Because I have New England Clevelands on my family tree, I grew up believing (thanks to my mother, and her fractured family history; we also had a castle in Scotland!) that I was directly related to President Grover Cleveland. I'm not; his branch is quite a ways from mine. In the same way, most people in the United States who have a William Bradford on their tree probably think they are direct descendants of William Bradford of the "Mayflower." A lot of them are, but there are other possibilities.
I spent several years trying to connect my wife's New York-New Jersey Bradfords to the "Mayflower" line, to no avail. A few of those "Mayflower" Bradfords did trickle down toward New York after a few generations, but none fit with the information we had to work with. Finally, in one of those regional biographical compilations (so popular around the end of the Nineteenth Century) I found what looked to be the right information. Describing the life of James E. Crane, county clerk of Alameda County, California, in 1892: "Grandfather William Bradford came from England at the age of seven" [1]. From other data we had on William Bradford, we concluded that he had arrived in New York about 1775. So, he was here at the time of the "Founding Fathers," but long after the Pilgrims.
After getting this clue to "our" William Bradford's beginnings, some of the other pieces of family information began to fall into place. There are still a lot of holes in the puzzle, and a lot of questions unanswered, but we now have a line that we can take through half a dozen generations. You'll find it below, along with some speculations and analysis that might eventually lead to some more answers. If you can help at all, or if you have questions, please contact me. I have given detailed information only through the Fifth Generation, because some of the Sixth and many of the Seventh are still living. If you have specific questions about more recent members, contact me.
SURNAME INDEX
ABBOTT: Ellen 61
ADAMS: Andrew 55; Elizabeth 55; Emily 24;Isabelle 55; Lorenzo 24; Mary 55; Sarah 24
ALLEN: Effie 24; Kate 24; Spencer 24
ARNOLD: Frances 49; Frank 49; Geraldine 108; Josephine 49; Muriel 109
BARNES: Adelaide 35; Angelina 14; Anna 12; Charles 32, 37; Cora 34; David 14; Francis 12; Frank 12, 31; George 33; Julia 35; Orleanna 12, 36
BARNETT: Martha 16
BASHORE: Arthur 75; Bert 74; Connell 29, 74; Eliza 29; Emily 72; Ethel 73; George 75; Juanita 75; Jessie 29; Susannah 29; Wallace 29
BECK: Jennie 67
BRADFORD: Burk 129; Caroline 7, 25; David 30, 63; Delbert 64; Dora 26; Effie 24; Elaine 127; Ellen 126; Eliza 4, 29; Elizabeth 2, 4, 25; Ellen 24; Emily 24; Emma 30; Fay 128; Fern 127; Frances 64; Francis 78; Frankie 64; George 6, 24; Henrietta 30; Jessie 29; John 7, 63; Josephine 27; Kate 24; Lewis 26; Lorenzo 64; Louis 62; Lowell 79; Maria 30; Martin 62; Mary 30, 126; Mildred 76; Nellie 63; Pansy 62; Sarah 4, 5, 24; Thelma 77; Theresa 5; Walter 28; William 2, 8, 30, 79; Wilmer 76
BRAY: Annie 70; Daisy 70; George 70; Ivy 67; Jennie 67; William 67
BURPEE: Charles 57; Cora 56; Earl 117; Donald 120; Florence 58, 59; Hazel 119; Helen 58; Irene 22; Isabelle 55; Jane 22; Joseph 22, 58, 118; Josephine 22; Lester 55, 117; Mary 55, 119; Solomon 22; Stanley 118; Walter 58
CALMESE: Amelia 45
CHURCH: Elizabeth 39; Genevieve 82; Louise 39; Mary 39; Ruth 81; Samuel 39; Stephen 39
COBB: Elizabeth 2; William 2
CRAIG: Gordon 116; Hugh 54, 116; Inez 54; Miriam 54; Roy 54
CRANE: Alice 15, 23, 98; Angelina 14; Ann 18; Ariel 16; Arthur 46; Bert 16; Calista 83; Charles 21; Clarence 4, 86; David 114; Elbert 16; Elizabeth 21; Ellen 52; Elmer 52; Emma 43; Ethel 41, 85, 91, 100; Eva 17; Evanna 17; Frederick 20, 104; George 44, 87, 99; Gordon 87; Harriet 44, 100; Harvey 5; Irene 45; James 5, 16; Jane 15, 16; John 5; Josephine 22; Julia 18, 45; Lewis 19; Libbie 21; Lillian 42; Linnie 41, 53; Louisa 15; Louise 39, 85; Marion 98; Mary 15, 39; Miriam 54; Radford 112, 113; Raymond 52, 112, 113; Robert 1145; Ruth 16; Sarah 5, 21; Stella 40; Sue 38; Theresa 5; Violet 46; Walton 90; William 15, 42, 84, 92
DABNEY: Alice 89; Ethel 41; Leila 41; Linnie 41; Percy 41; William 41
DEVOE: Edith 75; Juanita 75; Wilbur 75
DODGE: Alison 124; Clarence 60, 123: Edith 60; Edward 60; Evelyn 125; Mary 60; Ruth 125
ELLIOTT: Lavina 47; Margaret 47
FAIRCHILD: Ben 72; Emily 72
FEARN: Ellen 52; John 52; Sarah 52
FELCH: Mary 42
FULTON: Alberta 61; Alice 23; Cary 23; Edith 60; Eva 61; Louellen 23; Samuel 23
GARRECHT: Amalie 50; Lorenz 50; Nellie 50
GILCRIST: Inez 54
GROVER: Florence 58; Helen 58; Marietta 58; William 58
HARRISON: Elizabeth 2
HAZEN: Melissa 24
HIGH: Albert 139; Annie 70; Benjamin 25; Caroline 25, 66; Charles 25, 68; Christina 68; Clarice 136; Daisy 70, 140; Donald 134; Eber 132; Elinor 140; Elizabeth 25; Florence 138; Frances 135; Francis 68, 132; Frank 68; Genevieve 130; Govan 25, 65; Hazel 69; Helen 131; Ivy 67; Jane 25; Jesse 69, 139; Julia 68; Leon 133; Leroy 69; Lewis 67; Marion 65; Mary 25; May 66, 69, 137
HOWARD: Daniel 40; Georgianna 40; Stella 40
GOODWIN: James 16; Jane 16; Ruth 16
KAPP: Alice 44; Frances 44; Harriet 44; James 44
KLOEPPEL: Augusta 30
KRAFT: Augusta 30; Henrietta 30; Julius 30; Maria 30; Mary 30
LEWIS: Lillian; Mary 42; Romeo 42
LINCOLN: Jane 25; Mary 25
LISTER: Elizabeth 39
LOYD: Minerva 24
MADISON: Leila 41
MARTIN: Ellen 24; William 24
McCLELLAND: Louellen 23
McCULLY: Alfred 15; Alice 15; Asa 15; Hannah 15; Keziah 15; Jane 15
McMATH: Cyrus 24; Effie 24; Kate 24; Melissa 24
MERRITT: Elizabeth 21; Libbie 21; Sarah 21
MINTON: Mary 5; Polly 5
MORRISH: Eliza 59; Florence 59; Francis 59; Josephine 122; Kendric 121; William 59
NEEL: Frances 64; Frankie 64; John 64; Sarah 64
NEGLEY: Jane 16; Ruth 16
NORRIS: Ariel 16; Elijah 16; Martha 16
OSBORN: Marietta 58
PREHN: Amalie 50
RANTZ: Daniel 24; Emily 24; Mary 24; Sarah 24
RENTON; Anna 12; Eliza 4; Elizabeth 4; James 4, 10, 13; Josephine 10; Margaret 13; Orleanna 12; Sarah 4; William 9
RICHARDS: Eliza 59
RODSCHOU: Christina 68; Julia 68
SCHOONOVER: Alice 51; Charles 48; Edward 48; Eva 17, 107; Evanna 17; Frances 49; George 47; Gilbert 17; Helen 106; Howard 105; James 50; Jane 17; Josephine 49; Lavina 47; Mame 48; Margaret 47; Mary 17; Nellie 50; Thomas 17; William 50
SCHROLL: Henry 62; Mary 62; Pansy 62
SHIELDS: Sarah 64
SMITH: Alice 44; Frances 44
SPICER: Cornelia; Irene 22; Isaac 22; Jane 22
STOTT: Thelma 77
TAYLOR: Mary 62
THURMAN: Edward 43; Elbert 95; Emma 43; Genevieve 96; George 97; Laurence 97; Robert 95
STEWART: Margaret 30
VANDERCOOK: Cornelia 22
WALLACE: Susannah 29
WARD: Caroline 7: Elizabeth 63; John 63; Mary 63; Nancy 7; Nellie 63; Phineas 7
WATERS: Hannah 15; Keziah 15
WEATHERBEE: Georgianna 40
WEAVER: Elizabeth 63; Mary 63
WHITE: Alfred 69; Florence 69; Hazel 69; May 69
WILLIAMS: James 15; Louisa 15; Mary 15; Thomas 15
WILLIS: Nancy 7
WOHLFROM: Emma 30; Joseph 30; Margaret 30
WORLEY: Amelia 45; Ariel 101; Bernice 102; Fisher 45; Henry 45; Irene 45; Julia 45; Wanda 103
WYMAN: Alberta 61; Burton 61; Ellen 61; Eva 61; Washington 61
WYTHE: Mary 60
GENERATION 1
1. BRADFORD - So far, I only know that
he reportedly brought his family from England when his son William
BRADFORD (William-2) was seven years old [1]. From son William's
age in later censuses, their arrival would have been about 1775
[2, 3].
Because William-2 married in New York City and lived there until
at least 1820, I have assumed that these Bradfords came directly
to New York City from England, and lived their lives there. However,
I haven't found any certain reference to them being there. They
may have landed somewhere else, and William-2 may have made his
way to New York City, later. Because they arrived in the turbulent
days leading to the War of Rebellion, they might have moved more
than once in the last quarter of the 18th Century.
I know of one child:
2. William BRADFORD (ca 1768-ca 1867)
GENERATION 2
2 William BRADFORD
[BRADFORD-l].
William Bradford
was born in England ca 1768 [2, 3], of so far unidentified parents.
He came with his family from England to the American colonies
ca 1775 [1]. I haven't learned anything about his early life.
As noted above, I have assumed that he came with his parents directly
from England to New York City, but I can't positively identify
him there before 1796 [5]. The 1790 U. S. federal census recorded
a William Bradford in New York City's East Ward, in a household
with three females [4]. Was this him, perhaps living with a widowed
mother and his sisters? Pure speculation; obviously, more work
is needed.
William-2 is probably the William Bradford living in Ward 4, New
York City, at the time of the 1800 federal census, in a household
with two adults (male aged 26-44, female aged 16-44) and one male
under 10 [8]. William-2 had married Elizabeth COBB in New York
City, 30 June 1796 [5]. I have no record of a child from this
marriage until ca 1801 (a girl), but a child born between 1797
and 1800 would be logical.
Elizabeth COBB was probably the daughter of William COBB, the
only New York City Cobb recorded in the 1790 New York City census
[4]. I have been unable to find any information about her. She
apparently died early in their marriage, as there is more than
a ten year gap between the known children of William-2. William-2
married 2nd ca 1810-1812 Elizabeth HARRISON. She was born ca 1788,
reportedly in New Jersey [2, 3]. I haven't identified her parents.
William-2 was a merchant tailor on John Street, New York City,
and owned "a square" (city block?) on John Street [1,
6]. He reportedly was a member of the First Methodist Episcopal
Church on John Street [1], but his marriage to Elizabeth Cobb
was performed in the Presbyterian church [5].
This family was almost certainly living in New York City at the
time of the 1810 census, and was probably the William Bradford
household in the Second Ward [9]. The age of the head of household
is too young, as recorded, but otherwise the enumeration seems
possible. There is one male 10-15 years of age (the under 10 male
from 1800?), a female under 10 (matching with a daughter known
born ca 1801), and a female 16-25 (Elizabeth Harrison, William's
second wife?).
The William Bradford family in New York City's Ward 2 in 1820
matches well with other family information I have accumulated:
2 males under 10 (sons born ca 1818 and 1819), 1 male over 45
(William-2), 1 female under 10 (daughter born 1813), 1 female
10-16 (daughter from Elizabeth Cobb marriage), and female 26-45
(Elizabeth Harrison, 2nd wife) [10]. The male recorded in 1800
and 1810 would likely be out of the household by this date.
By 1830, William Bradford had moved his family to Hanover, Morris
County, New Jersey [11]. He continued his tailoring business in
New York City, and must have been the "Mr. Bradford, tailor"
at 112. Fulton Street who, on 13 August 1835, lost his business
when a major fire destroyed the building he used [7]. Financial
troubles continued. "Being kindly disposed to his friends
he endorsed for several and lost heavily in the financial crash
of 1837, saving, however, a competency"[1]. In 1840, the
family was living in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey [12]. William
was listed in the 1840 Newark directory, living at 196 Bank Street,
but with no occupation noted, further suggesting he no longer
had ties to business in New York City [13].
In August 1850, William and Elizabeth were living in Newark with
the family of William's daughter, Sarah Elizabeth (BRADFORD) RENTON
[2]. James RENTON apparently died sometime between 1850 and 1860,
and by June 1860, William, Elizabeth, and the Renton family had
moved to Clark County, Missouri, where William and Elizabeth's
daughter, Sarah Theresa (BRADFORD) CRANE, lived with her family
[3]. They lived there the remainder of their lives. I haven't
been able to find specific death records for either, but William
reportedly died at age 99 (ca 1867) and Elizabeth at about 90
(ca 1868) [1].
William BRADFORD and
Elizabeth COBB had perhaps two children:
3. (Tentative) Male BRADFORD (ca 1798- )
4. Sarah Elizabeth BRADFORD (ca 1801- )
William BRADFORD and
Elizabeth HARRISON had perhaps four children:
5. Sarah Theresa BRADFORD (2 October 1813-18 June 1899)
6. (Tentative) George H. BRADFORD (ca 1815- )
7. John Harrison BRADFORD (5 October 1818-2 November 1905)
8. William H. BRADFORD (October 1819- )
GENERATION 3
3. Male BRADFORD (Tentative) [William BRADFORD-2,
BRADFORD-1]
This male, who may have been the son of William BRADFORD and Elizabeth
COBB, appeared in their household in the 1800 and 1810 censuses
of New York City [8, 9]. He would have been born between 1797
and 1800. I cannot identify him after 1810, but by 1820 he could
have been out of his parents' household.
4. Sarah Elizabeth
BRADFORD [William
BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1]
"Eliza" BRADFORD, the daughter of William BRADFORD and
Elizabeth COBB, was born in New York City ca 1801. She lived in
her father's household in New York City until her marriage 19
June 1821 to James RENTON. I haven't identified James' parents.
He was born ca 1794, possibly in Pennsylvania [2].
I haven't been able to positively identify the family between
their marriage and 1840 but, if the 1850 census is correct, they
were living in New Jersey by ca 1828, when a daughter was born
there [2]. After leaving New York City, they lived first in Morris
County, New Jersey. They were there at least from 1831 to 1834
(children died there). By 1840 they were in Newark, Essex County,
New Jersey, with Eliza's family [12]. James Renton was listed
in the Newark directory as a shoe manufacturer, living at 196
Bank Street [13]. The 1850 census gave his occupation as "ironmaster"
[2].
James RENTON apparently died sometime in the early 1850s, and
by June 1860, the widow Eliza Renton had moved with her family
and her father and step-mother to Clark County, Missouri, where
Eliza's half-sister, Sarah Theresa (BRADFORD) CRANE, lived with
her family [3]. Eliza probably moved to Wisconsin (location undetermined)
with her daughter Anna (RENTON) BARNES and family, living there
at least 1864 to 1868 (children born there). In August 1870 she
was living with the Barnes family at Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pennsylvania [14]. By June 1880 they had moved again,
and were living at Kearney, Buffalo County, Nebraska [15]. I can
find no records of Eliza Renton after that date.
James RENTON and Sarah Elizabeth BRADFORD had at least five children:
9. William Bradford RENTON (27 August 1822-4 August 1831)
10. Josephine RENTON (ca 1828- )
11. James Leander RENTON (1 June 1831-12 March 1834
12. Orleanna RENTON (ca 1839- )
13. James RENTON (April 1843- )
5. Sarah Theresa
BRADFORD [William
BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], daughter of William BRADFORD-2 and Elizabeth
HARRISON, was born in New York City 2 October 1813. She lived
in New York City until sometime in the 1820s, when the family
moved to Hanover, Morris County, New Jersey [11]. She married
James Harvey CRANE ca 1832, probably in Morris County.
James Harvey CRANE, son of John CRANE and Mary MINTON, was born
29 October 1808 at Parsippany, Morris County, New Jersey. Presumably
he attended schools in Morris County and worked with his father,
farming or making barrels. By the early 1830s he had moved to
Newark, Essex County, New Jersey. James was a cabinetmaker and,
with his brothers Lemuel M. CRANE and Daniel B. CRANE, manufactured
and sold cabinets in Newark [15]. About 1842, the brothers established
a furniture warehouse in Mobile, Alabama, and Daniel moved his
family there to operate that end of the business. James and Lemuel
continued to operate the business in Newark. In 1846 Lemuel was
still working as a cabinet maker, but James advertised himself
as an engine manufacturer [16].
Early in 1850, James and Theresa moved their family to near Morgantown,
Monongalia County, (now, West) Virginia, where he was engaged
in "manufacturing" (likely the steam engine manufacturing
he had started in Newark) [1, 17]. Sarah's brother, John Harrison
BRADFORD, and his family probably accompanied them. About 1854
the Crane family moved again, this time to Warren, Allegheny County,
Pennsylvania, where James was involved in the building of a rolling
mill (for the production of sheet and bar metal) [1]. Late in
1856 or early in 1857, they moved west to Clark County, Missouri.
James bought 1,200 acres of land 15 April 1857, intending a major
farming operation. His plans did not work out, and he was forced
to sell the land back to the original owner 25 August 1860 [18].
His farming aspirations apparently continued to go wrong, for
in 1862 he was renting land from his son-in-law Thomas SCHOONOVER,
and by 1864 owed rent for the previous three years. He agreed
to a lien on all his farm property and crops until he could pay
the back rent (which he apparently had done by 25 September 1866,
when the lien was cancelled) [19].
The Cranes lived in Madison Township, Clark County, Missouri,
until ca 1874, when the family moved to Oakland, Alameda County,
California. There, James worked as an insurance agent for Fireman's
Fund, San Francisco [20]. He and Theresa were living in Oakland
with their son Charles W. CRANE, when James died 7 October 1878
[1, 21]. Theresa died in Oakland 18 June 1899. Both were buried
in the Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland [21].
James Harvey CRANE and Sarah Theresa BRADFORD had at least ten
children [22]:
14-Angelina CRANE (September 1833- 5 August 1902)
15-William Bradford CRANE (21 April 1835-20 April 1879)
16-James Elbert CRANE (18 March 1837-)
17-Evanna CRANE (January 1841-)
18-Julia Ann CRANE (26 November 1842-9 April 1912)
19-Lewis CRANE (ca 1845- )
20-Frederick CRANE (ca 1847- )
21-Charles Wilson CRANE (3 December 1848-13 March 1890)
22-Josephine CRANE (May 1851-)
23-Alice CRANE (1 October 1854-12 October 1949)
6. George H. BRADFORD (tentative) [William BRADFORD-2,
BRADFORD-1]
I include George Bradford in this family tentatively because he
was living with William and Elizabeth (HARRISON) BRADFORD in June
1860 at Waterloo, Madison Twp., Clark County, Missouri [3]. He
was born ca 1815, a logical date for a son to have been born.
