Crane, George

CRANE, WILSON, BAILY, MCDONALD, SHEARER, MINER

Posted By: Gary Norris (email)
Date: 1/4/2013 at 08:03:30

The History of Poweshiek County, Iowa
Des Moines: Union Hist. Co., 1880.

CRANE, GEORGE - Deep River Twp - pg 722-23. Section 35, P.O. Thornburg. Three brothers emigrated from England to America together, one settling in Pennsylvania, one in New Jersey and one in Connecticut. He is probably descended from the latter. His grandfather Crane was born in New Haven, Connecticut, October 7, 1790; followed his father - s trade of blacksmithing, in connection with some farming, all his life; fought in the War of 1812, and died in Morrow county, Ohio, in 1862. His father (Alson B.) was born, one of nine children, in Putnam county, New York, April 25, 1814; raised a farmer and blacksmith; enlisted in company F, Thirty-fourth Illinois volunteers, and participated in the battle of Pittsburg Landing; was in the hospital at Louisville, Kentucky, 111 days, during six weeks of which time his wife was with him, and received his honorable discharge February 9, 1863, his health having been permanently impaired in the army; married in Bennington township, Morrow county, Ohio, August 22, 1835, Mary A. Wilson, who was born in Morrow county, Ohio, August 4, 1817, and emigrated to the present family home July 18, 1866; owns a well stocked farm of eighty acres; and has raised a family as follows: Adelia M. (born April 1, 1836; married December 10, 1854, to George Yates, who died June 7, 1877), Albasinda (born April 3, 1838, died November 5, 1838), Susan (born October 9, 1840, died July 1, 1841), Amza (born June 14, 1842, married Achsah Baily, who died January 14, 1872, and he remarried in June, 1872, Elizabeth McDonald, the widowed sister of his first wife), Zebulon (born August 25, 1844, married in June, 1867, Jane Shearer), and George, the subject of this sketch. He was born in Taylor township, Ogle county, Illinois, January 7, 1853; was raised in Gran Detour, Illinois, where he attended school until thirteen years old. He married in Prairie township, Keokuk county, Iowa, December 28, 1876, Zearalda Miner, of the township, who was born in Jefferson county, Indiana, September 26, 1864. They have the following children: Harry H. (born July 25, 1877), Charles H. (born April 8, 1879, died September 30, 1879), and Mary (born August 12, 1880). Mr. C. owns the west half of the northeast quarter of section 35, of Deep River township, comprising eighty acres of good land. He is serving his township as school director, and is a young man of enterprise, frugality, and energy, upon whose brow the goddess of fortune will ultimately place a golden crown.