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From: "Karen Zach" <>
Subject: Re: [InFounta] CRAIN bio - please add to website :) KZ
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:44:38 -0400
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"Mr. Crain died May 5, 1826" is what it says. Weird, huh?
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From: "Rich Lowe" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: [InFounta] CRAIN bio - please add to website :) KZ


> Could you please double check that death date in the last paragraph
> transcribed as May 5, 1826? This would have been 3 years before he is
> said to have arrived in Fountain County. My records show his death
> date as June 8, 1877.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Rich
>
> At 09:03 AM 9/25/2007, you wrote:
>>Beckwith, HW. History of Fountain County, Indiana. Chicago: HH
>>Hill, 1881, p. 95. William S. CRAIN made his advent in the spring
>>of 1829, bringing with him his wife and five children - Mary,
>>Margaret, Martha, William and Charles. He came on a steamboat
>>during a freshet of the Wabash River. At that time there stood two
>>small lodg cabins near the river, and into one of them Mr. Crain
>>housed his family for a time, although greatly crowded. He
>>immediately purchased lot 119, on which he erected a two-story frame
>>dwelling, into which he moved his family. At the rear of this he
>>built a shop for a hattery, as he was a hatter by trade. In this
>>building he lived till about 1868, when he purchased property in the
>>north part of town and rented his building on the square. In 1870
>>it was entirely destroyed by fire. Mr. Crain then sold 22' front on
>>the corner to Mr. Harter, who erected on it the present brick store
>>building. He sold 22' front to Mr. H.R. Claypool, who leased it to !
>> Mortimer Steely, by whom a small frame building was
>> built. Michael Port bought the other 22' on which he built a large
>> brick business house, now occupied by Samuel Boord as a meat
>> market. Mr. Crain died May 5, 1826. His 3 daughters, Mrs. Dr.
>> Hamilton, Mrs. H.R. Clapool and Mrs. Nelson reside in Covington.
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