The census reported him born in New Jersey (should have been New
York, if he fits in this family), but that particular census had
at least five errors in birth locations in the Bradford-Crane-Renton
households. I can't find any certain record of George Bradford
before or after the 1860 census. If not a son of William-2, it
would seem a big coincidence if he wasn't kin of some sort.
7. John Harrison
BRADFORD
[William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1] was born 5 October 1818 in New
York City, New York County, New York, New York. He lived in New
York City until sometime in the 1820s, when the family moved to
Hanover, Morris County, New Jersey [11]. By 1840 they were in
Newark, Essex County, New Jersey [12, 13]. I haven't found out
anything about his young life. It is possible he worked for his
brother-in-law James Renton manufacturing shoes, as he described
himself as a shoe merchant later [17].
On 20 October 1844, probably in Newark, he married Caroline WARD.
Caroline, reportedly the daughter of Phineas WARD and Nancy WILLIS,
was born in Morris County, New Jersey, 22 October 1822 [23]. John
and Caroline lived at Newark until early in 1850, then moved with
the family of John's sister, Sarah Theresa (BRADFORD) CRANE, to
near Morgantown, Monongalia County, (now, West) Virginia, where
John was employed as a shoe salesman [17]. The Cranes stayed in
West Virginia and nearby Pennsylvania for a number of years, but
the Bradfords moved on. Apparently they traveled overland, because
they were in Nebraska Territory in June 1852 (child born) and
in California by October 1854 (child born). They were living at
Cascade City, Butte County, California, in June 1860, where John
was mining [24]. They had moved south to Solano County, California,
by August 1870, and farmed there [25]. In June 1880, they were
in the household of their son, George BRADFORD, who was a farmer
at Orland, Colusa County, California [26].
I have found no specific records of either John or Caroline between
June 1880 and June 1900. The June 1900 census recorded John with
the family of their daughter, Jessie (BRADFORD) BASHORE, in Oceanside,
San Diego County, California [27], and Caroline with their son
Walter BRADFORD at Arbuckle, Colusa County, California [28]. Information
on the internet (without references) is that John died 2 November
1905 at Anaheim, Orange County, California, but is buried at San
Diego. I haven't been able to confirm those dates or places. Caroline
died in San Diego 18 December 1909, and is buried at Mount Hope
Cemetery [29].
John H. BRADFORD and
Caroline WARD had seven children:
24. George Ward BRADFORD
(23 May 1846-13 August 1940)
25. Caroline Elizabeth BRADFORD (10 March 1850-7 April 1932)
26. Lewis Renton BRADFORD (3 June 1852-29 April 1941)
27. Josephine Harrison BRADFORD (29 October 1854- 22 March 1877)
28. Walter Cobb BRADFORD (15 May 1856-19 July 1926)
29. Jessie Eliza BRADFORD (14 November 1860-2 January 1943)
30. William David BRADFORD
(8 October 1864-27 June 1944)
8. William H. BRADFORD [William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1]
was born October 1819 in New York City, New York County, New York
[30], the son of William BRADFORD-2 and his 2nd wife Elizabeth
HARRISON. He lived in New York City until sometime in the 1820s,
when the family moved to Hanover, Morris County, New Jersey [11].
By 1840 they were in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey [12, 13].
In the 1840 Newark directory, he was listed as a law student [13].
I haven't been able to determine where he was studying law, or
if he ever entered the profession.
In 1849, he joined the throngs of young men headed for the California
Gold Rush. He was in Sacramento, Sacramento County, California
in February 1850 [31]. After that, I have found only intermittent
records of him. He apparently served in the military, probably
with the Union Army during the Civil War [32, 33]. About 1895,
he was living in California, but no details were provided [1].
In June 1900 he was living in a rooming house on North Grand Avenue
in Los Angeles, widowed and retired [30]. In May 1910, he was
at the National Home for Disabled Soldiers at Malibu, Los Angeles
County, California [32]. He died 9 March 1912, and was buried
in the Los Angeles National Cemetery [33].
The 1900 and 1910 censuses recorded William-3 as widowed, but
I have never found any record of his wife or any children.
GENERATION 4
9. William Bradford
RENTON [Elizabeth
BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], son of James RENTON
and Eliza BRADFORD, was born 27 August 1822, either in New York
City or in Morris County, New Jersey. He died 4 August 1831, and
is buried in the Vail Cemetery, Parsippany, Morris County, New
Jersey.
10. Josephine RENTON [Elizabeth BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2,
BRADFORD-1], daughter of James RENTON and Eliza BRADFORD, was
born ca 1828 in Morris County, New Jersey. By 1840, she had moved
with her parents to Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, and was
still in their household there in August 1850 [2]. Probably she
married after that date, but I haven't been able to identify her
later.
11. James Leander RENTON [Elizabeth BRADFORD-3, William
BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], son of James RENTON and Eliza BRADFORD,
was born 1 June 1831 in Morris County, New Jersey. He died there
12 March 1834, and was buried in the Vail Cemetery, Parsippany,
Morris County, New Jersey.
12. Orleanna R. RENTON [Elizabeth BRADFORD-3, William
BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], daughter of James RENTON and Eliza BRADFORD,
was born ca 1839 in New Jersey, either in Morris County or in
Newark, Essex County. "Anna" was living with her parents
in Newark in August 1850 [2]. Her father died in the early 1850s,
and she moved with her mother, brother, and BRADFORD grandparents
to Clark County, Missouri. Her aunt, Sarah Theresa (BRADFORD)
CRANE was living there with her family [3]. About 1859, she married
Francis "Frank" BARNES. Frank was born in New York ca
1834; his father was reportedly born in Connecticut, and his mother
in Massachusetts, but I haven't been able to identify them.
Frank and Anna left Missouri in the early 1860s, almost certainly
in the company of Frank's brother, David BARNES, and his wife
Angelina CRANE, who was Anna's cousin. They lived in Wisconsin
from at least 1864 to 1868 (children born there), probably at
Wauwautosa, Milwaukee County, where David and Angelina settled
[34]. By August 1870 they had moved to Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pennsylvania, where they farmed [14]. By June 1880 they
had moved again, and were living at Kearney, Buffalo County, Nebraska,
where they once again farmed [15].
Frank Barnes died at Kearney, and was buried in the Kearney Cemetery
29 September 1881 [35]. So far, I've been unable to locate Anna
after 1881.
Francis BARNES and Orleanna
RENTON had three children:
31. Frank R. BARNES (June 1860- )
32. Charles C. BARNES (ca 1864-10 July 1880)
33. George BARNES (ca 1867- )
13. James N. RENTON [Elizabeth
BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], son of James RENTON
and Eliza BRADFORD, was born in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey,
in April 1843. He was living with his parents in Newark in August
1850 [2]. His father died in the early 1850s, and he moved with
his mother, sister, and BRADFORD grandparents to Clark County,
Missouri. His aunt, Sarah Theresa (BRADFORD) CRANE was living
there with her family [3]. When his sister, Orleanna (RENTON)
BARNES moved with her family to Wisconsin in the early 1860s,
James and his mother moved also. They lived in Wisconsin (probably
Milwaukee County) from at least 1864 to 1868, then moved to Philadelphia,
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania [14]. James' mother and sister
moved from Pennsylvania by 1880, but James remained there, and
was working as a machinest in June 1880 [36].
James Renton married before June 1880 Margaret S. ______. Margaret,
whose father was reportedly born in Germany and mother in Tennessee,
was born in New Jersey ca 1838 [36]. She died before June 1900,
probably in Philadelphia County, where James was still living
in 1900 [37]. I have found no record of James after 1900, and
I don't know of any children by this marriage.
14. Angelina CRANE
[Theresa BRADFORD-3,
William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1] was born in September 1833 in
Newark, Essex County, New Jersey [34]. She moved with her family
from Newark to Monongalia County, (West) Virginia, in early 1850
[1, 17] to Warren, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, ca 1854 [1];
and late in 1856 or early in 1857, to Clark County, Missouri.
About 1859, probably in Clark County, she married David BARNES
[38]. David was born in New York ca 1831; his father was reportedly
born in Connecticut, and his mother in Massachusetts, but I haven't
yet identified them [3].
Soon after their marriage, Angelina and David moved to Wauwautosa,
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, where they farmed and lived for the
rest of their lives [39, 40]. David died between 1880 and 1900,
but I haven't found a death record for him yet. Angelina died
5 August 1902 [41].
David and Angelina (CRANE) BARNES had four children:
34. Cora BARNES (ca 1862-)
35. Julia Adelaide BARNES (ca 1864 - 8 October 1889)
36. Orleanna BARNES (ca 1873-)
37. Charles BARNES (ca 1875-)
15. William Bradford
CRANE [Theresa
BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1] was born 26 April
1835 in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey. He lived with his family
in Newark until late 1849 or early 1850 when they moved to near
Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia (now West Virginia) [1,
17]. In 1854 they moved again to Warren, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
[1, 42].
I haven't been able to determine what schooling William had, but
assume he attended primary schools in Newark. His brother James
Elbert CRANE attended the "Morgantown Academy" [1] (probably
the Monongalia Academy, as no record exists of a "Morgantown
Academy"), and William may have attended there, also. His
later occupations show a strong understanding and interest in
hardware and the mechanics of mine operations, so he probably
worked with his father manufacturing engine parts and constructing
a steel rolling mill. In 1854 he was working for Alexander McCLURE
who owned a timber company and had a sawmill and box building
company [43, 44].
William left Pennsylvania for Missouri in late 1854 [43]. He appears
to have settled first at Canton, Lewis County, Missouri, where
he married Mary Louisa WILLIAMS ca 1857. Mary, the daughter of
Dr. James Thomas WILLIAMS and Louisa CECIL, was born in Lewis
County in 1841 [45]. William and Mary lived in Canton in 1857
and 1858, where William had a wagon and carriage shop and also
a mercantile store with Joseph W. HOKE [46, 47]. They apparently
lived for a year or less near Independence, Missouri, where William
ran a ferry across the Missouri River [48]. By July 1860 they
were living in St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri, where William
had a hardware and mercantile store [49, 50]. He was appointed
manager of the Pilot Knob Iron Company (Iron County, Missouri)
in November 1860, a position he held until the Civil War forced
closure of the plant in early 1862. As he was leaving Pilot Knob
with his family to visit friends and family in Canton, Missouri,
Mary became ill and died 9 February 1862. Her body was taken to
Canton, where she was buried in the Forest Grove Cemetery [51].
Being deeply in debt
and with few prospects for making money in War-depressed Missouri,
William decided to leave his infant daughter with her maternal
grandparents, and go West to the mining areas of Montana. He and
his brother Lewis CRANE took the steamer "Emilie" up
the Missouri River to Fort Benton, Montana. They visited the Montana
mines briefly, but the areas didn't look promising to them, so
they traveled on to Oregon, arriving in Salem in August 1862 [51,
52]. William immediately found a job with the Oregon Steam Navigation
Company (OSNC), working on their steamboats on the Columbia River.
In the next eight years, he worked the mining camps of eastern
Oregon, western Idaho, and eastern Nevada, partly on assignment
from the directors of OSNC and partly on his own. With his brother
Lewis and his uncle Charles H. CRANE, he developed a farm near
Boise, Ada County, Idaho, from which they supplied the mining
camps with fruits and vegetables.
On 8 December 1870 in Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, William
B. CRANE married Alice Jane McCULLY [53, 54]. Alice, twin sister
of Frances Ann McCULLY was born 21 August 1851 in New London,
Henry County, Iowa, daughter of Asa Alfred McCULLY and Hannah
Keziah WATERS. Frances soon died. In March 1852, Alice left New
London with her parents and other relatives, and crossed the plains
to Oregon, arriving in August 1852 [55]. The family lived first
in Harrisburg, Linn County, Oregon, before moving to Salem, Marion
County, Oregon in late 1863 or early 1864. The family moved again
in late 1870 to Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, but returned
to Salem the following year. Alice Jane presumably attended public
schools in Harrisburg and Salem, and is said to have graduated
from St. Mary's Academy in Portland, reportedly the only school
in the Northwest at that time where a girl could study music [54,
56].
At the time of his marriage to Alice Jane McCULLY, most of William
B. CRANE's time was being spent in the White Pine mining district
of eastern Nevada, where he mined, ran a lumber mill, and sold
life insurance to the miners [57].
For the next eight years following their marriage, he was on the
road almost full- time, developing mines and selling life insurance.
(As we've pieced together his schedule, it has become clear that,
in their eight and one-quarter years of marriage, he and Alice
probably lived together less than one year!) In 1871 and 1872,
much of his work was in Baker County, Oregon; Alice lived for
awhile in Portland, then with her parents in Salem, Oregon. From
1873 through 1877, he spent much of his time at Virginia City,
Storey County, Nevada; Alice lived in Oakland, Alameda County,
California, usually with CRANE relatives, while William had a
house built for them in Virginia City. They apparently moved into
the new house some time in 1874, only to see it burn to the ground
in the great Virginia City fire on 26 October 1875 [58, 59]. Alice
lived part-time at Virginia City after that, but was more frequently
in Oakland or with her parents in Oregon.
By early 1878 they had a house of their own in Oakland, but William
was mostly away, superintending the Extra Mining Company, and
overseeing the development of the Bully Hill copper mine at Copper
City, Shasta County, California. He was at Copper City in February
1879 when he became ill. He returned to Oakland, then in April
decided to make a trip to Oregon to visit with Alice's family.
He died 20 April 1879 at the McCULLY home in Salem. He was buried
in the Pioneer Cemetery in Salem [60].
After William CRANE's death, Alice brought her children to Oregon,
living for awhile with her family in Salem, then with her daughter,
Ethel Linnie (CRANE) DABNEY and family in Portland. On trips to
Massachusetts to visit with her son and daughter-in-law, Clarence
and Stella (HOWARD) CRANE, she met Stella's parents, Daniel and
Georgianna (WEATHERBEE) HOWARD. After Georgianna died, Allie and
Daniel married 9 April 1903. She returned to Oregon to settle
her affairs, but found her children there adamant against the
marriage. She divorced without returning to Massachusetts.
Allie continued to live with the DABNEYs, in Portland until 1926,
then in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County, California. She died
in Beverly Hills 8 December 1932. Her body was returned to Oregon,
where she was buried in the Salem Pioneer Cemetery [56].
William Bradford CRANE had two daughters with Mary Louise WILLIAMS:
38. Sue CRANE (ca 1859
-1861)
39. Mary Louise CRANE (5 August 1861 - 28 September 1949)
William Bradford CRANE and Alice Jane McCULLY had three children:
40. Clarence CRANE (28 November 1871 - 13 April 1942)
41. Ethel Linnie CRANE (29 May 1874 - 5 May 1966)
42. William Bradford CRANE Jr. (29 June 1879 - 25 June 1967)
16. James Elbert
CRANE [Theresa
BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1] was born 18 March
1837 in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey. He lived with his family
in Newark, attending public school there, until late 1849 or early
1850 when they moved to near Morgantown, Monongalia County, Virginia
(now West Virginia) [1, 17]. He attended "Morgantown Academy"
(probably Monongalia Academy) [1, 61] for a year or two, then
entered Thompson Academy in Thompson, Wyndham County, Connecticut
[134]. After graduating ca 1855, he taught school in Windham County,
but then joined his parents in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania,
where he worked with his father building a rolling mill (for the
production of sheet and bar metal) [1]. Late in 1856 or early
in 1857, he moved with the family west to Clark County, Missouri,
where in 1857 his father bought 1,200 acres of land, intending
a major farming operation. James worked with him for two or three
years, but the venture failed, and James acquired 100 acres of
land of his own in nearby Lewis County, Missouri [1].
In late August or early September 1860, he married Ruth Jane GOODWIN
[63]. Ruth was born 13 October 1840 in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
[64], the daughter of Dr. James E. GOODWIN and Ruth Jane NEGLEY.
Ruth lived in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, until ca 1855, when
her family moved to Clark County, Missouri [65, 66, 67].
Ruth and James farmed in Lewis County, Missouri, until the outbreak
of the Civil War. James then enlisted, serving in the Union Army
for four years. He was an Army recruiter at various locations
in Missouri (and nearby states?) [1, 68]. Ruth probably lived
part of this time with her parents in Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa,
as their first child was born in Iowa in August 1862, and Ruth
died of typhoid fever (which also killed her father) in Keokuk
25 November 1864 [64, 73]. She is buried in the Oakland Cemetery
in Keokuk, beside her father, mother and brother.
After the War, and after Ruth's death, James began work as a civil
engineer, first working on the construction of the Missouri, Iowa
& Nebraska Railroad (June 1866-June 1867). He then was assistant
engineer on the Missouri & Mississippi Railroad (June 1867-July
1872), with headquarters at Macon City, Macon County, Missouri
[1]. While employed by the Missouri & Mississippi Railroad,
he married 18 March 1869 Ariel NORRIS [69]. Ariel, or "Allie,"
the daughter of Elijah NORRIS and Martha BARNETT, was born ca
1845 in Baltimore County, Maryland, but had moved with her parents
to Clark County, Missouri, by October 1850 [70].
James and Ariel were living in Fayette, Howard County, Missouri,
in July 1870 [71], while still employed on the Missouri &
Mississippi Railroad. It is possible they moved after July 1872
when James was hired as assistant engineer of the Clarksville
& Western Railroad [1]. They may have moved again in 1873
when James became resident engineer of the Mississippi Valley
& Western Railroad, with headquarters at Hannibal, Marion
County, Missouri [1]. When that railroad failed in June 1874,
they moved to Oakland, Alameda County, California, where James
continued his career with the Central Pacific Railroad, working
as a clerk and bookkeeper [1, 144]. He also was elected in November
1890 as Alameda County Clerk, a post he held for two years [1].
James and Ariel presumably both died in Oakland, Ariel between
1880 and 1910, and James between 1910 and 1920. I haven't yet
found death dates or burial locations for either.
James E. CRANE and Ruth Jane GOODWIN had two children:
43. Emma CRANE (August 1862-)
44. George CRANE (14 September1864 - 12 June 1942)
James E. CRANE and Ariel
NORRIS had two children:
45. Julia Irene CRANE (1 April 1871 -10 January1940)
46. Arthur CRANE (June 1878-)
17. Evanna CRANE [Theresa BRADFORD-3, William
BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1] was born January 1841 in Newark, Essex
County, New Jersey. She moved with her family from Newark to Monongalia
County, (West) Virginia, in early 1850 [1, 17]; to Warren, Allegheny
County, Pennsylvania, ca 1854 [1]; and late in 1856 or early in
1857, to Clark County, Missouri. There, on 17 May 1860, she married
Thomas SCHOONOVER [74]. Thomas, (probably) the son of Gilbert
SCHOONOVER and Mary Jane ____, was born in (Tioga County?) New
York in May 1836 [75, 76, 77]. He probably lived in New York until
the late 1850s, when he moved to Missouri. He was a carpenter,
a career he pursued his whole adult life.
Evanna and Thomas lived near her parents at Waterloo, Clark County,
Missouri, for a year or two after their marriage, but by November
1864 had moved to Alexandria, Clark County, Missouri [73].Thomas
continued to own land at Waterloo, which he rented to his father-in-law.
