
