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From: KATHY <>
Subject: Omwake
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 14:00:14 -0700 (PDT)

Found this info , and believe that Annie Beck is one of my Ancestors , does anyone know who Jacob Omwake was ? Name was probably Anna Rebecca Beck , daughter of Jacob Beck and Elizabeth ? . born 1824 - 26 .


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Sarah (Craun) Cromer, natives of Maryland, but who were among the early settlers of this county, where the former died in 1881 in his sixty-eighth year; the latter, a daughter of John and Deborah (Lee) Craun, is still living. Mr. Cromer was married, April 4, 1867, to Rebecca Omwake, who was born in Franklin County, Penn., March 31, 1846, daughter of Jacob and Annie (Beck) Omwake, who came to this county in 1848, many of whose family died of cholera in 1855. To Mr. and Mrs. Cromer were born four children: Alton E., Annie E., Mary B. and Hiram F. In the spring of 1883 Mr. Cromer was elected justice of the peace. He is doing a large business, and his decisions are universally respected. He served two terms as trustee and twelve consecutive years as a member of the school board, securing by his untiring energy, an extension of the school year. He is a member of the K. of H., at Fort Seneca. He is very active in the cause of temperance; is a member of the Methodist Protestant Chu!
rch, and
has been a representative to the annual conference. Mr. Cromer served in Company H, One Hundred and Sixtyfourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, doing duty at Washington, D. C. In politics he is a Republican.



Kathy




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