obituary:
Clara Crandall, a native of New York, was born March 2, 1836 and departed this life on Sunday, December 18, 1927, thus lacking less than three months of ninety-two years of age at the time of her death.
She married T. H. Crandall at the age of sixteen and to this union eight children were born, of whom five are still living. The eldest, Alpha, resides in South Dakota, Herbert and Emma in Iowa, Julius in Fresno, and Earl, the youngest, in Los Angeles.
T. H. Crandall, the husband and father, died as the result of an accident February 10, 1884. Mrs. Crandall then assumed the management of the farm and in the years that followed, by frugality and good management, not only assisted her children financially but added to her competence,
She and her husband were among those who settled Iowa and brought its virgin soil under the plow. They moved to Iowa in 1858 and to the old homestead in Calhoun County, which is still owned by the family, in 1870.
obituary:
Clara Crandall, a native of New York, was born March 2, 1836 and departed this life on Sunday, December 18, 1927, thus lacking less than three months of ninety-two years of age at the time of her death.
She married T. H. Crandall at the age of sixteen and to this union eight children were born, of whom five are still living. The eldest, Alpha, resides in South Dakota, Herbert and Emma in Iowa, Julius in Fresno, and Earl, the youngest, in Los Angeles.
T. H. Crandall, the husband and father, died as the result of an accident February 10, 1884. Mrs. Crandall then assumed the management of the farm and in the years that followed, by frugality and good management, not only assisted her children financially but added to her competence,
She and her husband were among those who settled Iowa and brought its virgin soil under the plow. They moved to Iowa in 1858 and to the old homestead in Calhoun County, which is still owned by the family, in 1870.
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