Anna Kathrine (Olson) Crandall (1890 - 1960)

Born 9 Jan 1890 in Pleasant Prairie, Eddy County, North Dakota

Ancestors

Wife of Emmett Geroge Crandall — married 1916 in Eddy County, North Dakota

Died 11 May 1960 at age 70 in Erie, Whiteside Co., Illinois

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Biography

Anna was a seamstress before she married Emmett. Emmett's father, who had a homestead near the Olson farm, was, according to family tradition, part Native American. According to the U.S. Census information, Emmett's father was born in the state of New York, while his mother, Emeline, was born in Germany. Anna's daughter, Esther, remembered that her mother was a tall, stately woman.

Anna and Emmett farmed in North Dakota five or six years before they moved to Erie, Illinois, when Esther was about three years old and LeRoy was only an infant. In Erie, they farmed, raised their children, and lived out their lives.

At the age of seventy, Anna was the victim of a terrible accident. At 11:00 a.m. on the 11th of May, 1960, the car she was driving was hit by a freight train as Anna attempted to cross the tracks. She died instantly.

Sources

• "This is My Letter to My Children," by Lloyd Olson, 1984.
• Personal knowledge of her daughter, Esther, and her nephew, Carroll Dahl.
• Additional Source: "Reflections of Our Lives in the Brantford, North Dakota, Community," compiled by Leone Williams Cudworth.
• Death and place of death: Dead certificate, issued by the Whiteside County Clerk.