The Schoonovers were still in Alexandria in August 1870 [78],
and still in Missouri (probably Alexandria) in 1874 when their
youngest child was born. By 1880, they were living in Oakland,
Alameda County, California [79], probably having moved there at
the same time (ca 1874) as Evanna's parents and siblings.
The Schoonovers were probably living part time at Copper City,
Shasta County, California, as early as 1878. (Thomas registered
to vote at Copper City in 1879 [89].) By 1881, they appear to
have been living in that area yearlong [80], and were still there
in June 1900 [77]. Thomas worked as a carpenter most of his life,
but in 1896 and 1898 he was identified as a bridge watchman [89,
90]. Thomas died 16 October 1905, probably at Mable, Shasta County,
California, or in one of the nearby communities [81]. In April
1910 a widowed Evanna SCHOONOVER was living with the family of
her daughter Fannie (SCHOONOVER) ARNOLD in Santa Rosa, Sonoma
County, California [82]. By 1920, she had moved with the Arnolds
to Berkeley, Alameda County, California [83], where she was still
living in April 1930, age 89 [84]. She died 28 January 1932. I
don't know where she was buried.
Thomas SCHOONOVER and Evanna CRANE had five children:
47. George Bradford SCHOONOVER (3 June 1861-16 January 1944)
48. Charles Edward SCHOONOVER (January 1865- 12 May 1935)
49. Frances Josephine SCHOONOVER (2 November 1868-16 September
1958)
50. James William SCHOONOVER (6 September 1871- 6 November 1957)
51. Alice E. SCHOONOVER (September 1873-)
18. Julia Ann CRANE [Theresa BRADFORD-3, William
BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1] was born November 1842 in Newark, Essex
County, New Jersey. She moved with her family from Newark to Monongalia
County, (West) Virginia, in early 1850 [1, 17]; to Warren, Allegheny
County, Pennsylvania, ca 1854 [1]; and late in 1856 or early in
1857, to Clark County, Missouri. She never married, and continued
to live in her parents' household in Missouri until ca 1874, they
moved to Oakland, Alameda County, California. She lived the rest
of her life with various of her siblings in Oakland, and died
sometime after April 1910 [157]. I haven't found a death date
or burial location for her, yet.
19. Lewis C. CRANE [Theresa BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2,
BRADFORD-1] was born ca 1845 in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey.
He moved with his family from Newark to Monongalia County, (West)
Virginia, in early 1850 [1, 17]; to Warren, Allegheny County,
Pennsylvania, ca 1854 [1]; and late in 1856 or early in 1857,
to Clark County, Missouri. When his older brother, William Bradford
CRANE, left Missouri for Oregon in 1862, Lewis went with him.
They took the steamer "Emilie" up the Missouri River
to Fort Benton, Montana; visited the Montana mines briefly; then
traveled on to Oregon, arriving in Salem in August 1862 [51, 52].
William immediately found work in Oregon, and Lewis traveled to
San Francisco, California, where his uncle Charles H. CRANE was
living. He rejoined his brother by March 1864, in Owyhee County,
Idaho Territory, where William was involved in silver and gold
mining [86, 87]. Uncle Charles brought his family to Idaho Territory
at the same time, and he with his nephews William B. CRANE, Charles
W. CRANE and Lewis CRANE claimed and developed a farm and ranch
at Boise, Ada County, that supplied meat, fresh fruit and fresh
vegetables to Boise and the surrounding mining communities [88,
91, 92].
Some time in 1867, Lewis was thrown from a horse, suffering head
injuries that reportedly affected his behavior after that, causing
him to show "frequent signs of insanity.". This may
have been a partial cause of a fight between Lewis and another
farmhand on 25 September 1868, which resulted in Lewis fatally
stabbing his uncle Charles H. CRANE, when Charles tried to intervene.
Lewis was arrested, and held for medical examination. Witnesses
reported that he was "seemingly unconscious of the deed that
he had committed [94]. I have been unable to find any law enforcement
or court reports following the event, and suspect that Lewis was
judged insane. The only record I have found for him after the
murder was in May 1872, when his brother William reported that
Lewis had died "of consumption" in California [93].
He died unmarried, and I haven't found a death date or burial
location.
20. Frederick CRANE [Theresa BRADFORD-3, William
BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1] was born ca 1847 in Newark, Essex County,
New Jersey. He moved with his family from Newark to Monongalia
County, (West) Virginia, in early 1850 [1, 17]; to Warren, Allegheny
County, Pennsylvania, ca 1854 [1]; and late in 1856 or early in
1857, to Clark County, Missouri. He was with his parents at Waterloo,
Clark County, Missouri in June 1860 [3], and August 1870 [164].
In the 1870 census, he was listed as belonging to the U. S. Cavalry,
which suggests he served during the Civil War, and stayed enlisted
afterwards. However, I haven't yet found any military records
for him.
I have found no certain records of Frederick CRANE after August
1870. However, an 1892 biographical sketch of his brother, James
Elbert CRANE, included the information that Frederick was alive
in California, and unmarried.
21. Charles Wilson CRANE [Theresa BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2,
BRADFORD-1] was born 3 December 1848 in Newark, Essex County,
New Jersey [165]. Almost immediately, he moved with his family
from Newark to Monongalia County, (West) Virginia, in early 1850
[1, 17]; to Warren, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, ca 1854 [1];
and late in 1856 or early in 1857, to Clark County, Missouri.
He was with his parents at Waterloo, Clark County, Missouri in
June 1860 [3]. About 1867, he traveled west to Idaho Territory,
joining his brother William B. CRANE at Silver City, Owyhee County.
In August 1867 he took over the operation of his brother's general
store and market in Silver City [97]. He closed down the general
store portion of the business by August 1868 [167], but continued
to live in town and sell fruits and vegetables until some time
in March 1869 [99]. Produce came partly from the Crane farm at
Boise, Idaho, and part of it was brought by wagon from California.
By October 1870, Charles had moved to Boise and was managing the
Crane farm [100]. He continued to supply produce to the Owyhee
mining camps until at least July 1871 [101]. The Boise Valley
farm was sold in 1873 [102], and about that time Charles moved
to California. He lived in Oakland, Alameda County, and worked
in San Francisco, describing himself at various times as advertising
agent, news agent, purchasing agent, and mining secretary [103].
He worked closely with his brother William on mining activities,
and represented people and businesses as far distant from San
Francisco as Virginia City, Nevada [104].
About 1879, Charles married (in Oakland?) Sarah Elizabeth MERRITT.
"Libbie," as she was called, was born May 1849 in New
York State, of parents born in New York [79]. So far, I haven't
been able to identify her parents or specifically where she was
born. She and Charles were married only a decade when he died
of consumption 13 March 1890 in Oakland [96]. I haven't located
his burial site.
Sarah did not re-marry. She lived with their children in Oakland
until at least 1900 [79]. I have been unable to locate her from
1900 until April 1930, when she was living with her son, Raymond
E. CRANE, and his family at Applewold, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania
[105]. Raymond lived in Armstrong County until at least 1945,
so it is likely that Sarah died there and is buried there.
Charles and Sarah had three children:
52. Raymond Elmer CRANE (11 August 1881-)
33. Linnie CRANE (ca 1883- )
54. Miriam Merritt CRANE (December 1885 -)
22. Josephine CRANE [Theresa BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2,
BRADFORD-1] was born May 1851 near Morgantown, Monongalia County,
West Virginia. She moved with her family to Warren, Allegheny
County, Pennsylvania, ca 1854 [1]; and late in 1856 or early in
1857, to Clark County, Missouri. She continued to live in her
parents' household in Missouri until ca 1874, when the family
moved to Oakland, Alameda County, California. There, in 1879,
she married Joseph Solomon BURPEE.
Joseph BURPEE was born in Ohio in October 1832 [180]. I haven't
determined for certain his birth location, or his parents' names.
He may have been in Michigan in 1849, when a Joseph S. BURPEE
claimed 80 acres of land there, and he reportedly was in California
ca 1849 [106]. By 1854 he was in Jacksonville, Jackson County,
Oregon [107]. He was a carpenter and cabinet maker, and had a
furniture store in Jacksonville with David LINN. About 1859, he
married Irene Jane SPICER, probably in Jacksonville.
Irene SPICER, the daughter of Isaac G. and Cornelia (VANDERCOOK?)
SPICER, was born ca 1842 in Ohio, probably in Erie County where
she was living with her family in 1850 [108, 112]. She apparently
came to Oregon Territory some time in the late 1850s with her
brothers Lester and Charles SPICER, and were living in Jacksonville
at the time of her marriage to Joseph BURPEE [113].
Joseph and Irene lived in Jacksonville until at least 1863 [107],
but by June 1870 were in Springfield, Greene County, Missouri,
where Joseph was working as a cabinet maker [109]. In 1873, they
moved to Oakland, Alameda County, California, where Joseph worked
as a building contractor until his retirement in 1906 [114]. Irene
died in Oakland in 1878 (9 August?) [110]. A year later (14 August
1879?), Joseph BURPEE and Josephine CRANE were married in Oakland.
Joseph died in Oakland 21 April 1916. After his death, Josephine
lived with the family of their daughter, Florence (BURPEE) MORRISH,
in Berkeley, Alameda County, California [83, 84]. She died 21
October 1931.
Joseph S. BURPEE and Irene J. SPICER reportedly had three children:
55. Lester G. BURPEE (4 September 1860 - 29 October 1915)
56. Cora J. BURPEE (29 May 1863 - 19 November 1865)
57. Charles S. BURPEE (24 December 1864 - 8 August 1867)
Joseph S. BURPEE and Josephine CRANE had two children:
58. Walter J. BURPEE (13 June 1880 - 18 December 1968)
59. Florence J. BURPEE (23 June 1883 - 2 January 1967)
23. Alice CRANE [Theresa BRADFORD-3, William
BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1]was born 1 October 1854 at Warren, Allegheny
County, Pennsylvania. . Late in 1856 or early in 1857, she moved
with her family to Clark County, Missouri. She continued to live
in her parents' household in Missouri until ca 1874, when the
family moved to Oakland, Alameda County, California. She married
ca 1875 Cary McClelland FULTON, probably in Oakland.
Cary FULTON, the son of Samuel FULTON and Louellen McCLELLAND,
was born 16 April 1843, probably in Richland County, Ohio. He
moved with his parents to Clarksville, Greene County ca 1848,
and worked on his father's farm until 4 September 1862 [115, 116,
117]. He then enlisted as a corporal in Company A, 140th Pennsylvania
Infantry, and served in the Union Army until mustered out at Washington,
D. C. on 31 May 1865 [118]. After his military service, he returned
to the Greene County farm until some time after 1870 [119]. I
haven't been able to determine when he moved to California.
The Fultons lived in Oakland, and Cary was employed first "in
mining" [79] and later as a clerk for the Southern Pacific
Railroad [111]. He died in Oakland 21 January 1916. Alice lived
in Oakland with her daughter Eva FULTON at least until 1920 [189],
later moving in with the family of her other daughter Edith (FULTON)
DODGE in nearby Piedmont, Alameda County [121]. Alice died 12
October 1949.
Alice CRANE and Cary FULTON had two children:
60. Edith FULTON (23 September 1877 - 10 October 1961)
61. Eva Alberta FULTON (22 October 1881 - 26 June 1955)
24. George Ward BRADFORD
[John BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], son of John
H. BRADFORD and Caroline WARD, was born 23 May 1846, in Newark,
Essex County, New Jersey. His family lived at Newark until early
in 1850, then moved with the family of his aunt, Sarah Theresa
(BRADFORD) CRANE, to near Morgantown, Monongalia County, (now,
West) Virginia [17]. They lived in West Virginia only a year or
so, then moved west. They were in Nebraska Territory in June 1852
(brother born) and in California by October 1854 (sister born).
They were living at Cascade City, Butte County, California, in
June 1860, where George's father was mining [24]. They had moved
south to Solano County, California, by August 1870, and farmed
there [25]. By 1875 they were at Orland, Colusa County, California,
where George married Ellen MARTIN [122].
Ellen, the daughter of William D. MARTIN and Minerva LOYD, was
born ca 1857 in Arkansas. Her family had moved to Kimshew, Butte
County, California, by July 1860. Apparently, both parents died
before August 1870, and Ellen and her siblings moved to be with
relatives at Princeton, Colusa County, California [122].
George and Ellen lived at Orland, Colusa County, California, where
they were living in June 1880, with George employed as a teamster
[26]. Sometime between 1880 and 1900, they divorced. I have not
been able to trace Ellen after 1880 [122]. In June 1900, George
was at Arbuckle, Colusa County, California, working on the farm
of William and Anna Moore [28]. He had moved to Upper Lake, Lake
County, California, by ca 1903, where he married 2nd Sarah Emily
(RANTZ) ADAMS, widow of Lorenzo T. ADAMS, who died in Lake County
January 1900.
Sarah, the daughter of Daniel RANTZ and Mary J. KIPP, was born
in December 1849 in Pleasant Township, Wabash County, Indiana
[123]. She married 1st Lorenzo T. ADAMS ca 1867, and they lived
in Wisconsin before moving to El Dorado County, California, by
1870 [124]. They moved to Lake County, California, sometime between
1880 and Lorenzo'd death in January 1900 [125]. They had 10 children,
6 of who were alive in June 1900 [126].
George and Sarah were living in Upper Lake, Lake County, in May
1910 [127]. Sarah died 15 June 1910, and before January 1920,
George married 3rd Effie Kate (McMATH) ALLEN [128]. Effie, daughter
of Cyrus McMATH and Melissa HAZEN, was born 17 March 1859 probably
in Marysville, Yuba County, California, where her family was living
in July 1860 [129, 130]. She married Spencer ALLEN, son of John
ALLEN and Polly WILLIAMS, ca 1878, probably in Lake County. They
were living in Cloverdale, Sonoma County, California, in June
1880, but by June 1900 were again living in Lake County [126,
131]. Spencer died there 25 December 1907 and is buried at the
Upper Lake Cemetery [129]. John and Effie had 8 children, 7 of
them alive in April 1910.
George and Effie lived at Upper Lake until Effie died 10 February
1926. She was buried in the Upper Lake Cemetery [129]. In April
1930 census, George was recorded twice in Stanislaus County, California,
in the homes of his step-sons Ernest G. ALLEN (Patterson, California)
and Guy H. ALLEN (Modesto, California). George reportedly died
13 August 1940 at Sacramento, Sacramento County, California, but
I have not yet confirmed that.
George BRADFORD and
Ellen MARTIN had three children:
62. Louis Martin BRADFORD (8 November 1875-26 December 1949)
63. John David BRADFORD (20 January 1877-8 January 1955)
64. Delbert Lorenzo BRADFORD (12 March 1879-14 February 1941)
NOTE: In George Bradford's
household in May 1910, there was an Irene BRADFORD, adopted daughter.
She was born in California ca 1901, of parents born in Missouri.
I have found no additional information about her.
25. Caroline Elizabeth
BRADFORD
[John BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1] was born 10
March 1850 in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey. Her family lived
at Newark until early in 1850, then moved with the family of his
aunt, Sarah Theresa (BRADFORD) CRANE, to near Morgantown, Monongalia
County, (now, West) Virginia [17]. They lived in West Virginia
only a year or so, then moved west. They were in Nebraska Territory
in June 1852 (brother born) and in California by October 1854
(sister born). They were living at Cascade City, Butte County,
California, in June 1860, where George's father was mining [24].
They had moved south to the Vacaville area, Solano County, California,
before 1870 [25], where she undoubtedly met Charles Benjamin HIGH,
who she married at Capay, Yolo County, California, on 22 February
1870 [132].
Charles HIGH, the son of Govan HIGH and Mary Jane LINCOLN, was
born 8 August 1846 near Litchfield, Montgomery or Macoupin county,
Illinois, Except from 1857 to 1860, when his family lived in Missouri,
he spent his childhood near Litchfield. From 11 July 1862 to 29
October 1862, he served in the Union Army in Company G, 71st Illinois
Infantry, being detailed to Kentucky and Tennessee [132, 133].
In 1863, the High family went by wagon train to California, settling
at Vacaville, Solano County. Charles once again enlisted, serving
along the California-Arizona border in Company F, 7th California
Infantry, from 29 November 1864 to 29 November 1865 [132, 133].
By 1870, the High family had relocated from Vacaville to the Capay
area of Yolo County, California [134], where newly-married Caroline
and Charles were living in August 1870 [135]. They lived in the
Capay-Dunnigan area until 1873, then moved to Princeton, Colusa
County, where they lived until about 1877 [dates of birth of children].
By June 1880, Charles and Caroline were living in Ashland, Jackson
County, Oregon, along with Charles' parents and most of his siblings
[136]. Charles' parents lived at Ashland until ca 1904, but sometime
between 1881 and 1900, Charles and Caroline had relocated to the
Dorris area, Siskiyou County, California. They lived in the area
until sometime in the 1920s [137, 138, 139]. They eventually moved
to Yreka, Siskiyou County, California, to live with the family
of their daughter Daisy [HIGH] BRAY [140]. Caroline reportedly
died there 9 April 1933, and Charles on 8 March 1940 [132].
Charles HIGH and Caroline BRADFORD had six children:
65. Marion Govan HIGH (13 February 1871-20 December 1952)
66. May Caroline HIGH (17 March 1873-1880)
67. Lewis Hamilton HIGH (25 March 1874-22 June 1959)
68. Charles Francis HIGH (7 June 1875- )
69. Jesse Leroy HIGH (27 May 1877-14 January 1937)
70. Daisy Annie HIGH (29 November 1881- )
26. Lewis Renton
BRADFORD
[John BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1] was born 3 June
1852
in Nebraska Territory, as his family was traveling west to California.
They were in California by October 1854 (sister born), and were
living at Cascade City, Butte County, California in June 1860
[24]. They moved south to the Vacaville area, Solano County, California,
before 1870 [25]. I have been unable to trace him from 1870 until
ca 1898, when he married Dora A. _____, probably in San Diego
County, California [141].
Dora was born December 1855 in Illinois; her father reportedly
was born in Illinois, and her mother in Ohio. This was apparently
her second marriage, and she may have had one child who had died
by 1900 [141, 142].
Lewis and Dora were in Encinitas, San Diego County, California
in June 1900, working as servants in the home of L. and Mary McKnight
[141]. By1910 they were living in Miramonte, Los Angeles County,
California, with Lewis employed as a house carpenter [142]. They
were still in Miramonte in 1920, where Lewis was employed as a
school janitor [143]. Dora died before April 1930, at which time
Lewis was living at El Cajon, San Diego County, California [144].
He died in San Diego County 29 April 1941 [145].
Lewis and Dora BRADFORD did not have any children.
27. Josephine Harrison
BRADFORD
[John BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1] was reportedly
[146] born 29 October 1854
in California, possibly Butte County. She was living with her
parents at Cascade City, Butte County, in June 1860, age 5 [24],
and had moved with them to Vallejo, Solano County, California,
before August 1870 [25]. I haven't found any positive records
of her after 1870, but she reportedly married Valette MACKIN in
March 1871, and died 22 March 1877 [146].
28. Walter Cobb BRADFORD
[John BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1] was born 15
May 1856 in California, probably at Cascade City, Butte County,
where his family was living June 1860 [24]. He had moved with
his family to Vacaville, Solano County, California, before August
1870 [25], and was in Orland, Colusa County, California in June
1880, working as a carpenter on the farm of Joseph Bondurant [26].
