- Rev. George Jay CRANDALL, son
of Jared B. and Alzina MAXSON CRANDALL, was
- born in Brookfield, N.Y., Aug. 12,
1839, and died in his 66th year at his home in Milton Junction,
Wis., July 20, 1905. He was converted at about ten years of age,
joined the Second Seventh-day Baptist Church of Brookfield, and,
when quite young, decided upon the Gospel Ministry as his life
work. This work he began in July, 1862, at Watson, N.Y., and
continued until within two or three weeks of his death; forty
three years of continuous, earnest, successful work for the Master
whom he loved with unswerving devotion. During this time, after
Watson, he served the churches at West Genesee and Richburg,
N.Y., West Hallock, Ill., Harvard and North Loup, Neb., Ashaway,
R.I., and Milton Junction, Wis. in the last of which he had been
the beloved pastor for six years. If the details of this long
period of service could be written, the sermons preached, prayer-meetings
held, pastoral visits made, converts baptized, funerals attended,
marriages solemnized, etc., it would not only give something
of an estimate of the labor performed by this faithful servant
of God, it would help, also, to show why he was held in such
reverent affection by the people wherever he lived. He was always
tremendously in earnest, appealing to a quickened conscience
and candid judgment; and, with him, there was no compromise upon
its decrees. In all his work as a minister he was sympathetically
and ably seconded by his wife, Elizabeth R. MAXSON, to
whom he was married June 5, 1862. Although an invalid for many
years, her cheerful faith has ever been an inspiration, and she
has not failed to find very many ways in which to be a true,
faithful help-mate. To them were born six children, four of whom
remain to care lovingly and tenderly for the mother. In the death
of Eld. CRANDALL out people have lost another of our valiant
standard bearers, always at his post, ever undaunted, with a
firm unfaltering faith in the goodness and power of God, and
of the final triumph of his truth.
- Mrs. L. A. PLATTS, Chairman
of the Committee
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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