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Crane, Michael Quiggle

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15 May 1787

Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Antes Chapter, Early Vital Records of Pennsylvania,151; Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Antes Chapter, Family and Bible Records, Lycoming Co., Pa., 65; Ross and Evans, Henderson County Illinois Cemeteries, 1:1; Allaman, “Joseph Smith’s Visits to Henderson County,” 49.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Antes Chapter. Early Vital Records of Pennsylvania. Jersey Shore, PA: By the author, 1969.

Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Antes Chapter. Family and Bible Records, Lycoming Co., Pa. Jersey Shore, PA: By the author, 1965.

Ross, Virgina, and Jane Evans. Henderson County Illinois Cemeteries. 2 vols. Gladstone, IL: By the authors, 1979–1981.

Allaman, John Lee. “Joseph Smith’s Visits to Henderson County.” Western Illinois Regional Studies 8, no. 1 (Spring 1985): 46–55.

–7 Nov. 1847.

Allaman, “Joseph Smith’s Visits to Henderson County,” 49; Ross and Evans, Henderson County Illinois Cemeteries, 1:1; Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Antes Chapter, Family and Bible Records, Lycoming Co., Pa., 65.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Allaman, John Lee. “Joseph Smith’s Visits to Henderson County.” Western Illinois Regional Studies 8, no. 1 (Spring 1985): 46–55.

Ross, Virgina, and Jane Evans. Henderson County Illinois Cemeteries. 2 vols. Gladstone, IL: By the authors, 1979–1981.

Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Antes Chapter. Family and Bible Records, Lycoming Co., Pa. Jersey Shore, PA: By the author, 1965.

Farmer, land speculator.

Allaman, “Joseph Smith’s Visits to Henderson County,” 49; Gordon and Bateman, History of Henderson County, 782; Rowley, “Mormon Experience in the Wisconsin Pineries,” 127.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Allaman, John Lee. “Joseph Smith’s Visits to Henderson County.” Western Illinois Regional Studies 8, no. 1 (Spring 1985): 46–55.

Gordon, James W., and Newton Bateman. History of Henderson County. Chicago: Munsell Publishing, 1911.

Rowley, Dennis. “The Mormon Experience in the Wisconsin Pineries, 1841–1845.” BYU Studies 32, nos. 1 and 2 (1992): 119–148.

Born in what later became Wayne Township, Lycoming Co., Pennsylvania.

Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Antes Chapter, Early Vital Records of Pennsylvania, 155; Allaman, “Joseph Smith’s Visits to Henderson County,” 49.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Antes Chapter. Early Vital Records of Pennsylvania. Jersey Shore, PA: By the author, 1969.

Allaman, John Lee. “Joseph Smith’s Visits to Henderson County.” Western Illinois Regional Studies 8, no. 1 (Spring 1985): 46–55.

Son of George Washington Crane and Catherine Quiggle.

Meginness, History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, 1116; Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Antes Chapter, Early Vital Records of Pennsylvania, 155.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Meginness, John F., ed. History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. Chicago: Brown, Runk and Co., 1892.

Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Antes Chapter. Early Vital Records of Pennsylvania. Jersey Shore, PA: By the author, 1969.

Married first Ann Pfouts, ca. 1815, possibly in Lycoming Co.

Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Antes Chapter, Early Vital Records of Pennsylvania, 151, 155–156; Gordon and Bateman, History of Henderson County, 782.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Antes Chapter. Early Vital Records of Pennsylvania. Jersey Shore, PA: By the author, 1969.

Gordon, James W., and Newton Bateman. History of Henderson County. Chicago: Munsell Publishing, 1911.

Married second Maria Covenhoven, 10 Oct. 1831, in Nippenose Township, Lycoming Co.

Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Antes Chapter, Early Vital Records of Pennsylvania, 151, 155; Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Antes Chapter, Church Records, Jersey Shore and Vicinity, 39, 45.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Antes Chapter. Early Vital Records of Pennsylvania. Jersey Shore, PA: By the author, 1969.

Daughters of the American Revolution, Fort Antes Chapter. Church Records, Jersey Shore and Vicinity--Lycoming County, Pa: Marriages Deaths Baptisms Births. Jersey Shore, PA: By the author, 1961.

Moved to Warren Co. (later in Henderson Co.), Illinois, ca. 1836, and settled in Lomax Township, Henderson Co., 1840.

Gordon and Bateman, History of Henderson County, 782; 1840 U.S. Census, Ward 6, Warren Co., IL, 206.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Gordon, James W., and Newton Bateman. History of Henderson County. Chicago: Munsell Publishing, 1911.

Census (U.S.) / U.S. Bureau of the Census. Population Schedules. Microfilm. FHL.

Owned part interest in sawmill in Wisconsin; leased interest to Latter-day Saints for preparing lumber for construction of Nauvoo temple, 1841.

Rowley, “Mormon Experience in the Wisconsin Pineries,” 127.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Rowley, Dennis. “The Mormon Experience in the Wisconsin Pineries, 1841–1845.” BYU Studies 32, nos. 1 and 2 (1992): 119–148.

Served as Henderson Co. commissioner, 1842–1845.

Allaman, “Joseph Smith’s Visits to Henderson County,” 49.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Allaman, John Lee. “Joseph Smith’s Visits to Henderson County.” Western Illinois Regional Studies 8, no. 1 (Spring 1985): 46–55.

Hosted JS and large party that freed JS from arrest, 1843, in Lomax Township.

Allaman, “Joseph Smith’s Visits to Henderson County,” 53; JS, Journal, 16 Feb. 1843; Historian’s Office, JS History, draft notes, 27 Jan. 1843.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Allaman, John Lee. “Joseph Smith’s Visits to Henderson County.” Western Illinois Regional Studies 8, no. 1 (Spring 1985): 46–55.

Historian’s Office. Joseph Smith History Draft Notes, ca. 1839–1856. CHL. CR 100 92.

Buried in Crane Cemetery, Lomax Township.

Allaman, “Joseph Smith’s Visits to Henderson County,” 49; Ross and Evans, Henderson County Illinois Cemeteries, 1:1.

Comprehensive Works Cited

Allaman, John Lee. “Joseph Smith’s Visits to Henderson County.” Western Illinois Regional Studies 8, no. 1 (Spring 1985): 46–55.

Ross, Virgina, and Jane Evans. Henderson County Illinois Cemeteries. 2 vols. Gladstone, IL: By the authors, 1979–1981.

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