He was in Arbuckle, Colusa County, California, in June 1900 [28]
and in Imperial Beach, San Diego County, California in December
1909 [29].
He was in San Diego, San Diego County, California, in January
1920 [147]. I can't locate him after 1920, and I have found an
undocumented death date of 19 July 1926, location unknown.
Walter BRADFORD did not marry.
29. Jessie Eliza
BRADFORD
[John BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1] was born 14
November 1860
at Cascade City, Butte County, California [1, 24]. She moved with
her family to Vacaville, Solano County, California, before August
1870 [25]. Her family had moved to Orland, Colusa County, by June
1880; she was not enumerated in the census there, but was probably
the "J. BRADFORD" serving as a cook on the GREYES farm
in nearby Tehama County [148]. About 1882, she married Wallace
BASHORE, probably at Orland, California.
Wallace BASHORE, son of Connell B. BASHORE and (probably) Susannah
WALLACE, was born ca 1857 in Missouri, probably at Palmyra, Marion
County [149]. His father reportedly died 7 July 1862 (undocumented
internet source), and I haven't located his mother or sister after
that date. Wallace may have been with his uncle Forman BASHORE
at Spring Valley, Colusa County, California, in June 1870; if
so, the census taker got Wallace's age wrong by about 8 years
[150]. By June 1880 he was at Orland, Colusa County, California,
working as a laborer for Thomas Criston [26].
I don't know how many years the Bashores stayed in Colusa County.
By June 1900 they were at Oceanside, San Diego County, California
[151], and by December 1909 they were living in San Diego, where
Wallace was a real estate salesman [29, 152]. They apparently
lived in San Diego the rest of their lives [147, 153]. Jessie
died there 2 January 1943; Wallace may have died before 1940,
as he is not included in the California State death index, which
began recording in 1940 [145].
Wallace BASHORE and
Jessie BRADFORD had five children:
71. BASHORE child (ca 1884-before 1900)
72. Emily BASHORE (ca 1887- )
73. Ethel A. BASHORE (ca 1889- )
74. Connell Bert BASHORE (ca 1889-7 February 1910)
75. George Arthur BASHORE (3 January 1897-7 April 1978)
30. William David
BRADFORD
[John BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1] was born 8 October
1864, at Cascade City, Butte County, California. Before 1870,
he had moved with his family to Vacaville, Solano County, California
[25], and by June 1880 was with them at Orland, Colusa County,
California [26]. He apparently lived in Colusa County the next
20 years, marrying there ca 1900 Emma WOHLFROM [28].
Emma, the daughter of Joseph WOHLFROM and Margaret STEWART [156],
was born October 1871 in California, possibly at Spring Valley,
Colusa County. She was living with her family in Spring Valley
in June 1880 [154]; by June 1900 they were living in College City,
Colusa County, California [155].
William and Emma lived at Arbuckle, where William was a blacksmith
[28, 157]. Emma died there in 1912. She was buried in the IOOF
cemetery at Arbuckle. By 1918 he had married 2nd Maria Henrietta
KRAFT, whose family lived next to his in Arbuckle [157, 158. Maria
(Mary, in some censuses), daughter of Julius KRAFT and Augusta
KLOEPPEL, was born in California (probably Colusa County) 30 January
1892 [145].
William and Maria lived and farmed at Arbuckle at least until
1940 [158, 242], and probably until William died there 27 January
1944. Maria lived to 10 September 1970, dying in San Jose, Santa
Clara County, California [145]. She probably went there to live
with her son Lowell Bradford after William's death. Both William
and Maria are buried in the IOOF cemetery at Arbuckle.
William BRADFORD and
Emma WOHLFROM had three children:
76. Wilmer Wohlfrom BRADFORD (1 December 1900-13 December 2003)
77. Thelma BRADFORD (9 October 1906-25 February 1989)
78. Francis H. BRADFORD (7 November 1908-8 November 2005)
William BRADFORD and
Maria KRAFT had one child:
79. Lowell William BRADFORD (30 August 1918-12 April 2007)
GENERATION 5
31. Frank R. BARNES [Orleanna RENTON-4, Elizabeth
BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], son of Francis BARNES
and Orleanna RENTON, was born June 1860 in Clark County, Missouri.
Within a few years of his birth, his family left Missouri for
Wisconsin (probably Wauwautosa, Milwaukee County), where they
from at least 1864 to 1868 (brothers born there. By August 1870
they had moved to Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania,
where the family farmed [14]. By June 1880 they had moved again,
and were living at Kearney, Buffalo County, Nebraska, where they
once again farmed [15]. Frank's father died at Kearney in 1881,
the last date I can find for the family for 19 years.
Frank Barnes was at Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, from
at least June 1900 to April 1910. He was unmarried, and worked
as a printer [159, 160]. I have found no records of him after
that date.
32. Charles C. BARNES [Orleanna RENTON-4, Elizabeth
BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], son of Francis BARNES
and Orleanna RENTON, was born ca 1864 in Wisconsin, probably Milwaukee
County. By August 1870 the family had moved to Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pennsylvania, where they farmed [14]. By June 1880 they
had moved again, and were living at Kearney, Buffalo County, Nebraska,
where they once again farmed [15]. Charles died 10 July 1880 (I
don't know the cause), and was buried in the Kearney Cemetery
[35].
33. George BARNES [Orleanna RENTON-4, Elizabeth BRADFORD-3,
William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], son of Francis BARNES and Orleanna
RENTON, was born ca 1867 in Wisconsin, probably Milwaukee County.
By August 1870 the family had moved to Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pennsylvania, where they farmed [14]. By June 1880 they
had moved again, and were living at Kearney, Buffalo County, Nebraska,
where they once again farmed [15]. I haven't found any records
of George after 1880.
34. Cora BARNES [Angelina CRANE-4, Theresa
BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], daughter of David
BARNES and Angelia CRANE, was born ca 1862 at Wauwautosa, Milwaukee
County, Wisconsin. She was alive at least until 1880 at Wauwautosa
[39, 40]. I can find no records of her after that date. Only one
of David and Angelina (CRANE) BARNES' children was alive in June
1900 [37], but I don't know which one. Cora may have died before
1900, or she may have married and not yet identifiable to me.
35. Julia Adelaide BARNES [Angelina CRANE-4, Theresa BRADFORD-3,
William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], daughter of David BARNES and
Angelia CRANE, was born ca 1864 at Wauwautosa, Milwaukee County,
Wisconsin. She died 8 October 1889 [41]. I have no additional
information about her.
36. Orleanna BARNES [Angelina CRANE-4, Theresa BRADFORD-3,
William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], daughter of David BARNES and
Angelia CRANE, was born ca 1873 at Wauwautosa, Milwaukee County,
Wisconsin. She was alive at least until 1880 at Wauwautosa [39,
40]. I have found no additional information on her. Only one of
David and Angelina (CRANE) BARNES' children was alive in June
1900 [37], but I don't know which one. Orleanna may have died
before 1900, or she may have married and not yet identifiable
to me.
37. Charles BARNES [Angelina CRANE-4, Theresa BRADFORD-3,
William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], son of David BARNES and Angelia
CRANE, was born ca 1875 at Wauwautosa, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
He was alive at least until 1880 at Wauwautosa [39, 40]. I have
found no additional information on him. Only one of David and
Angelina (CRANE) BARNES' children was alive in June 1900 [37],
but I don't know which one.
38. Sue CRANE [William B. CRANE-4, Theresa
BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], daughter of William
Bradford CRANE and Mary WILLIAMS, was born ca 1859, likely at
either Independence, Jackson County, or St. Louis, St. Louis County.
She died in 1861 at Pilot Knob, Iron County, Missouri [51].
39. Mary Louise CRANE [William B. CRANE-4, Theresa BRADFORD-3,
William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], daughter of William Bradford
CRANE and Mary WILLIAMS, was born 5 August 1861 at Pilot Knob,
Iron County, Missouri. At the death of her mother, she moved with
her father almost immediately to Canton, Lewis County, Missouri
[51]. When he left for Montana in June 1862, Mary was left in
the care of her maternal grandmother, Louisa (CECIL) (WILLIAMS)
STAPLES, and her mother's sister Ella (WILLIAMS) CLUSKY [161].
Some time after 1870, she began making trips to the West to stay
with her father and step-mother, William B. and Alice Jane (McCULLY)
CRANE. While on the Pacific coast, she lived in San Francisco
and Oakland, California, and Salem, Oregon (and perhaps at some
of his other mining locations), but still spent part of her time
in Missouri until at least 1876. Apparently, she didn't move West
permanently until ca 1877.
On a visit to Salem, Marion County, Oregon ca 1875, she first
met Samuel W. CHURCH, who lived near Mary's grandfather, Asa A.
McCULLY, and whose father was a business associate of her grandfather
[162]. She married him in San Francisco, San Francisco County,
California, 27 March 1881.
Samuel W. CHURCH was born 13 February 1857 at Harrisburg, Linn
County, Oregon. He was the son of Stephen T. CHURCH and Elizabeth
LISTER. His family moved to Salem, Marion County, Oregon before
June 1870 [163, 164]. After their marriage, the couple lived in
Salem until ca 1883, when they moved to Portland, Multnomah County,
Oregon [167]. There he was a partner in a company making woven
wire mattresses, first Church & Durkee, and then Thomas K.
Abbott and Samuel W. Church [165].
Samuel CHURCH died in Portland 26 November 1901, of a rare heart
malfunction. He was buried in the Riverview Cemetery [166]. Mary
continued to live in Portland with their two daughters, finally
dying there 28 September 1949. She was buried at Riverview Cemetery,
as well [167].
Mary CRANE and Samuel CHURCH had three children:
80. CHURCH child (ca 1883- )
81. Ruth M. CHURCH (ca 1885- )
82. Genevieve L. CHURCH (5 April 1886 -1967)
40. Clarence CRANE [William B. CRANE-4, Theresa BRADFORD-3,
William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], son of William Bradford CRANE
and Alice McCULLY, was born 28 November 1871 in Salem, Marion
County, Oregon [168]. He spent most of his childhood in Salem
and in Oakland, Alameda County, California, but also lived at
times in Virginia City, Storey County, Nevada; Copper City, Shasta
County, California; and possibly Baker County, Oregon [130, 131,
132]. His father died in 1879, and by ca 1885 he had moved with
his mother and siblings from Salem to Portland, Multnomah County,
Oregon. He reportedly attended grammar school but not high school,
needing to help support the family by working in a dry goods store
and a men's clothing store.
About 1895, Clarence moved to Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts,
and was accepted into the Boston University School of Medicine.
To pay his way, he sold insurance for Northwestern Mutual Life
Insurance Company, among other jobs. He graduated with his Medical
Doctorate in 1900 [169]. On 18 June 1900 in Boston, he married
another School of Medicine graduate, Stella Spaulding HOWARD.
Stella HOWARD was born 25 August 1874 in Boston, the daughter
of Daniel HOWARD and Georgianna WEATHERBEE. She attended Boston
schools, and in 1894 graduated from the Girls' Latin School (now,
Boston Latin Academy). She attended Dana Hall School, and also
Wellesley College for one year, then enrolled in Boston University
School of Medicine, from which she graduated with her Medical
Doctorate in 1900, in the same class with Clarence CRANE [169].
After their graduation and marriage, Clarence and Stella lived
in Boston, and both practiced medicine there. About 1902, Clarence
was named superintendent of the Burrage Hospital for Crippled
Children, established on Bumpkin Island in Boston Harbor [170].
He also served as first assistant surgeon at Massachusetts Homeopathic
Hospital, was a physiology instructor at Boston University School
of Medicine, and acted as medical examiner for the Boston Mutual
Life Insurance Company [169]. Some time after 1910, the family
bought a farm at Dennisport, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
Stella gave up active medical practice at that time and lived
with the family at the farm, while Clarence maintained his medical
practices in Boston. They later moved to the Howard family farm
at Dover (Pigan Hill, Natick area), Middlesex County, Massachusetts,
where they lived until 1930 [171, 172].
The family left Massachusetts in 1930 and moved to Fernbridge,
Humboldt County, California. There, Clarence practiced medicine
for a few years with Dr. H. W. Comfort, and served as first president
of the Humboldt County Tuberculosis Association. He had retired
from medical practice when he died in Fernbridge 13 April 1942
[173]. Stella continued to live in Fernbridge until 1948, when
she moved to nearby Ferndale, Humboldt County, California, where
she died 18 November 1968 [174]. Both Clarence and Stella are
buried at the Pioneer Cemetery at Salem, Marion County, Oregon.
Clarence CRANE and Stella HOWARD six children:
83. Calista CRANE (28 April 1902 - 16 March 1993)
84. William Bradford CRANE (28 April 1904 - 20 January 1981)
85. Ethel Louise CRANE (ca 1906- )
86. Clarence CRANE Jr. (20 May 1916- 10 May 1997)
87. George Gordon CRANE (1918- )
88. Living CRANE (1919-)
41. Ethel Linnie
CRANE [William
B. CRANE-4, Theresa BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1],
daughter of William Bradford CRANE and Alice McCULLY, was born
29 May 1874 in Salem, Marion County, Oregon. She spent most of
her childhood in Salem and in Oakland, Alameda County, California,
but also lived at times in Virginia City, Storey County, Nevada;
Copper City, Shasta County, California; and possibly Baker County,
Oregon [58, 59, 60]. Her father died in 1879, and by ca 1885 she
had moved with her mother and siblings from Salem to Portland,
Multnomah County, Oregon. In Portland 11 September 1895, she married
Percy Pope DABNEY.
Percy, the son of William Pope DABNEY and Leila MADISON, was born
25 November 1866 at Jefferson (Spencer Township), Powhatan County,
Virginia. He attended public schools in Virginia until he was
sixteen, then was privately tutored in law by his father, county
judge for Powhatan and Cumberland counties. In 1887, he took a
summer course in law at the University of Virginia, and in 1888
was admitted to the Virginia bar. He came west to Oregon in 1890,
and was admitted to the Oregon bar in 1892 [175].
Ethel and Percy lived in Portland, Oregon, for 30 years, where
Percy continued in the legal profession. He was never in general
legal practice, but specialized in land title law, most of the
time with the firm of Wood, Montague, Matthiesson and Rankin [176].
In 1926 the family moved to Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County,
California, where Percy continued in the legal profession. He
died in Beverly Hills 18 March 1935. Some time after that, Ethel
moved to Seattle, Kings County, Washington, to live with the family
of her daughter, Alice M. (DABNEY) MOORES. She died there 15 May
1966. Both were buried at the Pioneer Cemetery in Salem, Marion
County, Oregon.
Ethel CRANE and Percy DABNEY had one child:
89. Alice Madison DABNEY (29 October 1896-10 June 1977)
42. William Bradford
CRANE Jr [William
B. CRANE-4, Theresa BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1],
son of William Bradford CRANE and Alice McCULLY, was born 29 June
1879 at Salem, Marion County, Oregon. His father had died two
months before William was born, and by ca 1885 he had moved with
his mother and siblings from Salem to Portland, Multnomah County,
Oregon. He attended public schools in Portland, then ca 1900 he
went to Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, where he stayed
two years. He returned to Portland in 1902, and established W.
B. Crane and Company, suppliers of equipment for the manufacturing
of carbonated beverages. The company eventually established branch
offices in Seattle, Washington (1922), and in San Francisco and
Los Angeles, California (1926) [177].
In Portland 7 June 1905, William married Lillian LEWIS. Lillian,
the daughter of Harry Romeo LEWIS and Mary A. FELCH, was born
24 June 1882 in Oregon (probably Portland). At the time of their
marriage, she was working as a bookkeeper; I haven't learned anything
else about her early life.
About 1929, the family moved to Beverly Hills, Los Angeles County,
California, where William continued with his beverage supply business.
They apparently lived there the rest of their lives, with William
dying there 25 June 1967, followed by Lillian 18 November 1968.
Both are buried at the Pioneer Cemetery in Salem, Marion County,
Oregon.
William CRANE and Lillian LEWIS had three children
90. Walton Bradford CRANE (12 March 1906- 2 October 1986)
91. Ethel Lewis CRANE (11 November 1907-27 November 1965)
92. William Bradford CRANE (30 April 1915- 9 January 1974)
43. Emma CRANE [James E. CRANE-4, Theresa
BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], daughter of James
Elbert CRANE and Ruth GOODWIN, was born August 1862 at Keokuk,
Lee County, Iowa. She likely lived for a year in Lewis County,
Missouri, before returning to Keokuk, where her mother died 25
November 1864 [64, 73]. Probably she lived with her grandmother
Ruth (NEGLEY) GOODWIN in Keokuk until her father remarried in
1869, but it's possible she spent these years with her father's
family in Clark County, Missouri. By July 1870 she was living
with her father, brother, and stepmother Ariel (NORRIS) CRANE,
in Fayette, Howard County, Missouri [71]. They were in Missouri
(but perhaps not always in Fayette) until 1874, when the family
moved to Oakland, Alameda County, California [1].
About 1883, Emma married Edward W. THURMAN, probably in Oakland.
Edward was born in Indiana in September 1859; I haven't discovered
his parents' names [178], and I haven't identified them or Edward
in any census prior to 1900. The couple was living in San Francisco
in 1900, where Edward was employed as a machinest. In 1910, they
lived in Eden, Alameda County, California, where Edward worked
in a planing mill. By January 1920 they were back in San Francisco,
and Edward was still a woodworker in a planing mill. Both died
before 1930, Emma on 7 May 1924 and Edward 11 November (1920?).
Emma CRANE and Edward THURMAN had five children:
93. THURMAN child (ca 1884-before 1900)
94. THURMAN child (ca 1886-before 1900)
95. Elbert Robert THURMAN (29 March 1888- 6 May 1982)
96. Genevieve THURMAN (1890-before 1910)
97. Laurence George THURMAN (4 June 1892- 8 September 1976)
44. George E. CRANE [James E. CRANE-4, Theresa BRADFORD-3,
William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], son of James Elbert CRANE and
Ruth GOODWIN, was born 14 September 1864 in Lewis County, Missouri.
Probably he lived with his grandmother Ruth (NEGLEY) GOODWIN in
Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa, from November 1864, when his mother
died, until his father remarried in 1869 [64, 73]. However, it's
possible he spent these years with his father's family in Clark
County, Missouri. By July 1870 he was living with his father,
sister, and stepmother Ariel (NORRIS) CRANE, in Fayette, Howard
County, Missouri [71]. They were in Missouri (but perhaps not
always in Fayette) until 1874, when the family moved to Oakland,
Alameda County, California [1].
George graduated from Oakland High School, then worked for three
years as a clerk for the Southern Pacific Railroad. He moved to
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, where he sold real
estate [1]. On 16 February 1899, at Stockton, San Joaquin County,
California, he married Harriet M. KAPP. Harriet was born in California
4 September 1876, the daughter of James F. KAPP and Frances Alice
SMITH.
The couple lived in Stockton, California, their entire married
life. George continued as a real estate agent. He died 12 June
1942, and she died 27 December 1964. I don't know where they were
buried.
George CRANE and Harriet KAPP had three children:
98. Alice Marion CRANE (28 December 1905- 23 January 1985)
99. George E. CRANE Jr. (16 December 1908-)
100. Harriet Ethel CRANE (29 May 1911-1 October 1997)
45. Julia Irene CRANE [James E. CRANE-4, Theresa
BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], daughter of James
Elbert CRANE and Ariel NORRIS, was born 1 April 1871 in Missouri
(probably Howard or Marion county). She moved with her family
ca 1874 to Oakland, Alameda County, California, where she spent
her childhood years. Her education included attending Field's
Academy [1]. About 1891, she married (location undetermined) Fisher
C. WORLEY, the son of Henry H. WORLEY and Amelia CALMESE (?).
He was born January 1868 in Colusa County, California.
