Alexander Wills Crain (1847 - 1921)

Born 10 Mar 1847 in Pennsylvania

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Died 23 Jun 1921 at age 74 in Wewoka, Seminole, Oklahoma, United States

Biography

Alexander is the son of Joseph, son of Richard, son of Joseph, son of Capt. Ambrose

Alexander was a son of Dr. Joseph and Rebecca Gibson (Wills) Crain. His g-grandfather was Ambrose Crain, a Capt. in the N.J. Reg't during the Revolutionary War.

Alexander attended the State College of Pennsylvania, and in 1872 came west to the Creek nation in Indian Terriory. In 1880 at Sasakwa he married Lucy Brown, a half-blood Seminole and a sister of Gov. John F. Brown. They had three children, Anna, Allan and Ambrose.

Alexander served as Treasurer of the OK Seminole Nation for several years. He owned a farm in the Northwestern part of Seminole county near the Canadian River. Source: "A STANDARD HISTORY OF OKLAHOMA, V. 5", 1916, Joseph B. Thoburn.

Sources

The Whitehills in America (Heroes and Heroines) written and edited by Samuel Milliken Whitehill, Jr., Patricia Whitehill Halter, and Cassius Furman Whitehill, Jr. (Family Heritage Publishers) p. 79

"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4H4-QBC : 12 April 2016), Alx W Crain in household of Joseph Crain, Silver Spring, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States; citing family 85, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFCS-584 : 14 December 2017), Alexander Crane in entry for Agness Crane, 1860.

"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLQ7-7NF : accessed 22 April 2018), Alaxander Crain, Brown, Seminole, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 180, sheet 1A, family 109, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1274; FHL microfilm 1,375,287.

"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJMG-M4B : accessed 22 April 2018), Alexander W Crain, Econtuchka, Seminole, Oklahoma, United States; citing ED 244, sheet 1A, line 35, family 6, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1471; FHL microfilm 1,821,471.

• "Oklahoma Applications for Allotment, Five Civilized Tribes, 1899-1907"
• "United States Census, 1910"
• "United States Census, 1920"
• "Find A Grave"