Bernice Crane

Bernice married Joanna Axtell on 10 Mar 1763. Joanna was born on 31 Mar 1746. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Benjamin married Alinda Briggs on 18 May 1799. Alinda (daughter of Abiel Briggs and Dyer Paull) was born on 18 May 1779. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Barnabas married Hannah Crane on 20 Apr 1806 in Berkley, Bristol County, Massachusetts. Hannah was born on 26 Mar 1783 in Berkley, Bristol County, Massachusetts; died on 07 Apr 1825. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Hannah Briggs on 31 Mar 1808. Hannah (daughter of Abiel Briggs and Dyer Paull) was born on 08 Apr 1785; died in 1813. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Sarah Crane on 01 Sep 1814. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Barnabas married Alinda Briggs in 1834. Alinda (daughter of Thomas Briggs and Abigail Gregg) was born on 12 Nov 1816 in Bristol, Ontario County, New York; died on 30 Jul 1880 in Sharon Center, Medina County, Ohio; was buried in Sharon Center Cemetery, Sharon, Medina County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joseph married Olive Chatfield on 11 Dec 1836 in Sharon Twp, Medina County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Louisa Maria Briggs. Louisa (daughter of Thomas Briggs and Abigail Gregg) was born on 29 Jan 1815 in East Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York; died in 1895. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lucy married Seneca Totman in 1867. Seneca (son of Ira Totman and Nancy Gregg) was born in 1845; died in 1887; was buried in Sharon Center Cemetery, Sharon, Medina County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Emma married Henry Clay Trafton about 1876. Henry (son of John W. Trafton and Eliza A. Totman) was born on 17 Mar 1849 in Bristol, Ontario County, New York; died on 7 Jun 1917 in Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York; was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From "History of Greene County, Missouri," St. Louis: Western Historical Company, 1883.

This gentleman is the son of Joseph W. and Olive (Chatfield) Crane, and was born in Medina County, Ohio, May 15, 1840. His father emigrated from Massachusetts to Ohio about the year of 1820, and settled in Sharon township of said county. His mother was a native of New York, but married in Ohio. They had nine children, viz.: Tryphena C., Warren C., Corydon G., Mary, Charles A., Martha, Henry L., Willis G., and Etta M., all of whom are living save Corydon, who died in 1862 in Ohio, aged eighteen. Tryphena C. is the wife of J. F. G. Bentley, the leading merchant and banker of Ash Grove; Charles A. is engaged in the lumber business at same place; Willis G. is a harness-maker at same place; Etta M. is the wife of J. W. B. Appleby, cashier of the bank and salesman for J. F. G. Bentley. Warren C. Crane, the subject of this notice, lived in Ohio until 1854. He then engaged in the photographing business for two years. Then, with a cousin, he took a drove of five hundred sheep to Minnesota where he lived for about two years, when he came to Springfield, Missouri. He returned to Ohio, and with his brother, Charles A., brought out a drove of fifteen hundred sheep, being ninety days upon the road. After selling his sheep he went out to Chetopa, Kansas, and sold groceries for about a year. In 1870 he came to Ash Grove and sold goods for J. F. G. Bentley for nine years. In 1879 he embarked in business for himself at Ash Grove, selling furniture, agricultural implements, and sewing machines, in which he had no competition. He was married January 20, 1866, to Miss Lucy Wright, of Dade county, Mo. This union has been blest with one child, Mabel Olive,
born November 29, 1876. Mr. Crane is regarded as one of Ash Grove's most enterprising business men, and a thorough gentleman.

Family/Spouse: Thomas G. Briggs. Thomas (son of Daniel Gregg Briggs and Rhoda Ann Pratt) was born on 02 Apr 1841 in Sharon Twp, Medina County, Ohio; died on 16 Jun 1914 in Sharon Twp, Medina County, Ohio; was buried in Sharon Center Cemetery, Sharon, Medina County, Ohio. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In pursuit of that occupation to which he became accustomed in
earliest youth in Ohio, Mr. Crane, in 1883, settled in Ventura County,
where he has realized many of his ambitious expectations. He was born
in Sharon Township, Medina County, Ohio, July 7, 1835. His paternal
ancestors were all born and reared in or near Deighton, Mass., where
the original ancestor, from England, one Henry Crane, settled in 1654.
On the maternal side, Louisa (Briggs) Crane was born in Ontario
County, N. Y., in 1815, a daughter of Thomas Briggs, also a native of
Massachusetts. Her brother, George G. Briggs, the pioneer fruit man of
California, in 1861 became the owner of the Rancho Santa Paula y
Saticoy, in Ventura County, and said rancho was subdivided and thrown
open for settlement by him. In 1855 Mr. Crane came to California and
assisted his uncle, George G. Briggs, in putting out two hundred acres
of orchard, in addition to the already large orchard then just
bearing, near Marysville. He also assisted him in putting out an
orchard of one hundred acres near Oroville, and one of two hundred
acres on the Sacramento river near Knights Landing. Remaining in
California something over three years, he then returned to his native
place in Ohio, married and purchased a farm upon which he resided for
ten years, when, selling his farm, he removed to Cass county, Mo. Six
years later he removed to Denver, Colo., where he engaged in the
wholesale fruit business, shipping from forty to fifty carloads a year
from Marysville and Sacramento.
The drought in California of 1877 decided him to quit the fruit
business and go to the Black Hills of Dakota, the then new mining
region. There, in company with others, he was successful in locating
and developing what is known as the Trojan group of mines, near
Deadwood, which he and his partners sold in 1883 for $10o,000. In the
same year he removed with his family to Saticoy, Ventura County,
purchased and settled upon the ranch he now (1902) occupies. This land
was at once utilized for the raising of lima beans and the setting out
of walnut trees. Today there is a fine bearing orchard of Santa
Barbara soft shell walnuts covering fifty acres. Some apricots also
are raised on the ranch.
No one has shown more enthusiasm than Mr. Crane in promoting the
interests of his neighborhood. To further the cause of the walnut
growers he assisted in the organization of the Saticoy Walnut Growers'
Association. He was one of tile first stockholders in the People's
Lumber Company, and has also been vitally interested in the subject of
water supply. In addition to his home ranch he owns eighty acres of
land west of Pasadena, which can be developed into grape land.
Although a Democrat in politics and a stanch upholder of his party, he
has never cared for office and has never been a candidate but once,
when he was nominated for supervisor. His kindly and agreeable
personality has won for him many friends throughout Ventura county. In
1859 he married Adalina Huntley, who was born in Granger township,
Medina County, Ohio, in 1836. They are the parents of two children,
namely: Amy, who is the wife of E. E. Huntley, of Saticoy; and Abbie,
wife of L. W. Andrews, an attorney of Los Angeles.

Minnie married Raymond S. Lee in 1902. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ada married James Hugh Cameron on 29 Oct 1902 in Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York. James was born in 1873; died in 1945 in Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]