After their marriage, they farmed at Arbuckle, Colusa County,
California until at least June 1900 [28]. They were farming at
Woodland, Yolo County, California in April 1910 [179], and at
Silveyville, Solano County, California, in February 1920 [180].
Fisher died 11 March 1926 (location undetermined), and in April
1930 Julia was living in San Francisco, California, with the family
of her daughter, Wanda (WORLEY) MAHAN [181]. She died in San Francisco
10 January 1940.
Julia CRANE and Fisher WORLEY had three children:
101. Ariel WORLEY (June 1892-)
102. Bernice WORLEY (30 June 1896- 4 March 1987)
103. Wanda WORLEY (22 October 1904- 9 April 1980)
46. Arthur CRANE [James E. CRANE-4, Theresa BRADFORD-3,
William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], son of James Elbert CRANE and
Ariel NORRIS, was born June 1878 in Oakland, Alameda County, California,
where he attended public schools [1]. I have found little information
about him. In June 1900, he was working as a farm laborer for
his brother, Fisher WORLEY, at Arbuckle, Colusa County, California
[28]. About 1929 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, he married
Violet _____. Violet was born ca 1907 in Indiana. It was the first
marriage for both. In Chicago in 1930, Arthur was working as an
auto mechanic [182].
Arthur and Violet (___)
CRANE had one known child:
104. Frederick CRANE (March 1930-)
47. George Bradford
SCHOONOVER [Evanna
CRANE-4, Theresa BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1],
son of Thomas SCHOONOVER and Evanna CRANE, was born 3 June 1861
Alexandria, Clark County, Missouri. He lived in Clark County until
ca 1874, when his family moved to Oakland, Alameda County, California.
They lived in Oakland until some time after 1880 [79], then they
moved to Copper City, Shasta County, California. On 11 October
1888 in Shasta County, George married Margaret Lavina ELLIOTT.
Margaret was born in Illinois 8 February 1865; I have not identified
her parents [183].
George and Margaret lived in the mountains of Shasta County in
various communities (Copper City, Kennett, Mable, Antler, Middlefork)
until after January 1920 [77, 186, 187]. George was employed as
a mill wright in a lumber mill. By April 1930, they were living
at Squaw Valley, Siskiyou County, with George employed in a lumber
mill [188]. I have no specific information on their movements
after 1930, but Margaret reportedly died in Sacramento County,
California, 15 December 1942, and George died in Kings County,
California, 16 January 1944 [145].
George SCHOONOVER and Margaret ELLIOTT had three children:
105. Howard Elliott SCHOONOVER (29 August 1890- 15 November 1948)
106. Helen A. SCHOONOVER (13 October 1895- 11 October 1962)
107. Eva M. SCHOONOVER (28 August 1907 -)
48. Charles Edward SCHOONOVER [Evanna CRANE-4, Theresa
BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], son of Thomas SCHOONOVER
and Evanna CRANE, was born January 1865 in Alexandria, Clark County,
Missouri. He lived in Clark County until ca 1874, when his family
moved to Oakland, Alameda County, California. They lived in Oakland
until some time after 1880 [79], then they moved to Copper City,
Shasta County, California. Charles lived at Mabel, Shasta County,
from at least 1892 to 1896, where he was a stockman [184, 185].
In 1900 he was with his parents at Kennett, Shasta County, where
he was described as a telegraph operator, probably for the railroad
[77].
About 1902 Charles married Mame ________, at an undermined location.
Mame was reportedly born in Illinois ca 1866. This was apparently
her second marriage [189]. I haven't been able to locate the couple
from their marriage until January 1920, when they were living
at Colfax, Placer County, California, where Charles worked as
a telegraph operator for the railroad [190]. They were still in
Colfax in April 1930 [189]. Charles died 12 May 1935 [145]. I
haven't found any additional information on Mame.
I've found no indication that Charles and Mame had any children,
or that she had children from a previous marriage.
49. Frances Josephine SCHOONOVER [Evanna CRANE-4, Theresa
BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], daughter of Thomas
SCHOONOVER and Evanna CRANE, was born 2 November 1868 in Alexandria,
Clark County, Missouri. "Fannie" lived in Clark County
until ca 1874, when her family moved to Oakland, Alameda County,
California. They lived in Oakland until some time after 1880 [79],
then they moved to Copper City, Shasta County, California. She
was living in one of the small communities in the Shasta County
mountains (Copper City, Kennett, or Mable) when on 8 January 1891
she married Frank ARNOLD.
Frank was born May 1862 in California [111], but I have found
no definite information about his origins. Likely, he was the
Frank ARNOLD who in 1880 was employed as a printer in Scotts Valley,
Siskiyou County, California [191].
In June 1880 Fannie and Frank were living in Oakland, Alameda
County, California, where Frank was employed as a railroad postal
clerk [111]. By April 1910, they had moved to Santa Rosa, Sonoma
County, California, where Frank was the local mail manager for
the railroad [82]. In October 1920 they were in Berkeley, Alameda
County, California, with Frank still working with the railroad
as mail clerk [83]. Frank died some time between October 1920
and April 1930, when Fannie was recorded as a widow living in
Berkeley [84]. She died in Alameda County, California (probably
Berkeley) 16 September 1958 [145].
Frances SCHOONOVER and Frank ARNOLD had two children:
108. Geraldine M. ARNOLD (November 1892-)
109. Muriel M. ARNOLD (11 October 1898-7 December 1979)
50. James William SCHOONOVER [Evanna CRANE-4, Theresa BRADFORD-3,
William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], son of Thomas SCHOONOVER and
Evanna CRANE, was born 6 September 1871 in Alexandria, Clark County,
Missouri. "Will" lived in Clark County until ca 1874,
when his family moved to Oakland, Alameda County, California.
They lived in Oakland until some time after 1880 [79], then they
moved to Copper City, Shasta County, California. Will was in Shasta
County at various locations at least until 1912: Redding 1892-1894;
Kennett 1894-1896; Taylor 1898; Big Bend-Burney Valley 1900; Winthrop
1904; Shasta River Arm 1910; Redding 1912. He worked as a clerk
or bookkeeper during those years [77, 184, 185, 192].
On 20 October 1900 Will married Nellie B. GARRECHT. Nellie, the
daughter of Lorenz GARRECHT and Amalie PREHN, was born in Shasta
County ca 1881. As noted already, the lived in Shasta County at
various locations until at least 1912. By January 1920 they were
living at Alameda, Alameda County, California [193].
Nellie reportedly died 19 December 1925, location so far undetermined
[145]. I have an incomplete record of Will after that date. He
was living in Redding in 1936 [194]. He later moved to Humboldt
County, California, where he died 6 November 1957 [145].
Will SCHOONOVER and Nellie GARRECHT reportedly had two children:
110. SCHOONOVER child (born and died between 1901 and 1910)
111. SCHOONOVER child (born and died between 1901 and 1910)
51. Alice E. SCHOONOVER [Evanna CRANE-4, Theresa BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], daughter of Thomas SCHOONOVER and Evanna CRANE, was born September 1873 in Alexandria, Clark County, Missouri. She lived in Clark County until ca 1874, when her family moved to Oakland, Alameda County, California. They lived in Oakland until some time after 1880 [79], then they moved to Copper City, Shasta County, California. She was living in the Shasta County mountains with her parents, unmarried, at least as late as June 1900 [77]. I have found no records of her after that date.
52. Raymond Elmer
CRANE [Charles
CRANE-4, Theresa BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1],
son of Charles CRANE and Sarah MERRITT, was born 11 August 1881
in Oakland, Alameda County, California. He spent his early years
in Oakland, living with his family until after June 1900 [111].
In February 1904 in Oakland, he and his cousin, Oscar Jerome BACKUS,
founded Eljer Inc., originally to produce flush valves for toilets
and later to produce toilets and other toilet fixtures [195].
About 1906, Raymond married Ellen A. FEARN. Ellen, daughter of
John and Sarah J. (___) FEARN, was born in California in December
1880 [281]. The family moved a number of times, presumably in
response to the development of Eljer, Inc. For example, in 1907
Eljer opened a plant in Cameron, Marshall County, West Virginia
[195]. Raymond and Ellen were in Oakland in November 1909 (a son
born), but by April 1910 were living in Cameron, West Virginia
[197]. They were back in Oakland, California, for at least part
of the time February 1911 to April 1915 (sons born 1911, 1913,
and 1915). They were living in Cook County, Illinois, in September
1918, but Raymond identified his employer as Eljer in West Virginia
(military draft registration). They were in New Trier, Cook County,
Illinois January 1920 [198], but by April 1930 had moved to Kittanning,
Armstrong County, Pennsylvania [105]. Probably not coincidentally,
Eljar had closed down their West Virginia operations in 1929,
consolidating their operations at Ford City, Armstrong County,
Pennsylvania, in a plant they had been using for part of their
manufacturing since 1918 [195].
The last definite report I have on either Raymond or Ellen is
from 27 April 1942, when Raymond registered for the World War
II draft (even though he was 60 years old!). At that time, both
were alive, and still residing in Kittanning, Pennsylvania. It
has been reported that Raymond died in 1953 [199], but I haven't
found details yet.
Raymond CRANE and Ellen FEARN had four children:
112. Raymond Radford CRANE (6 November 1909- before 1911)
113. Raymond Radford CRANE (10 February 1911-May 1981)
114. David CRANE (ca 1913 -)
115. Robert CRANE (16 April 1915- November 1985)
53. Linnie CRANE [Charles CRANE-4, Theresa BRADFORD-3,
William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], daughter of Charles CRANE and
Sarah MERRITT, was born ca 1883 in Oakland, Alameda County, California.
She died in Oakland before 1900.
54. Miriam Merritt
CRANE [Charles
CRANE-4, Theresa BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1],
daughter of Charles CRANE and Sarah MERRITT, was born December
1885 in Oakland, Alameda County, California. She lived with her
family in Oakland until ca 1905, when she married Roy Hugh CRAIG.
Roy, the son of Hugh and Inez A. (GILCHRIST) CRAIG, was born in
Alameda County, California, 23 October 1879.
The couple lived in Piedmont, Alameda County, California, for
several years, then moved to Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon
by April 1910 [210]. Within a year, they had moved to Atlanta,
Fulton County, Georgia, where in 1912 they divorced [200]. Roy
CRAIG was granted custody of their one child, and he later remarried.
I have found no records of Miriam after October 1912.
Miriam CRANE and Roy CRAIG had one child:
116. Gordon Hugh CRAIG (ca 1906-)
55. Lester G. BURPEE,
son of[Joseph
BURPEE and Irene SPICER, was born 4 September 1860 in Jacksonville,
Jackson County, Oregon. He lived there with his family until the
late 1860s, then they moved to Springfield, Greene County, Missouri
[109]. By 1873, they had moved to Oakland, Alameda County, California,
where Lester attended public schools until 1879. He worked as
private secretary to E. C. Sessions, president of the Oakland
Bank of Savings, for two years, then bought a fruit ranch in Solano
County, California, but sold it in 1883 and returned to Oakland
[114].
In January 1882, probably in Oakland, Lester married Mary Isabelle
ADAMS. Mary, daughter of Andrew J. and Elizabeth (___) ADAMS,
was born in Marion County, Oregon, ca November 1859 [201]. She
lived with her family in Oregon until the late 1860s, when they
moved to Santa Barbara County, California [202]. By June 1880,
they were living in Plano, Tulare County, California [203]. Presumably
they moved to Alameda County by 1882, but I have no record of
that.
The couple lived in Oakland all their married life, Lester service
in a number of clerical and administrative positions, finally
becoming vice-president of the First National Bank in 1906 [204].
Lester reportedly died 26 October 1915; I have no information
on Mary after 1910.
Lester BURPEE and Mary ADAMS had four children:
117. Earl Lester BURPEE (January 1883-)
118. Joseph Stanley BURPEE (June 1884-)
119. Hazel Mary BURPEE (16 January 1887- 11 March 1963)
120. Donald BURPEE (ca 1901-)
56. Cora J. BURPEE, daughter of Joseph BURPEE and Irene
SPICER, was reportedly born 29 May 1863 in Jacksonville, Jackson
County, Oregon, and died there 19 November 1865. I have found
no documented evidence of this, so far.
57. Charles S. BURPEE, son of Joseph BURPEE and Irene SPICER,
was reportedly born 24 December 1864 in Jacksonville, Jackson
County, Oregon, and 8 August 1867 (probably in Jacksonville, although
the family was living in Greene County, Missouri, by June 1870
[109]). I have found no documented evidence of this person, so
far.
58. Walter Joseph
BURPEE [Josephine
CRANE-4, Theresa BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1],
son of Joseph BURPEE and Josephine CRANE, was born 13 June 1880
in Oakland, Alameda County, California. He lived his entire life
in Oakland and nearby Berkeley and Piedmont, Alameda County, California.
He was an attorney, including working in the Alameda County District
Attorney's Office [83, 85, 111].
Between January 1920 and May 1925, he married Florence Helen GROVER.
Helen, daughter of William A. GROVER and Marietta OSBORN, was
born 24 July 1882 at Folsom, Sacramento County, California [205].
The family was in Oakland as early as June 1900 [111]. In January
1920, Helen was living with her sister in Berkeley, and working
as a clerk in a dry goods store [83].
Helen died in Alameda County (probably Piedmont) 3 March 1968;
Walter died later the same year, 18 December 1968). They did not
have any children.
59. Florence J. BURPEE [Josephine CRANE-4, Theresa BRADFORD-3,
William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], daughter of Joseph BURPEE and
Josephine CRANE, was born 23 June 1883 in Oakland, Alameda County,
California. She spent her youth in Oakland, and ca 1905 married
William Francis MORRISH. William, the son of William B. MORRISH
and Eliza RICHARDS, was born 9 February 1883 in Sierra City, Sierra
County, California. The family had moved to Oakland some time
between ca 1887 and 1900 [111].
Florence and William lived their early married life in Oakland
and nearby Berkeley, California, where William served in various
clerical and financial positions before becoming president of
the Bank of America. By 1953, they had moved to Orinda, Contra
Costa County, California, where William died 26 April 1955 and
Florence died 2 January 1967.
Florence BURPEE and William MORRISH had two children:
121. Kendric Bradford MORRISH (15 January 1907- 15 November 1991)
122. Josephine MORRISH (18 June 1909- 25 July 1997)
60. Edith FULTON [Alice CRANE-4, Theresa BRADFORD-3,
William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], daughter of Cary FULTON and Alice
CRANE, was born 23 September 1877 at Oakland, Alameda County,
California. She was living there with her family ca 1907 when
she married Clarence Wythe DODGE. Clarence, son of Edward E. DODGE
and Mary WYTHE, was born 5 October 1873 at Auburn, Placer County,
California. By June 1880 the family had moved to Sutter Creek,
Amador County, California [206), and by June 1900 were at Yuba
City, Sutter County, California [207]. In the 1900 census, he
was also recorded at his grandparents' residence (Joseph H. WYTHE)
in Oakland [180], and staying with them may be how he met Edith
FULTON.
Clarence DODGE was a physician throughout their married life.
Shortly after their marriage, they moved to Taft, Kern County,
California, and were there at least into 1911 (child born there).
They were in Los Angeles, California for several years (children
born 1915 and 1917), then returned to Oakland by January 1920
[120], probably to have the family close to relatives while Clarence
was in military service overseas at Miesenheim, Germany [208).
By April 1930, the Dodges were living in Piedmont, Alameda County,
California. Clarence died there 11 January 1959, and Edith 10
October 1961 [145].
Edith FULTON and Clarence DODGE had three children:
123. Clarence Wythe DODGE Jr. (30 January 1911-27 April 1993)
124. Alison DODGE (19 September 1915-)
125. Evelyn Ruth DODGE (17 February 1917-)
61. Eva Alberta FULTON [Alice CRANE-4, Theresa BRADFORD-3,
William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], daughter of Cary FULTON and Alice
CRANE, was born 22 October 1881 at Oakland, Alameda County, California.
Eva lived with her parents, and later her widowed mother, in Oakland
until ca 1928. She was a schoolteacher.
About 1928, she married in Oakland Burton Jackson WYMAN. Burton,
the son of Washington WYMAN and Ellen M. ABBOTT, was born 22 December
1879 at Pepperell, Middlesex County, California. He moved with
his parents to Paso Robles, San Luis Obispo County, California,
in 1888, then moved to Oakland in 1899. There he attended school
and worked as a reporter for local newspapers (Morning Times,
and San Francisco Bulletin) while studying law [209]. He had passed
the bar and entered private legal practice in Oakland by 1910
[85]. He became a bankruptcy referee in September 1926 [209].
Eva died in Oakland 26 June 1955, and Burton died there 2 May
1960. They did not have any children.
62. Louis Martin
BRADFORD
[George BRADFORD-4, John BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1],
son of George BRADFORD and Ellen MARTIN, was born 8 November 1875
at Orland, Colusa County, California [145]. He was living there
with his parents in June 1880 [26]. His parents divorced between
1880 and 1900, and I have not located him again until June 1900,
when he was living in Sacramento, Sacramento County, California,
employed as a railroad brakeman [211]. About 1905, probably in
Sacramento, he married Pansy E. SCHROLL.
Pansy SCHROLL, daughter of Henry SCHROLL and Mary A. TAYLOR [215],
was born 19 February 1883 [145] in Macon County, Illinois, probably
Hickory Point Township where the family was living in 1880 [214].
By June 1900, they were at Decatur, Marion County, Illinois [214].
Pansy's family was still in Illinois in 1910, and I don't know
how she or where she met Louis. In any event, they were living
in Sacramento in April 1910, where Louis was working as a real
estate salesman [212].
By January 1920 the family had moved to Klamath Falls, Klamath
County, Oregon, where Louis was once again with the railroad,
working as a Southern Pacific conductor [216]. They were still
in Klamath Falls in April 1930 [217], but returned sometime after
that to Sacramento County, California, where Louis died 26 December
1949, followed by Pansy 10 April 1956 [145].
Louis BRADFORD and Pansy
SCHROLL had one child:
126. Mary Ellen BRADFORD (ca 1911-)
63. John David BRADFORD
[George BRADFORD-4, John BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1],
son of George BRADFORD and Ellen MARTIN, 20 January 1877 at Orland,
Colusa County, California [145]. He was living there with his
parents in June 1880 [26]. His parents divorced between 1880 and
1900, and I have not located him again until June 1900. At that
time, he was working on a farm at Grand Island, Colusa County,
California [218].
In 1899 John married Nellie WARD in Colusa County, probably in
Arbuckle. Nellie, daughter of John C. WARD and Mary Elizabeth
WEAVER, was born at Arbuckle 18 June 1876 [145]. The couple was
living with the Wards in June 1900, and John was working on a
farm [28]. By April 1910 they had moved to Sacramento, California,
where John was working as a railroad brakeman [212]. I haven't
been able to find the family for the next 20 years, but they were
in Sacramento in April 1930, and John was still employed as a
railroad brakeman [219]. Later, they were living in Los Angeles
County, California, where Nellie died 22 December 1947 and John
died 8 January 1955 [145].
