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
↑ 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
↑ Cemetery Inscriptions, 807-10, Spring Hill Cemetery, copied October, 15, 1934
↑ 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:
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