Warren Crandall Do you have any surnames in your tree where it appears that everyone with that surname goes back to a common ancestor? For me, I believe that everyone with the BRILES surname has ancestry going back to Randolph county, North Carolina. And, when I see the surname CURREY (spelled with the 'e'), I …
Category: Crandall
Friday Findings
Crandall Bible While searching for information on my Hutchinson / Harding lines at the genealogy library hosted by the Northwest Missouri Genealogical Society in St. Joseph, Missouri, I ran across a family Bible containing CRANDALL Bible records. Since Salome Crandall is one of my 2nd great grandmothers, I took pictures of the family information in …
Lewis Crandall Descendants
Currently, FamilySearch has identified 11 children for Lewis Crandall. John Nafus Crandall's obituary, which states he was the 5th child out of 10, would indicate that one of those 11 children does not belong. Since some of these children died young and others are missing from most Iowa records, it may never be possible to …
Frederick Crandall
As discussed in my Census Confusion blog post, figuring out a family unit from an 1850 census record can prove difficult. The 1850 census record for Carroll County, Indiana shows a 15 year old Hiram Currey living in the household of Jane Currey. Thus, it would be easy to place Hiram as a child in …
Crandall Deeds
Lewis Crandall died sometime before May 1852 when the first entry for his estate occurs in the probate records for Van Buren County, Iowa. Many of the probate entries discuss his land. Thus, the deed records are needed to help document the family. The first entry I've found for Lewis Crandall in the Van Buren …
Crandall Probate
What's your dream of a 'perfect' probate record? Is it a will naming all of the children in order of their birth? I know that identifying the children would be a major aspect of a perfect probate record. When it comes to Lewis Crandall's probate record, it is not one concise document but spread over …
Lebanon, Oregon
Photo Stirs ‘Lebanon of Yore’ Memories By Jo Sommer Memories of yore have certainly been stirred by the “Lebanon of Yore” picture printed in the Jan. 5 express (page 11). By combining facts given by several informants in telephone conversations, we have compiled a story to go with the picture. R is reprinted here to …
Clippings
Did you happen to receive obituary clippings from an older relative? Thanks to my grandmothers, I was fortunate to receive several obituary clippings. As I was updating my research of John N. Crandall, I found that I have cited such a clipping but cannot find the actual obituary in my files. Thus, I started looking …
Master Builder
Have you ever thought about who built the county courthouse, the church or a school in a farming community? I have to admit that I haven't paid attention to who built these older buildings or even when they were built. That was until I started researching my CRANDALL cousins and learned more about John Nafus …
Salome Crandall
Salome Adell Crandall was born on 24 Jun 1836 in Ohio, Kentucky, United States.1–6Saloma Crandall was listed as a 15 year old female born Ohio in the household of Anna Crandall on the 1850 census. The family was living in Washington Township, Van Buren, Iowa, United States.7She sold interest in the fractional quarter of Section …