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Transcription contributed by Arne H Trelvik 3 June 2005 |
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The History of Warren County Ohio Part V. Biographical Sketches Clear Creek Township (Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992) |
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SAMUEL R. CRANE, retired farmer; P. O. Red Lion, was born in the house in which he resides, in Section 15, Clear Creek Township, Warren Co., Ohio, Sept, 3, 1818. He is a son of Abner and Huldah (Robertson) Crane, natives of New Jersey. The paternal grandmother of our subject, a widow with six children - Abner, Jonathan, Stephen, Moses, and two daughters, one of whom married Daniel Doty, who accompanied them - emigrated to Warren County in the year 1795. Abner, while out hunting, followed a beautiful stream to its scource, which proved to be two fine constant springs, and so struck his fancy that he concluded to locate near them; accordingly he entered from the Government the land surrounding them, and here lived until his death, which occurred April 3, 1848. The mother died at Middletown, Butler Co., Ohio, at the advanced age of 91 years, and her remains were interred there. The mother of our subject having died in January, 1835, the land descended to the heirs, and was purchased by him who has since owned it. He has followed farming during the whole of his life, until his recent retirement. He has amassed a handsome fortune, including over 1,400 acres of land and town property to the value of $18,000. He was married, March 18, 1840, to Elenor J., a daughter of Samuel and Keturah (Townsend) Dearth; the former a native of Pennsylvania, from which State he emigrated to Warren County in 1798, and remained here until his death July 19, 1862; the latter a native of New Jersey with two brothers Josiah and Jesse, and mother Judith, a widow, emigrated to Warren County in 1810. She died Dec. 31, 1868. Mr. Crane by his marriage had the following children - Sylvester E., who married Sarah A. Eyer, April 3, 1862, and to whom was born one son who died March 6, 1864. Sylvester enlisted during the late war in Co. B, 64th O. V. I., and died at Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 12, 1862, of relapse of the measles; William A. married Sarah E. Blinn, and has had seven children - Zina, Ida B., George, Samuel, Emma F., Charles and Mary E.; Keturah J. married Gilbert H. Doty, she died Feb. 11, 1874, leaving four children-Mary F., Ellen M., Charles B. and Jennie; Judith A., married David D. Monger, and has one child-Leroy E.; Ruth A. married Hugh P., Vail, and has one child, Charles E.; Mary E. died unmarried ; Huldah A., married Benjamin E. Blackburn, and has one child, William C. The subject of this sketch has lived to see his surviving children all well settled in life and it; now enjoying the peace, quiet and rest that he has so well earned. His portrait appears in this work, as one of the wealthiest farmers in the county; though more than threescore years of age, he is still hale and hearty. He has met with a number of serious accidents, his escape from |
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death in some cases being little less than miraculous. In February, 1871, while in a tree adjusting a rope, a tree which he was uprooting, fell and throw him to the ground a distance of sixty feet by actual measurement, falling in a low place in the ground with the tree-top over him; he escaped without broken bones, but with a bruised and lacerated body. He has also been kicked by horses, and thrown out of vehicles by runaway teams. As Mr. Crane himself graphically expresses it, he has been killed six times. |
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