Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Crane, Joel 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Joel Crane, farmer, Stone Bluff, is the son of Jonathan and Kezia (Tappen)
Crane, both natives of New Jersey. After their marriage they first went to Ohio,
where they remained for some time, the former joining with a stock company, for
the purpose of buying land in Fountain county. In 1832 they came and settled
where Joel, their son, now lives, and lived to a good old age. The children of
this pioneer couple are now heads of several of the prominent families of this
county. Joel, who now lives on the old homestead, was married in 1840, to
Elizabeth Jenkins, daughter of Absalom and Elizabeth Jenkins, both natives of
Virginia, pioneers of Ohio, and came to Fountain county in 1838. By this
marriage he had six children. Oliver H., Malvina, Louis, Cyrus, are the only
ones living. The mother of these dying, Joel was married a second time, to
Eimira Longstreth, native of Ohio, who also died. He was married a third time,
in 1856, to Polly A. Smith, daughter of Taylor Smith, one of the early pioneers
of Fountain county. Mr. Crane's first wife was a member of the New Light
Christians, his second and third wives, of the Methodist Episcopal church. His
son Louis C. was a soldier of the late war, and was wounded at Stone River, and
sent home, but reenlisted as soon as able for duty, and remained during the war.
His son Cyrus enlisted at the close of the war. Both Lewis C. and Cyrus were
under age at the time of their enlistment. Joel received but a very limited
education. When he came from his native state, Ohio, with his parents, to
Fountain county, he was fifteen years of age. Then more attention was paid to
the cultivation of the land than to the cultivation of the mind. He began life
in limited circumstances, and now has a farm of 178 acres of good land in a high
state of cultivation, and well stocked.

Additional Comments:
Van Buren Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.

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