Crandall, John 1808-1873

CRANDALL, MILLER

Posted By: Audrey Haught
Date: 1/15/2018 at 20:08:18

In Honey Creek township, near Yankee Settlement, on the 26th of January, 1873, Mr. John Crandall, aged 64 years, 7 months and 20 days.

Mr. Crandall was born May 30th, 1808, in Canada, but came with his parents when in early childhood in the States, and settled in the State of New York. Here he resided most of the time for 39 years.

Having at this time been a sufferer from the Asthma some three or four years, and failing in securing permanent medical relief and hoping that a change of climate would prove more beneficial than medical aid had heretofore been, he, in 1854 emigrated to Iowa, and selected his future home at the Settlement, and most of the time in Lodomillo township, Clayton county.

But his disease had become too deeply seated to yield to medical and or climate change. For some 28 or 24 years, with the exception of a few months some two or three years since, he had only slept, at night or by day, summer and winter, sitting his chair. Mr. Crandall was endowed with good common sense, a god business tact, clear, just conceptions of right and wrong, and an indomitable will, to which probably he owes some years of life. He was consciously honest in all his dealings, frank and outspoken in his opinions and also in his friendships. He died trust in Jesus.

Clayton County Journal: February 12, 1873

Note: Husband of Sally Maria (Miller) Crandall, 1810-1909. Her obit states: "...remains were taken to Edgewood for interment beside her husband".