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From: "Karen Zach" <>
Subject: Re: [InFounta] CRAIN bio - please add to website :) KZ
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:21:56 -0400
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I thought that might be it, but Rich says:
My records show his death
>> date as June 8, 1877.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Rich
I'm carbon copying to Betty D. She might have him in a cemetery record that might prove his date then we could put a notation on the bio, okay Jeff???

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Scism" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [InFounta] CRAIN bio - please add to website :) KZ


>I BET he died in 1876.
>
> Karen Zach wrote:
>> "Mr. Crain died May 5, 1826" is what it says. Weird, huh?
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Rich Lowe" <>
>>
>>
>>> 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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