John D. BRADFORD and
Nellie WARD had one child:
127. Fern Elaine BRADFORD (24 May 1901-18 December 1982)
64. Delbert Lorenzo BRADFORD [George BRADFORD-4, John BRADFORD-3,
William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], son of George BRADFORD and Ellen
MARTIN, was born 12 March 1879 at Orland, Colusa County, California
[26, 145]. His parents divorced between 1880 and 1900, and I have
not located him again until June 1900. At that time, he was living
in Sacramento, Sacramento County, California, working as a railroad
brakeman [211]. About 1901, probably in Colusa County, he married
Frances E. NEEL.
"Frankie" NEEL, the daughter of John M. NEEL and Sarah
M. SHIELDS [145], was born at Colusa, Colusa County, California
in September 1882. She and Delbert were living in Sacramento in
April 1910, where she was managing a rooming house and he was
a salesman in a second-hand store [212]. They divorced, and in
January 1920 Delbert was at Princeton, Colusa County, California,
working as a tractor engineer [220]. Frankie was in Ventura, Ventura
California, working as a housekeeper in a private home [221].
I have found no records of Frances (NEEL) BRADFORD after 1920,
or any of Delbert between 1920 and 1940. He died in Shasta County,
California, 14 February 1941 [145].
Delbert BRADFORD and
Frances NEEL had two children:
128. Fay M. BRADFORD (ca 1904-)
129. Burk R. BRADFORD (5 October 1905-3 October 1969)
65. Marion Govan HIGH [Caroline BRADFORD-4, John BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], son of Charles HIGH and Caroline BRADFORD, was born 13 February 1871 at Dunnigan, Yolo County, California [132, 145]. ]. His family lived in the Capay-Dunnigan area until 1873, then moved to Princeton, Colusa County, where they lived until about 1877 [dates of birth of siblings]. By June 1880, his grandparents, parents and siblings were all living in Ashland, Jackson County, Oregon [136]. Sometime between 1881 and 1900, his immediate family relocated to the Dorris area, Siskiyou County, California. He lived in the area until at least April 1930, and probably the rest of his life [137, 138, 139, 222]. He worked as a farmer and woodcutter. He never married, and he died 20 December 1952 in Siskiyou County [145].
66. May Caroline HIGH [Caroline BRADFORD-4, John BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], daughter of Charles HIGH and Caroline BRADFORD, was born 17 March 1873 at Dunnigan, Yolo County, California [132, 145]. ]. Her family lived in the Capay-Dunnigan area until 1873, then moved to Princeton, Colusa County, where they lived until about 1877 [dates of birth of siblings]. The family then moved to Ashland, Jackson County, Oregon. She died in 1880 [132], apparently before June because she was not recorded in the June federal census [136].
67. Lewis Hamilton
HIGH [Caroline
BRADFORD-4, John BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1],
son of Charles HIGH and Caroline BRADFORD, was born 25 March 1874
at Princeton, Colusa County, California [132, 145]. ]. His family
lived at Princeton until about 1877 [dates of birth of siblings].
By June 1880, his grandparents, parents and siblings were all
living in Ashland, Jackson County, Oregon [136]. Sometime between
1881 and 1900, his immediate family relocated to the Dorris area,
Siskiyou County, California. I could not find him in the 1900
federal census, but he was probably in the area because he married
Ivy M. BRAY at Dorris 11 June 1905 [132].
Ivy M. BRAY, daughter of William J. BRAY and Jennie A. BECK, was
born 23 October 1881 at Yreka, Siskiyou County, California [132,
145]. Her family had moved from Yreka to the Dorris area before
1900 [137]. Lewis and Ivy lived and farmed at Dorris until at
least early 1910 [138], but by January 1920 had relocated to Happy
Camp, Siskiyou County [223]. When they first moved to Happy Camp,
they were farming, but by 1930 they were operating a public campground
and restaurant [224]. I haven't determined how long they stayed
in Happy Camp after 1930, but both died somewhere in Siskiyou
County, Lewis on 22 June 1959 and Ivy on 21 February 1960 [145].
Lewis HIGH and Ivy BRAY
had two children:
130. Genevieve HIGH (17 April 1906-14 July 1996)
131. Helen HIGH (30 January 1909-January 1979)
68. Charles Francis HIGH [Caroline BRADFORD-4, John BRADFORD-3,
William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], son of Charles HIGH and Caroline
BRADFORD, was born 7 June 1875 at Princeton, Colusa County, California
[132, 145]. ]. His family lived at Princeton until about 1877
[dates of birth of siblings]. By June 1880, his grandparents,
parents and siblings were all living in Ashland, Jackson County,
Oregon [136]. Sometime between 1881 and 1900, his immediate family
relocated to the Dorris area, Siskiyou County, California.
In his adult life, he almost always used the name Frank Charles
HIGH. He lived at Dorris at least through April 1930, where he
was a grain farmer [137, 138, 139, 222]. He married 26 November
1903, Julia Christina RODSCHOU. Julia was born in Denmark in 1874.
I haven't found out anything about her parents, or when she arrived
in the United States.
In April 1930, while Frank was at Dorris, California, Julia had
part of the family at Bellview, Jackson County, Oregon, where
she was farming [225]. Julia died in Jackson County in 1930, and
was buried at the Central Point, Oregon, IOOF cemetery. I can't
account for Frank High for the next 36 years, but he also died
in Jackson County, Oregon, at Ashland 15 December 1966.
Frank HIGH and Julia RODSCHOU
had six children:
132. Eber Francis HIGH (7 November 1905-18 November 1988)
133. Leon J. HIGH (18 December 1906-March 1967)
134. Donald C. HIGH (29 November 1908-)
135. Frances HIGH (15 September 1910-September 1983)
136. Clarice HIGH (26 June 1912-8 October 2003)
137. May C. HIGH (14 September 1913-)
69. Jesse Leroy HIGH [Caroline BRADFORD-4, John BRADFORD-3,
William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], son of Charles HIGH and Caroline
BRADFORD, was born 27 May 1877 at Princeton, Colusa County, California
[132]. ]. His family lived at Princeton until about 1877 (Jesse's
birth year). By June 1880, his grandparents, parents and siblings
were all living in Ashland, Jackson County, Oregon [136]. Sometime
after 1881, his immediate family relocated to the Dorris area,
Siskiyou County, California. In June 1900 Jesse was employed as
a farm laborer in Hot Spring township, Modoc County, California
[226], but by May 1910 had returned to the Dorris area.
On 3 June 1912, at Dorris, he married Hazel May WHITE [132]. Hazel,
the daughter of Alfred WHITE and Florence _____ [227], was born
12 May 1893 in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California [132,
228]. I haven't been able to locate her or her parents in other
censuses, so I don't know where she met Jesse.
Jesse and Hazel had moved from Dorris to Topsy, Klamath County,
Oregon, by November 1914 (child born). Topsy was in the mountains
west of Klamath Falls, and the Highs raised livestock there. They
lived there the rest of their lives [229, 230], with Hazel dying
there 27 October 1926 [231]. Jesse died at the Hillside Hospital,
Klamath Falls, 14 January 1937 [132, 231].
Jesse HIGH and Hazel WHITE had
three children:
138. Florence C. HIGH (12 October 1913-)
139. Jesse Albert HIGH (17 November 1914-12 November 1966)
140. Elinor Daisy HIGH (12 May 1916-)
70. Daisy Annie HIGH [Caroline BRADFORD-4, John BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], daughter of Charles HIGH and Caroline BRADFORD, was born 29 November 1881 at Ashland, Jackson County, Oregon [132]. Sometime before 1900, her immediate family relocated to the Dorris area, Siskiyou County, California [137]. On 11 June 1905, in Siskiyou County, she married George Knight BRAY. George, son of William J. BRAY and Jennie A. BECK, was born 11 April 1875 at Yreka, Siskiyou County, California. Daisy and George lived at Yreka the rest of the lives, where they were farmers. George died there 25 January 1950 [145]. I haven't found a death record for Daisy. They had no children.
71. BASHORE [Jessie BRADFORD-4, John BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1]. In 1910, Jessie (BRADFORD) BASHORE reported that she had given birth to five children, three of them still alive [152]. We can account for four. There is a gap of some three years between the marriage of Jessie Bradford and Wallace Bashore and their first identified child. It is likely that this "missing" child was born ca 1885 and died before the 1900 census. An alternative is that the child was born and died ca 1891, and died by 1900.
72. Emily BASHORE
[Jessie BRADFORD-4,
John BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], daughter of
Wallace BASHORE and Jessie BRADFORD, was born ca 1886, probably
in Colusa County, California. By June 1900 her family had moved
to Oceanside, San Diego County [27]. About 1905 she married Ben
L. FAIRCHILD. Ben was born ca 1881 in Texas, of parents reportedly
born in Texas [232]. I haven't been able to find out anything
else about him.
Apparently Ben and Emily lived in Los Angeles County for awhile
(daughter born there March 1907), but by 1910 they were back in
San Diego County (San Luis Rey), dairy farming [232]. I can find
no record of either of them after 1910. Their daughter was enumerated
with her grandmother, Jessie BASHORE, in San Diego in the January
1920 census [147]; was she visiting, or had something happened
to her parents?
Emily BASHORE and Ben
FAIRCHILD had one daughter:
141. Evalyn L. FAIRCHILD (21 March 1907-)
73. Ethel BASHORE [Jessie BRADFORD-4, John BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], daughter of Jessie BRADFORD and Wallace BASHORE, was born ca 1890, probably in Colusa County, California. By June 1900 her family had moved to Oceanside, San Diego County [27]. In May 1910 she was living at San Luis Rey, San Diego County, where she was a public school teacher. She was single [232]. I have no records of her after that date.
74. Connell Bert BASHORE [Jessie BRADFORD-4, John BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], son of Jessie BRADFORD and Wallace BASHORE, was born ca 1890, probably in Colusa County, California. By June 1900 his family had moved to Oceanside, San Diego County [27]. He died 7 February 1910 in San Diego, and was buried at Mt. Hope Cemetery [233].
75. George Arthur
BASHORE [Jessie
BRADFORD-4, John BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1],
son of Jessie BRADFORD and Wallace BASHORE, was born 3 January
1897, probably at Oceanside, San Diego County, California, where
the family was living in June 1900 [27]. The family moved into
San Diego before May 1910 [152]. In San Diego in 1917, he married
Juanita DEVOE.
Juanita, daughter of Wilbur DEVOE and Edith _____, was born in
Polk County, Oregon, in February 1899 [234]. In April 1910, she
was censused in her Devoe grandparents' home in Salem, Marion
County, Oregon [235]. I haven't found any information on her parents
between 1900 and 1920, but in January 1820 her mother Edith DEVOE
was in the home of Juanita's mother-in-law Jessie BASHORE in San
Diego. She was widowed at that time [147]. Apparently Juanita
moved to San Diego with her mother sometime before 1917.
In January 1920 George and Juanita were at El Centro, Imperial
County, California, where George was working as a mechanic in
a garage [236]. By April 1930 they were in La Mesa, San Diego
County, and George was again employed in an auto repair shop [237].
They were in San Diego County at least through 1933 (son born),
then I lose track of them until 1978. George died 7 April 1978
in Riverside County, California [145]. I have found no later records
for Juanita.
George BASHORE and Juanita
DEVOE had three known children. One is known to b deceased:
142. Clifford Arthur BASHORE (22 May 1918-10 November 1990)
143. BASHORE female.
144. BASHORE male.
76. Wilmer Wohlfrom
BRADFORD [William
BRADFORD-4, John BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1],
son of William BRADFORD and Emma WOHLFROM, was born 1 December
1900 near Arbuckle, Colusa County, California [28, 238]. After
his mother died in 1912, he and his brother and sister lived with
the WOHLFROM family (Emma's sisters and brother) at Arbuckle [158].
Wilmer attended Pierce High School in College City and later attended
the California Agricultural College at Davis, California [238].
About 1929 he married Mildred _____, who was born in Oregon ca
1901. I have no information on her family.
Wilmer and Mildred farmed near Zamora, Yolo County, California,
and later Wilmer dealt in farm real estate in Yolo and Colusa
counties. They later lived in Woodland, Yolo County, where Wilmer
died 13 December 2003 [238]. Mildred died there ca 16 August 2006
[239].
Wilmer BRADFORD and
Mildred _____ had two children:
145. BRADFORD male
146. BRADFORD male
77. Thelma BRADFORD [William BRADFORD-4, John BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], daughter of William BRADFORD and Emma WOHLFROM, was born 9 October 1906 at Arbuckle, Colusa County, California [145]. After her mother died in 1912, she and her brothers lived with the WOHLFROM family (Emma's sisters and brother) at Arbuckle [158]. She married ____ STOTT, probably before 1930. I have no further information about them until Thelma's death 25 February 1989 at Alameda, Alameda County, California [145].
78. Francis H. BRADFORD [William BRADFORD-4, John BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], son of William BRADFORD and Emma WOHLFROM, was born 7 November 1908 at Arbuckle, Colusa County, California [145]. After his mother died in 1912, he and his brother and sister lived with the WOHLFROM family (Emma's sisters and brother) at Arbuckle [158]. He was living with his aunt Clara WOHLFROM in Williams, Colusa County, California, in April 1930 [240]. He married Helen ______, and lived at various times at Berkeley, Alameda County, California, and San Jose, Santa Clara County, California. He died at San Jose 8 November 2005 [238, 241]. I haven't researched their children.
79. Lowell William BRADFORD [William BRADFORD-4, John BRADFORD-3, William BRADFORD-2, BRADFORD-1], son of William BRADFORD and Maria KRAFT, was born 30 August 1918 at Arbuckle, Colusa County, California. He lived with his parents are Arbuckle at least until 1930 [158, 242]. Later, he lived at San Jose, Santa Clara County, Caliornia, where he died 12 April 2007 [241]. I have no information on any marriage or children.
REFERENCES
1. Anonymous. 1892. The Bay of
San Francisco: the metropolis of the Pacific Coast and its suburban
cities. A History. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co.
Volume 1, Pages 569-570: Biography of James Elbert Crane.
2. U. S. Federal Census 1850, Newark East Ward, Essex County, New Jersey.
3. U. S. Federal Census 1860, Madison and Jackson townships, Clark County, Missouri
4. U. S. Federal Census 1790, New York City, New York County, New York. NOTE: The 1790 census does not give ages or relationships for females, and only differentiates between males who are under 16 and over 16.
5. Anonymous. 1882. Records of the First and Second Presbyterian Churches of the City of New York. New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 13(2):87-91
6. Possibly William BRADFORD-2 was the William whose name is mentioned in New York City newspapers in the 1830s. For example, a William Bradford was (a) on the board of directors, Jefferson Insurance Company, Chatham Street corner of Pearl in 1831 (New York Evening Post, 2 December 1831); (b) an administrator of the Franklin Institute, a school for young men, New Rochelle, New York, 1831 (he lived at 72 Maiden Lane; New York Evening Post, 2 December 1831); (c) a hiring agent for Saugerties Paper Mill in August 1836 (New York "Herald," 8 August 1836); (d) on U. S. Circuit Court grand juries in 1833, 1834 and 1836 (New York "Spectator," 10 June 1833; "Spectator," 31 July 1834; "Spectator," 3 March 1836); and (e) a director of the United States Fire Insurance Company, 288 Pearl Street, in 1837 (New York "American," 7 October 1837. There was another William BRADFORD in New York City in 1836, but as he was marrying that year (to Miss Mary COYLE of Patterson, New Jersey; New York "Spectator," 18 July 1836), perhaps he was too young to have been the one.
7. Anonymous. 1835. Disastrous fire. New-York Spectator, 13 August 1835" A major fire "this morning" burned a number of city blocks in New York City, including 112 Fulton Street, which was "occupied below by Mr. Bradford, tailor, and Mr. Columbus, hair-dresser; above by a French boarding house." Only the walls were left standing of the building owned by Dr. Hardenbrook. He was insured.
8. U. S. Federal Census 1800, New York City, New York County, New York.
9. U. S. Federal Census 1810, New York City, New York County, New York
10. U. S. Federal Census 1820, New York City, New York County, New York.
11. U. S. Federal Census 1830, Hanover, Morris County, New Jersey.
12. U. S. Federal Census 1840, West Ward, Newark, Essex County, New Jersey.
13. Anonymous. 1840. Pierson's Directory of the City of Newark for 1840-41. Newark, NJ: B. T. Pierson.
14. U. S. Federal Census 1870, Byberry Postoffice, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
15. Advertisements similar to
the following appeared in Newark business directories from at
least 1835 to 1847:
L. M. & D. B. CRANE
Wholesale and Retail Cabinet Ware Manufacturers
319 and 333 Broad Street
Where will be found, at all times, a splendid assortment of cabinet
and upholstery ware.
Also, ready made coffins.
L. M. Crane, D. B. Crane and J. H. Crane
16. Newark, New Jersey, city directories for 1846-47, 1847-48, and 1848-49.
17. U. S. Federal Census 1850 - Eastern District 36, Monongalia County, (West) Virginia
18. Clark County, Missouri, deed - Deed Book 0, pages 619-620. James and Theresa CRANE to Sarah B. CLARK. This deed is very hard to read, even in the original, but the gist of it is that James H. and Theresa CRANE sold back to Sarah B. CLARK 1,200 acres of land that the CRANES had originally purchased from her 15 April 1857. We haven't been able to find the original deed. The re-sale was dated 25 August 1860, when Clark paid the Cranes $700 for lands in sections 26, 27, 28 and 35.
19. Clark County, Missouri, mortgage
- Deed Book Q, page 765. For the purpose of securing to Thomas
Schoonover of Clark County State of Missouri Two hundred and fifty
dollars rent for the Farm I now live on. To-wit: the Northeast
quarter Section Twenty-eight Township 65 north of Seven West,
for the years 1862, 1863 & 1864. Said rent being for each
of said years which full amt. is still due and unpaid, except
one hundred and twenty-five dollars, which last said amount being
the cost of putting roof on barn on said premises. Now it is hereby
understood that said Schoonover shall have a lien on all hay &
grain grown on said farm the present year and also on 40 head
of sheep now on said farm and 3 yearling colts & one bay mare
& one bay horse & 4 milch cows & six head of yearling
calves & 20 head of hogs, one two-horse wagon & harness,
two ploughs and two cultivators & 1 harrow. All said stock
and property being on said farm at this date. Now if I pay or
cause to be paid to T. Schoonover the above about, to-wit, seven
hundred & fifty dollars, less one hundred & twenty-five
dollars for repairs, by the first day of April 1865 then this
obligation is void. Otherwise to remain in full force and effect.
/s/ James H. Crane 24 August 1864
NOTE: there is a marginal note by Thomas Schoonover 25 September
1866, canceling this mortgage.
20. City directories for Oakland, Alameda County, California, for 1875-1878.
21. Records of the Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda County, California. Found on-line June 2008 at: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ca/alameda/cemeteries/
22. In a family paper on the Cranes prepared by Percy Pope Dabney, James Harvey Crane and Sarah Theresa Bradford are credited with 12 children, but only ten are named. Perhaps two others died as infants, but I have found no record of them.
23. The parents of Caroline (WARD) BRADFORD are regularly reported to be Phineas WARD and Nancy WILLIS, but I have never seen a documented source for this information. Her regularly reported birthdate of 22 October 1822 agrees with information asked for in the 1900 census, but her age reported in the 1850 to 1900 censuses, plus her age at death given in her obituary (85 years 1 month, 26 days) indicate an October 1824 birth date.
