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- At her home in Milton Junction, Wis.,
June 9, 1908, of pneumonia, Mrs. Elizabeth
- Ann MAXSON CRANDALL,
widow of the late George J. CRANDALL, in the sixty-ninth
year of her age.
- Mrs. CRANDALL was the daughter
of Josiah Bliss CHAMPLIN and Fanny
- TALLETT,
and was born in Sangerfield, N.Y., July 11, 1839. While she was
an infant, her mother died, and although her father lived for
many years, she was taken into the family of John and Almira
MAXSON, of Brookfield, N.Y., with whom she lived till
her marriage to the Rev. Mr. CRANDALL in 1862, when she
removed with him to Watson, N.Y., where he began his work as
a minister. She was baptized in early young womanhood by the
Rev. J. M. TODD and united with the Second Brookfield
Seventh-day Baptist Church. She was educated in the Brookfield
Academy and at DeRuyter Institute. The Rev. and Mrs. CRANDALL
were the parents of six children: Calvin E., who is living near
Milton, Wis., Herbert L., who died in young manhood, Myra A.,
Now. Mrs. G. L. HUTCHINS, of North Loup, Neb., Nathan
H. who died in infancy, Linton B., a teacher in North Plainfield,
N.J., and Dr. Grace I., a practicing physician at Milton Junction,
Wis.
- Though for many years an invalid on
account of rheumatism and recently somewhat
- feeble, Mrs. CRANDALL by her
loving interest in others and by the sweet graces of her life
endeared herself to all her friends. After her husband's death
in 1905, she lived with her daughter, Dr. Grace CRANDALL,
who with others of her children ministered to her in her last
illness.
- Funeral services were held at the Seventh-day
Baptist church in Milton Junction, Wis.,
- June 11, 1908, conducted by President
William C. Daland and the Rev. Dr. Lewis A. Platts. Interment
was made at Milton Junction. W. C. D. [Vol. 64, No. 25, p.
796]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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