Born Sarah Ross c.1724, Mrs. Crane died in the "63d Year of her Age", a victim of "consumption". She was the widow of Jonathan Crane, who had died seven years earlier. The couple were the parents of a large family, including a son, John, who fought and died for the American cause during the Revolutionary War.
Mrs. Crane's brown sandstone stele, with its pleasing symmetry, soul effigy, and floral & vine motif, appears to be the work of noted stonecarver David Jeffries. It often catches the eyes of passers-by because it bears the inscription "purchased by Ichabod Crane", evoking images of Washington Irving's hapless schoolmaster and the Headless Horseman in the "Legend of Sleepy Hollow". This real-life Ichabod Crane was another of Sarah's and Jonathan's sons, however, and had purchased the Crane gravestone next to hers as well. "Anonymous" GRAVESTONE PHOTO by Nikita Barlow
Mrs. Crane's brown sandstone stele, with its pleasing symmetry, soul effigy, and floral & vine motif, appears to be the work of noted stonecarver David Jeffries. It often catches the eyes of passers-by because it bears the inscription "purchased by Ichabod Crane", evoking images of Washington Irving's hapless schoolmaster and the Headless Horseman in the "Legend of Sleepy Hollow". This real-life Ichabod Crane was another of Sarah's and Jonathan's sons, however, and had purchased the Crane gravestone next to hers as well. "Anonymous" GRAVESTONE PHOTO by Nikita Barlow
Born Sarah Ross c.1724, Mrs. Crane died in the "63d Year of her Age", a victim of "consumption". She was the widow of Jonathan Crane, who had died seven years earlier. The couple were the parents of a large family, including a son, John, who fought and died for the American cause during the Revolutionary War.
Mrs. Crane's brown sandstone stele, with its pleasing symmetry, soul effigy, and floral & vine motif, appears to be the work of noted stonecarver David Jeffries. It often catches the eyes of passers-by because it bears the inscription "purchased by Ichabod Crane", evoking images of Washington Irving's hapless schoolmaster and the Headless Horseman in the "Legend of Sleepy Hollow". This real-life Ichabod Crane was another of Sarah's and Jonathan's sons, however, and had purchased the Crane gravestone next to hers as well. "Anonymous" GRAVESTONE PHOTO by Nikita Barlow
Mrs. Crane's brown sandstone stele, with its pleasing symmetry, soul effigy, and floral & vine motif, appears to be the work of noted stonecarver David Jeffries. It often catches the eyes of passers-by because it bears the inscription "purchased by Ichabod Crane", evoking images of Washington Irving's hapless schoolmaster and the Headless Horseman in the "Legend of Sleepy Hollow". This real-life Ichabod Crane was another of Sarah's and Jonathan's sons, however, and had purchased the Crane gravestone next to hers as well. "Anonymous" GRAVESTONE PHOTO by Nikita Barlow
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Source of maiden name: Findagrave member Neal Underwood
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