24. U. S. Federal Census 1860 - Cascade City, Butte County, California. NOTE: The site of Cascade City is now apparently slightly inside Plumas County. It was a short-lived mining town, with a population of 622 in 1860. A post office was established on 27 April 1859, but was discontinued in 1860 [From Mansfield's History of Butte County (1918)].
25. U. S. Federal Census 1870 - Maine Prairie and Binghampton, Solano County, California.
26. U. S. Federal Census 1880 - Orland, Colusa County, California.
27. U. S. Federal Census 1900 - Oceanside, San Diego County, California.
28. U. S. Federal Census 1900 - Arbuckle, Colusa County, California.
29. Anonymous. 1909. Bradford (obituary, Caroline Bradford). San Diego (California) "Union" 19 December 1909.
30. U. S. Federal Census 1900 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California.
31. U. S. Federal Census 1850 - Sacramento, Sacramento County, California.
32. U. S. Federal Census 1910 - Malibu, Los Angeles County, California.
33. A William H. Bradford died 9 March 1912, and was buried 11 March 1912 in the Los Angeles National Cemetery, 950 South Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90049, Section 21 Row C Site 9. This is almost certainly William, son of William Bradford and Elizabeth Harrison, as he was living in the nearby Malibu soldiers' home in 1910, age 90. If it is him, he served his military time with Company H, 10th Wisconsin Infantry.
34. U. S. Federal Census 1870 - Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
35. Burial records, Kearney Cemetery, Kearny, Nebraska: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nebuffal/cemetery/krny.htm
36. U. S. Federal Census 1880 - Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
37. U. S. Federal Census 1900 - Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
38. Francis BARNES, brother of David BARNES, was also in Clark County, Missouri, in 1860. He was married to a cousin of Angelina (CRANE) BARNES: Orleanna "Anna" (RENTON) BARNES (Individual #12, above).
39. U. S. Federal Census 1870 - Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
40. U. S. Federal Census 1880 - Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
41. Wisconsin death records: from an Ancestry.com on-line database
42. Letter to William B. Crane 23 November 1854, from his uncle Charles H. Crane; mailed from San Francisco, refers to the Cranes as "Pittsburghers."
43. Letter from Alex McCLURE of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, December 1854, introducing William B. CRANE, to the firm of Squier & Reed. McClure stated that Crane had worked for them "for some months past," he was from a respectable family, and "very industrious." Squier & Reed were iron merchants in St. Louis, Missouri.
44. Family lore is that William B. Crane attended school with Clarence KING. later chief of the U. S. Geological Survey, and studied geology and mining at that time. Crane and King were friends and business associates in later years in Idaho and Nevada, and were of a similar age (Crane born 1835, King born in 1842). However, King's education occurred in Massachusetts and Connecticut 1852-1860 [T. Wilkins (1988), Clarence King, a Biography. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press], when Crane was well documented as having been in Pennsylvania and Missouri.
45. U. S. Federal Census 1850 - Lewis County, Missouri
46. Newspaper ad ca 1858, source
unknown: HOKE & CRANE
Jos. W. Hoke - W. B. Crane Dealers in Agricultural Implements,
Hardware, Stoves &c.
Also General Commission Merchants
Canton, MO.
47. Business card ca 1858: Carriage
Repository
W. B. Crane Dealer in Carriages, Buggies, &c.,
Canton, Mo.
48. U. S. Federal Census 1860 - St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri
49. Advertisement from unidentified
newspaper
IF YOU WANT TO CROSS THE MISSOURI RIVER
Be sure to go by way of the Independence Steam Ferry
At Independence Levee (formerly Wayne City)
It is the best steam ferry boat on the Missouri River and can
carry
Twenty-five loaded teams at one trip.
New Announcement!
THE BOAT WILL HEREAFTER CROSS THE RIVER EVERY FIFTEEN MINUTES
From sun-rise till sun-set. Any person unreasonably detained at
this ferry will be crossed free of charge.
By this route it is three miles nearer from Liberty to Independence
than by any other, and a much better road, with only two miles
of Missouri river bottom to cross. This is also the nearest point
at which emigrants from the North and East can reach the Sante
Fe road. Respectfully, &c.,
March 4, 1859 W. B. CRANE, Proprietor.
50. Business card ca 1860: W.
B. Crane Wholesale dealer in Stoves Hollow ware, nails, window
glass,
Looking glasses, shovels, spades, &c., And a general assortment
of Pittsburgh manufactures
No. 3 North Main Street Saint Louis, Mo.
51. Letter from William B. CRANE 9 June 1862, on the Missouri River in the steamboat "Emilie," to his daughter Mary L. CRANE in Canton, Missouri.
52. Letter from William B. CRANE in August 1862, Salem, Oregon, to his parents in Clark County, Missouri.
53. Anonymous (1870), Married [Crane-McCully]. Pacific Christian Advocate (Portland, Oregon) 10 December 1870.
54. There are two versions of how Alice Jane McCULLLY met William Bradford CRANE. William B. Crane, their grandson, wrote in a 1981 manuscript (unpublished, property of Alice [CRANE] VERRET) that they met at the Oregon State Fair in Salem, when William admired her cooking. Ruth M. (CHURCH) ROBERTSON, a granddaughter of William and his first wife Mary WILLIAMS, wrote in 1978 (unpublished manuscript; copy at Oregon Historical Society, Portland) that they met in Portland at Alice Jane's graduation from St. Mary's Academy. Considering the dates and locations, either story is possible. However, recent correspondence with St. Mary's Academy casts doubt on the story of Alice graduating there; in fact, no record can be found of her attendance, although it seems certain she attended for at least a short time.
55. The story of the McCully wagon train trip is told in: S. R. Wilbur and S. H. Wilbur (2000), The McCully Train: Iowa to Oregon 1852. Gresham, Oregon: SYMBIOS. 198 pages.
56. Anonymous (1932), Mrs. Alice Crone (sic) dead. Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) 11 December 1932, Section 2, page 3.
57. William B. CRANE covered an amazing amount of ground, as he was involved in a remarkable number of projects, between 1862 and 1870. We've pieced this together from letters and newspaper articles, and plan to write a biography of him that will be much more detailed than is appropriate here.
58. Letter from Alice (McCULLY) CRANE 31 October 1875 from Virginia City, Nevada, to her step-daughter Mary (CRANE) CHURCH in San Francisco, describing the Virginia City fire.
59. Anonymous (1875), Virginia City in Ruins. "Territorial Enterprise" (Virginia City, Nevada), 27 October 1875
60. Anonymous (1879), Death of Mr. Crane. Oregonian (Portland, Oregon), 21 April 1879, pages 2-3.
61. James E. Crane's biographical sketch in Reference #1 refers to "Morgantown Academy." However, Justin McHenry, of the Morgantown (West Virginia) Public Library wrote in 2005: "From what I can gather, there was no school in existence called the Morgantown Academy. There was the Monongalia Academy, which was a boys institute The Virginia Legislature incorporated the Monongalia Academy in 1814 There were two departments,, the Classical and Mathematical Dept., which taught Latin, Greek, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, surveying, conic sections, natural philosophy, and history; and the other dept. was the English Department which embraced all the branches usually taught in an English course "
62. James E. CRANE was probably
sent to school at Thompson Academy in Thompson, Wyndham County,
Connecticut, because his aunt Julia [CRANE] HOVEY and family lived
in Thompson, and his cousin Frederica HOVEY was attending the
Academy during the same time period.
From an October 1851 Thompson Academy brochure: "This is
a new Institution, opened in May last, in the village of Thompson,
Ct. The Academy building is commodious, pleasantly located in
the centre of the village, and supplied with the most approved
school furniture. New Apparatus, for the illustration of Natural
Sciences, has lately been purchased.
"In establishing the school, the purpose has been to provide
special facilities for the prosecution of study, both in the common
and higher branches of education. It will continue to be the united
aim of the Trustees and Teachers to provide ample means for the
moral and intellectual training of those who are placed under
their care."
In October 1851 the Academy enrollment was 33 boys and 43 girls.
The courses taught (with tuition noted): Languages $5.50; English
Branches $4.50; Elementary English Branches $3.50; Drawing in
Pencil $2.00; Drawing in Crayon $3.00; Instructions on the Piano,
24 lessons $8.00
63. Reference #1 gives the marriage year of James E. CRANE and Ruth Jane GOODWIN as 1858, but Ruth was single and living with her parents on 18 August 1860, and was shown married to James in September 1860 (federal censuses).
64. Cemetery records: Oakland Cemetery, Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa; posted on the Lee County GenWeb website.
65. U. S. Federal Census 1840 - Indiana, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
66. U. S. Federal Census 1850 - East Deer, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
67. U. S. Federal Census 1860 - Winchester, Jackson Township, Clark County, Missouri
68. There are several records for James E. CRANE in various Missouri Civil War regiments. I haven't yet determined which apply to this James Crane.
69. W. S. Walker and W. W. Dunlap (1970), Marriage records of Clark County, Missouri. Volume II (1866-1884). Privately printed.
70. U. S. Federal Census 1850 - Clark County, Missouri
71. U. S. Federal Census 1870 - Fayette, Howard County, Missouri
72. City directories for Oakland, Alameda County, California 1875-1881.
73. Letter of 14 November 1864 from James Harvey Crane to Mrs. R. A. Nutman: "Theresa (Sara Theresa [BRADFORD] CRANE) is now in Alexandria (Missouri) at Mr. Schoonover's taking care of her daughter Alice who has barely survived a fit of typhoid fever. Elbert (James Elbert CRANE) is now in Keokuk taking care of his wife who also has typhoid fever. Her father died last week."
74. W. S. Walker and W. W. Dunlap (1970), Marriage records of Clark County, Missouri. Volume I (1837-1865). Privately printed.
75. U. S. Federal Census 1850 - Tioga, Tioga County, New York
76. U. S. Federal Census 1860 - Tioga, Tioga County, New York
77. U. S. Federal Census 1900 - Sacramento River Township, Shasta County, California
78. U. S. Federal Census 1870 - Alexandria, Clark County, Missouri
79. U. S. Federal Census 1880 - Oakland, Alameda County, California
80. Reminiscences of James William Schoonover, recorded by Stella Howard Crane in 1936.
81. If Thomas Schoonover died at and Mable, Kennett or Copper City, California, his grave may be lost. Many communities in that area were inundated by the waters of Shasta Lake after Shasta Dam was completed around 1944.
82. U. S. Federal Census 1910 - Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California
83. U. S. Federal Census 1920 - Berkeley, Alameda County, California
84. U. S. Federal Census 1930 - Berkeley, Alameda County, California
85. U. S. Federal Census 1910 - Oakland, Alameda County, California
86. Letter from William B. Crane from Owyhee County, Idaho, 21 March 1864, to his parents in Clark County, Missouri - "Here I am in a log cabin on one of the highest mountain peaks overlooking Snake River. Snow about 3 feet deep and it has been snowing all day. There are with me my brother Louis, and six husky, rough workers."
87. Letter from William B. Crane from Ruby City, Owyhee County, Idaho, 23 May 1864, to his sister-in-law Ella (WILLIAMS) CLUSKY in Canton, Missouri - "Louis & I are well, & we think prospects good. Uncle Charley is here."
88. Ada County, Idaho, Deed Book 2, page 56 - relating to "that certain ranch or farming claim now held and possessed by and occupied by Dr. C. H. Crane, said ranch being located in Ada County Idaho near Boise City located in Fords Gulch"
89. Shasta County, California, voter registrations for various years 1879 to 1912 posted on the Shasta County GenWeb website. Thomas SCHOONOVER first appeared in 1879, then in 1894 and 1896. The 1894 and 1896 voter lists noted that (as an identifying characteristic) he was missing his right hand. The 1896 list gave his occupation as bridge watchman.
90. The California Register for 1898 (part of an Ancestry.com database) describes Thomas SCHOONOVER as a resident of Mable, Shasta County, occupation bridge watchman.
91. There are many advertisements and news item in the "Owyhee Avalanche" (Silver City, Idaho Territory) in the 1860s and early 1870s related to the CRANE farm. For example, on 27 June 1868, this note appeared: "The First Fruits.-- On Thursday W. B. Crane received an installment of gooseberries, the first of the season, from his ranch near Boise City. Mr. Crane has expended a large amount of money on his ranch, but in return has the satisfaction of knowing that it is now one of the most beautiful and valuable in the Territory. The arrangement for irrigation is complete, water being conducted by means of ditches and hose to every portion of the cultivated grounds. There is a splendid young orchard of various kinds of fruit, among which are different varieties of apples, cherries, plums, etc. In two years hence the annual apple product is estimated at over five thousand boxes, which, of course, will be increased as the trees become older. There is also quite an extensive vinyard of the choicest grapes, besides gooseberries, strawberries, currants, etc., etc. Who says that Idaho can't raise her own luxuries?"
92. Letter of 14 November 1864 from James Harvey Crane to Mrs. R. A. Nutman: "We received a letter from my son Lewis in Idaho saying they are well. He had worked 7 months and saved $700 in gold in that time, was now going into a store. William (William B. CRANE) had sold some quartz that he had for 310 head of fat cattle. Had rented a store and was selling $2000 worth of meat a month."
93. Letter of 13 May 1872 from William B. Crane to his daughter Mary Louise Crane: "Your uncle Lewis my brother is dead. Tell Grand Ma he died in California. He had not been well for a good while - and they wrote me that he died of consumption."
94. The following is from the
"Owyhee Avalanche" (Silver City, Idaho Territory): 3
October 1868 -- "Homicide.-- The Boise City papers inform
us of a melancholy occurrence, resulting in the death of Dr. Charles
H. Crane, at his ranch near the city. On Friday morning, Sept.
25th, a young man, named Lewis Crane, who is a nephew of the Doctor,
and a hired man, had a quarrel while at work canning tomatoes.
Dr. Crane was endeavoring to quiet the disturbance, when his nephew
stabbed him in the side with a large butcher knife. He died before
medical help could reach him. Deceased was a most estimable gentleman
and good citizen. He leaves a wife and three children to mourn
his tragic end.
It seems that Lewis Crane was thrown from a horse about a year
ago, since which time he has shown frequent signs of insanity.
He was arrested and lodged in jail to await examination. When
the warrant was read to him his actions clearly demonstrated that
he was insane at the time of committing the fatal deed. In speaking
of the affair, he said that 'there might have been a man killed,
but that is nothing,' and that he would not hurt his uncle for
anything in the world. He is a brother of W. B. and C. W. Crane
of Silver. They received the sad intelligence, and, overcome with
grief, started for Boise City the same evening."
Other accounts of the incident were published in the "Idaho Tri-weekly Statesman" (Boise, Idaho) 26 September 1868, page 2, column 2; and in the "Semi-Weekly Democrat" (Boise, Idaho) 26 September 1868, page 3, column 1.
95. U. S. Federal Census 1870 - Waterloo, Clark County, Missouri
96. Alameda County, California, death record number 564: Charles W. CRANE died 13 March 1890, age 41 years 3 months and 10 days; of consumption.
97. From the "Owyhee Avalanche"
(Silver City, Idaho Territory) 3 August 1867 - "W. B. Crane
has sold his stock of merchandise and is closing up his business,
and desires to see his debtors -- as per notice elsewhere. Chas.
W. Crane is successor at the old stand, and will sell goods at
prices to suit the times. He has a large stock of staple goods
and many articles not found elsewhere in Camp."
The following advertisement for C. W. Crane ran every week from
3 August 1867 to 7 March 1868. It was identical to the old W.
B. Crane ad except for the heading "C. W. CRANE" and
a new date: Silver City, I. T., August 1, 1867.
C. W. CRANE
Wholesale and Retail
Dealer in Mine and Mill Supplies,
Consisting of
Groceries, Hardware, Iron and Steel, Stoves and
Tinware, Queensware, Glassware, Dry-Goods, Clothing
Hats and Caps, Boots, Shoes and Stationery
Which will be sold cheap to prompt customers
Silver City, I. T. August 1, 1867 C. W. Crane
98. From the "Owyhee Avalanche"
(Silver City, Idaho Territory) 14 March to 22 August 1868:
CLOSING OUT!
C. W. CRANE
Closing out his entire stock of
Merchandise at cost and freight
99. From the "Owyhee Avalanche"
(Silver City, Idaho Territory) 29 August 1868 to 20 March 1869:
Fruits and Vegetables!
A fresh supply
Constantly on hand
And
Received daily
By
Express and Fast Freight
C. W. Crane
100. From the "Owyhee Avalanche" (Silver City, Idaho Territory) 22 October 1870: "Charley Crane, formerly a merchant here, was in town last Saturday. He is farming in Boise Valley, and is now engaged in hauling vegetables to this market."
101. From the "Owyhee Avalanche" (Silver City, Idaho Territory) 29 July 1871: "Our old friend C. W. Crane, formerly a resident of Silver City, is now engaged in supplying this market with vegetables and other Boise Valley products. He now has a luxurious growth of whiskers and intends to marry this fall." NOTE: His marriage plans apparently fell through.
102. From Ada County, Idaho, Deed
Book 4 pages 778-779:
This indenture, made the eighth day of July in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred seventy-three between W. B. Crane
of Boise City, Idaho, party of the first part, and Asa A. McCully,
Salem, Oregon, party of the second part... for and in consideration
of the sum of ten thousand dollars, gold coin of the United States
of America... all that certain lot piece or parcel of land, situate,
lying and being in the Township no. 4 north County of Ada Territory
of Idaho, and bounded and particularly described as follows to
wit:
All that property known as Cranes Ranch, being the south half
of the southeast quarter of Sec. 27 & northwest 1/4 of the
northeast 1/4 and northeast 1/4 of the northwest 1/4 being 160
acres of land, together with all water rights etc. all being in
Section 34 Township no. 4 north, Range 2 east....
W. B. Crane
Signed sealed and delivered in presence of
Sol Hasbrouch
103. City directories for Oakland, California and San Francisco, California 1875-1880
104. W. V. T. Clark (1973), The
Journals of Alfred Doten 1849-1903. Reno: University of Nevada
Press.
16 Dec 1875 - "My San Francisco agent, Charles W Crane, arrived
and I saw him for first time this morning - He is over here on
a visit to his brother W B Crane at VA [Virginia City] - will
stop 3 or 4 days - I showed him all through..."
18 Dec 1875 - "[Charles] Crane called & we had a long
and pleasant business chat together - He visited the Belcher mine
with Virden this PM & when they started to come back from
the 160 foot level, he fainted on the cage from heat and excitement
when only 15 feet up from the station - They were lowered back
to the station where, by sprinking water on his face, he revived
sufficiently to come up to surface, after which he was all right
- He left for San F on 8 oclock train..."
5 Sep 1878 - "Charley Crane collected $100 from the Julia
M Co & gave it to me, minus his 10 pr cent for commission..."
105. U. S. Federal Census 1930 - Applewold, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania
106.The following information
is included on "World Family Trees" at Ancestry.com.
These "trees" are mostly done anonymously, with little
or no supporting references, and are rife with errors (much like
the Mormon ancestral files). I put this information here tentatively
(with parenthetical notes/questions) until I can find some confirmation.
