Hancock County OhArchives Biographies.....Crates, Godfrey 1831 - 
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Author: Warner & Beers (1886)

   GODFREY CRATES, farmer, P. O. Arlington, was born July 20, 1831, in
Washington County, Penn. His parents, Christian and Magdalena (Miron) Crates, of
Wurtemburg, Germany, came to America with three young children in 1829. They
lived in Washington County, Penn., until 1842, when they came to this county and
located in the wilderness, in Van Buren Township, settling on a tract of eighty
acres of land, which Christian Crates had entered from the Government about ten
years previous. Of the eight children of Christian and Magdalena Crates four are
now living: Mrs. Caroline Rhinehart, John, Godfrey and Mrs. Rosa Ann Harris.
Christian Crates died May 13, 1870, in his seventy-sixth year; his widow, the
mother of our subject, now resides with her son and is eighty-nine years of age.
Godfrey Crates was reared as a pioneer's son in Van Buren Township, this county.
He was united in marriage March 30, 1858, with Miss Lydia Wahl, who was born in
Canton Basel, Switzerland, and came in 1844 to this county with her parents,
Frederick and Anna Maria Wahl, who settled in Van Buren Township. Her parents
now reside in Orange Township, this county. Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Crates resided
in Van Buren Township, this county, until April, 1880, when they sold their farm
and purchased the old J. C. Ricketts farm of 200 acres of land in Eagle
Township, where they now reside. To Mr. and Mrs. Crates have been born ten
children: Mrs. Louisa Jane Bame, Christian F., William E., John W., Marion E.,
Margaret E., Daniel G., Mary Magdalena. Henry A. and D. William, a twin, who was
accidentally scalded in infancy. Our subject united with the Methodist Episcopal
Church at the age of seventeen years; subsequently, in 1859, he withdrew from
that church, connected himself with the Methodist Protestant Church, and was
licensed to preach by the Ohio Conference in 1877. Mrs. Crates and son,
Christian, are also members of the church. Godfrey Crates is one of the leading
farmers and representative citizens of Eagle Township.



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Book Title: History Of Hancock County
Eagle Township




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