Jesse Crane (1779 - abt. 1862)

Born 9 May 1779 in Mansfield, CT

Ancestors

Husband of Rhoda (Abbe) Crane — married 16 Sep 1798 in Mansfield, Connecticut

Descendants

Died about 7 Apr 1862 at about age 82 in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Jesse Crane or Crain Was born in Mansfield, Tolland, Connecticut on 9 May 1779^[1]. He passed away in April, 1862.^[2] The findagrave photo has a date of April 2. An earlier copy of the inscription from 1934 has April 7.^[3]. The cemetery stones are of white marble and are quite weathered.

In the Pre-1700 badge quiz on WikiTree, it is pointed out that cemetery stones are not totally reliable.

Jesse Crane was a farmer and later (about 1830) in the butchering in Willimantic, Connecticut.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Dimock, Susan W., Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths from the Records of the Town and Churches in Mansfield, Connecticut 1703-1850, New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1898
2. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #67905709
3. ↑ Cemetery Inscriptions, 807-10, Spring Hill Cemetery, copied October, 15, 1934
4. ↑ Abbe. Cleveland and Josephine Genung Nichols, Abbe-Abbey Genealogy in Memory of John Abbe and his Descendants, New Haven, Conn., The Tuttle Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1916 p. 147

• Source: Crane, Ellery Bicknell. Genealogy of the Crane Family. Worcester, MA: Unknown, 1900. Pages 245-246.

• Source: Storrs, Charles, The Storrs Family, Privately Printed, New York, 1886. Copy online. p360

• Source: Dimock, Susan W., Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths from the Records of the Town and Churches in Mansfield, Connecticut 1703-1850, New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1898

• Source: Cemetery Inscriptions, 807-10, Spring Hill Cemetery, copied October, 15, 1934. Repository: Connecticut State Library, Hartford. Copy also online:

[Spring Hill Cemetery Inscriptions]