Joseph Solomon BURPEE b. 14 Oct 1830 Huron County, Ohio (NOTE:
all Federal censuses put his birth date in 1831 or 1832); died
21 April 1916 Oakland, California; ca 1848 went to California,
then to Oregon by 1853; furniture store in Jacksonville, Oregon;
father Pearson BURPEE b. 14 Jan 1790 Chittenden, Rutland Co.,
VT; mother Cynthia BARTLETT b. 6 May 1804 New York; married 1st
on 9 June 1859 Irene Josephine (NOTE: she is identified on Oregon
deeds as "Jane," not Josephine) SPICER born Sandusky,
Ohio, died 9 August 1878; married 2nd Josephine CRANE 14 August
1879.
107. Jackson County, Oregon, tax rolls and land records. Joseph S. BURPEE appears from (at least) 1854 to 1863.
108. U. S. Federal Census 1860 - Jacksonville, Jackson County, Oregon
109. U. S. Federal Census 1870 - Springfield, Greene County, Missouri
110. Irene J. BURPEE's death was reported in 1878 in the "San Francisco Call," but I haven't yet seen the reference.
111. U. S. Federal Census 1900 - Oakland, Alameda County, California
112. U. S. Federal Census 1850 - Oxford Township, Erie County, Ohio
113. In the June 1860 census of Jacksonville, Oregon, Irene (SPICER) BURPEE, Lester SPICER, and Charles SPICER are all recorded. Their parents are still living in Erie County, Ohio, in August 1860. As Irene was only 18 years old in June 1860, it seems unlikely that she left her parents before, say, 1858. Her marriage to Joseph BURPEE so soon after arrival in Jacksonville may be coincidental, but Joseph reportedly came from the same area of Ohio as the Spicers, and it is possible that she was coming west to meet him.
114. Anonymous (1914), Past and Present of Alameda County, California. Volume II. S. J. Clarke Publishing Company - Page 56, a biographical sketch of Lester G. BURPEE.
115. The federal censuses are about evenly split in identifying Cary FULTON's birthplace as Pennsylvania or Ohio. Pennsylvania has seemed logical, since Cary's family occupied the same farm in Greene County, Pennsylvania, from at least 1850, when he was seven years old. A passage from S. P. Bates' 1888 "History of Greene County, Pennsylvania" (Chicago: Nelson, Rishforth & Co., pages 784-785) clarifies: "Samuel Fulton [Cary's father] was born January 10, 1818 on the farm where he and his family reside in Morgan Township (A)fter his second marriage [in 1838] (he) moved to Richland County, Ohio. Remaining there about nine years, he returned to Morgan Township"
116. U. S. Federal Census 1850 - Morgan Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania
117. U. S. Federal Census 1860 - Clarksville, Morgan Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania
118. Index to Civil War Pension Files, on Ancestry.com: Cary M. FULTON originally filed for his pension in California 14 September 1897; his widow Alice C. FULTON applied 7 February 1916. I have only seen the index, not the actual files.
119. U. S. Federal Census 1870 - Morgan Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania
120. U. S. Federal Census 1920 - Oakland, Alameda County, California
121. U. S. Federal Census 1930 - Piedmont, Alameda County, California
122. I confirmed that Ellen BRADFORD's
maiden name was MARTIN from the California State death records
of her three sons. A marriage date of 1 January 1875 in Colusa,
California, is found on the internet, without documentation. It
seems correct in relation to where the married couple were living
in 1880, and when their first child was born, but I haven't found
any source for the record. The (unsourced) internet information
that her parents were William David MARTIN and Minerva Faye LOYD
seems to be borne out by the 1860 and 1870 censuses of Kimshew,
Butte County, California. In 1860, William D.(born Tennessee ca
1828) and Minerva Martin were living there, with five childen.
Ellen was not named, but Susan Martin was the correct age, and
was born in Arkansas, as later census records for Ellen show.
She had a 6 year old brother named James, born Arkansas, and a
2 year old brother John, born California. In the 4 August 1870
Kimshew census, James Martin, 16, and Ellen Martin, 14, both born
Arkansas, are shown in the household of Isaac and Fannie McBride.
On 8 August 1870, James and Ellen are in the household of David
and Nancy Martin at Princeton, Colusa County, California, along
with younger brother John Martin. Apparently, William and Minerva
Martin died between 1860 and 1870, and their children were first
taken in my a family in Kimshew (possibly Ellen's older married
sister?), and then by David Martin, who was probably William Martin's
brother (born Tennessee ca 1828).
It appears that the (unsourced) internet information is incorrect
that, after Ellen and George Bradford divorced, she married 2nd
John W. BIRD. According to the 1900 census, Ellen Bird was not
born until January 1869 (although she was born in Arkansas), her
father was reportedly born in Ohio (not Tennessee), and her mother
in Illinois (not Alabama).
123. U. S. Federal Census 1850 - Pleasant Township, Wabash County, Indiana.
124. U. S. Federal Census 1870 - Placerville, El Dorado County, California.
125. U. S. Federal Census 1880 - Lake Valley, El Dorado County, California.
126. U. S. Federal Census 1900 - Township 3, Lake County, California.
127. U. S. Federal Census 1910 - Upper Lake, Lake County, California.
128. U. S. Federal Census 1920 - Upper Lake, Lake County, California.
129. Burial information, Upper Lake Cemetery, Lake County, California.
130. U. S. Federal Census 1860 - Marysville, Yuba County, California.
131. U. S. Federal Census 1880 - Cloverdale, Sonoma County, California.
132. William Simpson Lincoln. 1942. Our kin: descendants of Joshua Lincoln and Elizabeth Seekins Lincon of Taunton, Massachusett. Olympia, WA: Olympia News. NOTES: The BRADFORD-HIGH family connection is described on pages 50-57. A number of the HIGH vital records refer to events at "Davis, California." Actually, those events occurred at Dorris, Siskiyou County, California.
133. Civil War personnel databases on Ancestry.com
134. The Yolo County, California, records of the HIGH family mention Capay, Cottonwood, and Dunningan. All those places are within a few miles of one another, and it may be that all three names refer to the same place; i. e., Cottonwood, California, where the High farm was located, and where the family was censused in August 1870.
135. U. S. Federal Census 1870 - Cottonwood, Yolo County, California.
136. U. S. Federal Census 1880 - Ashland, Jackson County, Oregon.
137. U. S. Federal Census 1900 - Lake Township, Siskiyou County, California.
138. U. S. Federal Census 1910 - Lake Township, Siskiyou County, California.
139. U. S. Federal Census 1920 - Lake Township, Siskiyou County, California.
140. U. S. Federal Census 1930 - Yreka, Siskiyou County, California.
141. U. S. Federal Census 1900 - Encinitas, San Diego County, California.
142. U. S. Federal Census 1910 - Miramonte, Los Angeles County, California.
143. U. S. Federal Census 1920 - Miramonte, Los Angeles County, California.
144. U. S. Federal Census 1930 - El Cajon, San Diego County, California.
145. California death records database at Ancestry.com
146. I can find no documented information on Josephine Harrison BRADFORD. According to unsourced information on internet "family trees" she was born 29 October 1854; married Valette MACKIN March 1871; and died 22 March 1877. At the time of the reported marriage, her family was living near Vacaville, Solano County, California. I haven''t found any Mackins in the area.
147. U. S. Federal Census 1920 - San Diego, San Diego County, California.
148. U. S. Federal Census 1880 - Tehama Township, Tehama County, California.
149. U. S. Federal Census 1860 - Palmyra, Marion County, Missouri.
150. U. S. Federal Census 1870 - Spring Valley, Colusa County, California.
151. U. S. Federal Census 1900 - Oceanside, San Diego County, California.
152. U. S. Federal Census 1910 - San Diego, San Diego County, California.
153. U. S. Federal Census 1930 - San Diego, San Diego County, California.
154. U. S. Federal Census 1880 - Spring Valley, Colusa County, California
155. U. S. Federal Census 1900 - College City, Colusa County, California.
156. Margaret Wohlfrom's maiden name, STEWART, was found in the California death records for a number of her children. Later census records for her husband, Joseph Wohlfrom, give his birthplace as Germany, but up to 1900 he was listed as born in France. The confusion arises because he was born in Alsace-Lorraine, a part of France that was annexed by Germany in 1871 following the Franco-Prussian War. It was given back to France at the end of the World War I, with the Treaty of Versailles of 1919. Nazi Germany claimed it again in 1940, but it permanently became part of France again in 1945 after World War II.
157. U. S. Federal Census 1910 - Arbuckle, Colusa County, California.
158. U. S. Federal Census 1920 - Arbuckle, Colusa County, California.
159. U. S. Federal Census 1900 - Spokane, Spokane County, Washington.
160. U. S. Federal Census 1910 - Spokane, Spokane County, Washington.
161. U. S. Federal Census 1870 - Canton, Lewis County, Missouri
162. Letter from Mary (CRANE) CHURCH to her brother Clarence CRANE, 20 February 1928, regarding her marriage to Samuel W. CHURCH: Six years from the time I first met Sam (and I was only thirteen) (ca 1875) I was married to him We were married for twenty happy years and I have live twenty-seven without him. Life cheated both Papa and Sam of their best years. One was taken away at the age of forty-two, the other at forty-four. And my daughters are about those ages, or soon will be, and how young they seem to me."
163. U. S. Federal Census 1860 - Harrisburg, Linn County, Oregon
164. U. S. Federal Census 1870 - Salem, Marion County, Oregon
165. Portland, Oregon, business directories 1890-1901.
166. Obituary from unidentified source, November 1901: "Samuel W. Church, well known resident of Portland, Oregon, died at his residence on the SE corner of 12th and Clay. He was ill for seven weeks with an obscure heart problem. An autopsy revealed malignant endocarditis, a diseased condition of the heart."
167. Obituary, Mrs. Mary L. Church. "Oregonian" (Portland, Oregon), 29 September 1949, p. 7
168. Family tradition is that Clarence CRANE was named after Clarence KING, first director of the U. S. Geological Survey. Clarence's father, William Bradford CRANE, knew King as early as October 1867, when King visited Silver City, Idaho (stagecoach arrival records), and in November 1867 they were working together on a copper mine venture (letter from King to W. B. Crane 25 November 1867), so family tradition may be accurate.
169. W. H. King, editor (1904), History of Homeopathy and its institutions in America. New York: Lewis Publishing Company. A biographical sketch of Clarence CRANE appears in Volume IV, page 175. Biographical information on Stella (HOWARD) CRANE is also in Volume IV, page 191.
170. The founding of the Burrage Hospital for Crippled Children was announced in the "New York Times" 2 August 1901: "Home for Crippled Children. Boston Man will build one on an island leased from Harvard University," Clarence Crane's appointment as superintendent was noted in a news item, "Oregon physician receives important appointment," which appeared in a so far unidentified newspaper (probably "The Oregonian").
171. U. S. Federal Census 1920 - Natick, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
172. U. S. Federal Census 1930 - Natick, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
173. "Dr. Crane called by death," obituary in the "Humboldt Beacon and Standard" (Fortuna, California), 17 April 1942.
174. "Funeral services for 'Grandma' Crane," in the "Enterprise" (Ferndale, California), ca 20 November 1968.
175. Biographical sketch of Percy Pope DABNEY on page 149, "History of the bench and bar in Oregon" (Portland, Oregon, 1910: Historical Publishing Company).
176. Obituary, "Pope (sic) P. Dabney," Oregonian (Portland, Oregon), 20 March 1935, page 20.
177. Biographical sketch of William B. Crane Jr. on page 401, in: F. Lockley (1928), History of the Columbia River Valley (Chicago, Illinois: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company).
178. The 1900 federal census for San Francisco, California, provided Edward THURMAN's birth month and year. Censuses in 1900, 1910 (Eden, Alameda County, California) and 1920 agree that his father was born in Virginia and his mother in Kentucky.
179. U. S. Federal Census 1910 - Woodland, Yolo County, California
180. U. S. Federal Census 1920 - Silveyville, Solano County, California
181. U. S. Federal Census 1930 - San Francisco, San Francisco County, California
182. U. S. Federal Census 1930 - Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
183. According to the federal censuses in 1900, 1920 and 1930, Margaret (ELLIOTT) SCHOONOVER's father was born in Pennsylvania, and her mother in Ohio. I haven't found any families in earlier censuses that match that description.
184. Shasta County, California, voter registrations for various years 1879 to 1912 posted on the Shasta County GenWeb website. Thomas SCHOONOVER first appeared in 1879, then in 1894 and 1896. The 1894 and 1896 voter lists noted that (as an identifying characteristic) he was missing his right hand. The 1896 list gave his occupation as bridge watchman.
185. The California Register for 1898 (part of an Ancestry.com database) describes Thomas SCHOONOVER as a resident of Mable, Shasta County, occupation bridge watchman.
186. U. S. Federal Census 1920 - Kennett, Shasta County, California
187. I have been unable to locate any of the George B. SCHOONOVER family in the 1910 censuses, and in 1920 Margaret SCHOONOVER is listed as head of household and George could not be located. The 1912 Shasta County voter registrations show George registered at Antler in Delta Precinct and Margaret in Redding, California. (Perhaps Margaret was living in town because of their school age children.). George and Margaret were living together at the time of the 1930 census.
188. U. S. Federal Census 1930 - Squaw Valley, Siskiyou County, California
189. U. S. Federal Census 1930 - Colfax, Placer County, California. Charles E. SCHOONOVER was reportedly age 37 when first married. His wife Mame was first married at age 21, indicating she had married previously ca 1887.
190. U. S. Federal Census 1920 - Colfax, Placer County, California
191. U. S. Federal Census 1880 - Scotts Valley, Siskiyou County, California
192. U. S. Federal Census 1910 - Shasta River Arm, Shasta County, California
193. U. S. Federal Census 1920 - Alameda, Alameda County, California
194. Family letter from Stella (HOWARD) CRANE 21 April 1936: "(In Redding) Will Schoonover came for Clarence and me and took us out to Copper City where Clarence's father developed a mine and where he lived for awhile as a boy."
195. "The History of Eljer,
Inc." taken from the company website: http://www.eljer.com/history.htm
Eljer, Inc., is still in business making toilets and toilet components.
196. I haven't been able to positively trace the parents of Ellen (FEARN) CRANE prior to the June 1900 federal census, when they were living in Oakland, Alameda County, California. Both John FEARN and his wife Sarah were reportedly born in England, as was their son John FEARN, all emigrating to the United States in 1874. In the 1880 census of Hedgeville, Berkeley County, West Virginia, there is a family consisting of three people with the same names and ages as given in the 1900 census for Ellen's family. However, the elder John FEARN (spelled FERIN in the census) was reportedly born in Holland, not England. Also, he was described as a cabinet maker in 1880, but Ellen's father and brother were reportedly physicians in 1900.
197. U. S. Federal Census 1910 - Cameron, Marshall County, West Virginia
198. U. S. Federal Census 1920 - New Trier, Cook County, Illinois
199. Eljer Plumbingware, Inc. (Dallas, Texas) press release 1 April 2004, "Company that invented the vitreous china tank turns 100:" "Eljer remained under the ownership and management of the Crane family until founder Raymond Crane died in 1953."
200. "Divorced wife of R. H. Craig accused of attempt to steal own son," Oakland Tribune 13 October 1912.
201. U. S. Federal Census 1860 - Fairfield, Marion County, Oregon
202. U. S. Federal Census 1870 -Buenaventura, Santa Barbara County, California
203. U. S. Federal Census 1880 - Plano, Tulare County, California
204. From "Past and Present of Alameda County, California" (1914, S. J. Clarke Publishing Company), page 56: "In 1883, he {Lester BURPEE) returned to Oakland and here secured a position as clerk in the office of the deputy city marshal, while at the end of a year he became deputy in the office of the city treasurer, discharging the duties of the latter position for six months. Subsequently he was employed as bookkeeper in several mercantile houses until 1886, in which year he entered the First National Bank as bookkeeper, afterward serving as exchange clerk, receiving teller and cashier in that institution. In 1906 he was elected vice President and in that position has since remained an important factor in the control and management of the bank, being also a director. He likewise acts as vice president and director of the First Trust & Savings Bank, which is affiliated with the First National Bank. His rise in financial circles is further attested by the fact that he is now serving as vice president of the Oakland Clearing House, while formerly he was a director of the People's Water Company and the New Oakland Hotel."
205. Helen (GROVER) BURPEE birthdate and place are shown on ship passenger manifests in 1925 and 1937 (Ancestry.com database).
206. U. S. Federal Census 1880 - Sutter Creek, Amador County, California
207. U. S. Federal Census 1900 - Yuba City, Sutter County, California
208. U. S. Federal Census 1920 (overseas military) - Miesenheim, Germany. Clarence W. DODGE shown as a Captain in the Marine Corps.
209. F. C. Merritt (1928), History of Alameda County, California (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Company) -biographical sketch of Burton Jackson WYMAN on page 106.
210. U. S. Federal Census 1910 - Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon.
211. U. S. Federal Census 1900 - Sacramento, Sacramento County, California.
212. U. S. Federal Census 1910 - Sacramento, Sacramento County, California.
213. U. S. Federal Census 1880 - Hickory Point township, Macon County, Illinois.
214. U. S. Federal Census 1900 - Decatur, Macon County, Illinois
215. Illinois marriage database at Ancestry.com
216. U. S. Federal Census 1920 - Klamath Falls, Klamath County, Oregon.
217. U. S. Federal Census 1930 - Klamath Falls, Klamath County, Oregon.
218. U. S. Federal Census 1900 - Grand Island, Colusa County, California.
219. U. S. Federal Census 1930 - Sacramento, Sacramento County, California.
220. U. S. Federal Census 1920 - Princeton, Colusa County, California.
221. U. S. Federal Census 1920 - Ventura, Ventura County, California.
222. U. S. Federal Census 1930 - Dorris, Siskiyou County, California.
223. U. S. Federal Census 1920 - Happy Camp, Siskiyou County, California.
224. U. S. Federal Census 1930 - Happy Camp, Siskiyou County, California.
225. U. S. Federal Census 1930 - Bellview, Jackson County, Oregon.
226. U. S. Federal Census 1900 - Hot Spring township, Modoc County, California.
227. One of the "world family tree" sites on the Internet identifies Hazel WHITE's mother as Florence "ORTLEY." I haven't found any information to support that assertion. Reportedly, Florence White was born in Nevada in January 1872, but there are no Nevada names for that period very similar to "Ortley." One possibility is "Ortelli," of which there are Nevada families, but I can't identify Florence in any of them.
228. U. S. Federal Census 1900 - San Jose, Santa Clara County, California.
229. U. S. Federal Census 1920 - Topsy, Klamath County, Oregon.
230. U. S. Federal Census 1930 - Topsy, Klamath County, Oregon.
231. Oregon death index
232. U. S. Federal Census 1910 - San Luis Rey, San Diego County, California.
233. Death notice San Diego (California) "Union," 8 February 1910 - death of Bert Connell Bashore.
234. U. S. Federal Census 1900 - Salt Lake precinct, Polk County, Oregon.
235. U. S. Federal Census 1910 - Salem, Marion County, Oregon.
236. U. S. Federal Census 1920 - El Centro, Imperial County, California.
237. U. S. Federal Census 1930 - La Mesa, San Diego County, California.
238. Obituary, Wilmer "Dick" Wohlfrom Bradford: Daily Democrat (Woodland, California), Friday 19 December 2003.
239. Obituary, Mildred Bradford: Daily Democrat (Woodland, California), 16 and 17 August 2006.
240. U. S. Federal Census 1930 - Williams, Colusa County, California.
241. Social Security Death Index
242. U. S. Federal Census 1930
- Arbuckle, Colusa County, California.