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Surnames: CRAIN, JOHNSON, SAWYER, SEWELL, WARD, RABB
Classification: Query
Message Board URL:
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Message Board Post:
Three sisters from my CRAIN line ended up in Van Buren Co IA. Their family was in
Lancaster/Dauphin Co PA at the time of the Revolutionary War, moved on to Warren County OH
before 1799. Then on to Fountain Co IN in 1827 and to Iowa in 1838.
Their parents were William and Mary SAWYER CRAIN. William’s parents were George and Jean
STURGEON CRAIN, George’s parents William (born Ireland) and Jean CRAIN.
Gravestone photos for Nancy CRAIN JOHNSON RABB, my gg-grandmother:
http://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php/id_6867
Her sisters:
Mary CRAIN JOHNSON SEWELL
http://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php/id_6864
Eliza Weir CRAIN WARD
http://iowagravestones.org/gs_view.php/id_129716
Other siblings included William Sawyer CRAIN, John B. CRAIN, Joseph A. CRAIN and Margaret
CRAIN BROWN. Several family members are buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Fountain Co. IN.
Also a gravestone photo of their father William in Springboro Cemetery, Warren Co. OH.
along with photos of my JOHNSON line (Nancy Crain’s in-laws James & Mary and husband
William JOHNSON):
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~4fathers/SpringboroCemetery/
I would like to exchange info with anyone descended from these families. And would
especially like to know the death location and burial of Mary SAWYER CRAIN.
Thanks.