Craine, George 1814 - 1889

CRAINE, HARDIN

Posted By: Deborah Brownfield - Stanley (email)
Date: 6/9/2005 at 08:55:21

The Fairfield Tribune
Oct. 30, 1889
Page 5 col. 2

DEATH OF AN OLD CITIZEN. Thursday, Oct. 24, at 8:45 A. M. occurred the death of MR. GEORGE CRA(I)NE, on East Burlington Street….Deceased was born near Holidaysburg, Pa., Feb. 16, 1814. In 1841 he was married to NANCY JANE HARDIN, in Sangamon County, Ill., and removed to this state the same year, going first to Iowa City, where he lived a short time, and during the following year he removed to Fairfield. Here he was engaged in the dry goods business for several years in a frame building where Thorne’s Store now stands. In 1860, on account of failing health, he went to Colorado, where he remained about three years, and had charge of a quartz mill. After regaining his health he returned to Fairfield, where he has followed the carpentering business up to the time of his late sickness…..MR. CRAINE was a builder and contractor, and monuments to his skill and ability as such today can be seen in both city and county. After the funeral services at the home of the Masons, to which order he belonged during his life, took charge of the burial. Two sons and two daughters survive him and were all with him during his last sickness.