Joseph Crumley Passes Away
Joseph Crumley, one of the oldest residents of the twin cities, died at the house of Mrs. Ross McCullough in Grant street, Dennison, Sunday afternoon at 12:30. Few men in either of the two towns were more widely known and none enjoyed to a greater degree the sincere respect of friends and acquaintances.
Since the death of his wife about three years ago Mr. Crumley seemed to have lost his hold on life and gradually drifted with the tide of old age until he passed peacefully away. Physicians were unable to find any evidence of specific disease. Death was due to general debility.
Mr. Crumley, who was almost 87 years of age, was born on Short Creek in Harrison county April 14, 1821. For a number of years he followed farming in the vicinity where he was born. Thirty–three years ago he removed to Uhrichsville and built a home in Fourth street where he resided until about one year ago, when he went to Dennison to spend his closing days with Mrs. McCullough.
No children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Crumley, but they reared five girls to young womanhood, caring for them with all a parents’ love. One of these was Mrs. McCullough, who was happy to return in the last years of her benefactor’s life some of that care and kindness which she had received at his hands in her childhood. Mrs. Albert Quimby and Mrs. Ross Lewis were also reared in the Crumley home.
While he never entirely gave up farming, Mr. Crumley was for a time in the meat business here with James Harvey. He had been for years a member of the Methodist Episcopal church here. He is universally remembered by the people of the twin cities as a manly Christian man who carried into his daily life his faith in Christ’s teachings. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him.