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From: "Karen Zach" <>
Subject: Re: [InFounta] CRAIN bio - Death Date
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:12:28 -0400
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What Johnson did Nancy Crain marry? Do you know the Crain children's father
& mother?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Lowe" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: [InFounta] CRAIN bio - Death Date


>I was in error on the death date of William Sawyer Crain's death date
> by one day. It was June 9, 1877 according to his gravestone. I will
> email Karen and Jeff with a photo of the stone.
>
> Rich Lowe
>
> At 10:32 AM 9/25/2007, Jeff Scism wrote:
>
>
>>Let me adjust that, I bet he died when Rich said he did, but the Book
>>author probably had 1876, and a typo occurred.
>>
>>
>> >>> 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.
>>
>>--
>>
>>
>>Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG
>>~~
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