While visiting the cemetery in the early 1970's with my grandfather Mathias, son of William, he told me the birth date on William's marker was incorrect. He was born in 1855 not 1854.
William Bunn McCrea Jr., Great grandson of William Sweazy McCrea.
William was a Farmer, Carpenter and Inventor. He held several Patents.
He was plowing snow with his tractor and got stuck in the snow. While pulling it out with a team of horses he had a heart attack.
Obit
William S. McCrea, a well known resident of Pattenburg, where for a number of years he followed the occupation of a carpenter, died at his home Saturday morning, aged 77 years. Mr. McCrea is survived by three sons, Harry O., Mathias and Arthur S. McCrea, of Pattenburg; 10 grandchildren, two brothers, Abram L., of Elizabeth; Anson B., of Pattenburg, and three sisters, Mrs. Lydia Alpaugh, Annandale; Mrs. Harriet S. Dalrymple, Washington, N. J., and Mrs. Elizabeth Apgar, of Lebanon, N. J.
A funeral service will be conducted at his late home Tuesday afternoon at 1:30. At 2 o'clock there will be a service in the Pattenburg Methodist Episcopal Church and interment will be made in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.
Source:
Easton Express Times - Jan 09 1932, Page 8.
Thanks to Find A Grave contributor Beverly G. Kirby-McDonough
William Bunn McCrea Jr., Great grandson of William Sweazy McCrea.
William was a Farmer, Carpenter and Inventor. He held several Patents.
He was plowing snow with his tractor and got stuck in the snow. While pulling it out with a team of horses he had a heart attack.
Obit
William S. McCrea, a well known resident of Pattenburg, where for a number of years he followed the occupation of a carpenter, died at his home Saturday morning, aged 77 years. Mr. McCrea is survived by three sons, Harry O., Mathias and Arthur S. McCrea, of Pattenburg; 10 grandchildren, two brothers, Abram L., of Elizabeth; Anson B., of Pattenburg, and three sisters, Mrs. Lydia Alpaugh, Annandale; Mrs. Harriet S. Dalrymple, Washington, N. J., and Mrs. Elizabeth Apgar, of Lebanon, N. J.
A funeral service will be conducted at his late home Tuesday afternoon at 1:30. At 2 o'clock there will be a service in the Pattenburg Methodist Episcopal Church and interment will be made in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.
Source:
Easton Express Times - Jan 09 1932, Page 8.
Thanks to Find A Grave contributor Beverly G. Kirby-McDonough
While visiting the cemetery in the early 1970's with my grandfather Mathias, son of William, he told me the birth date on William's marker was incorrect. He was born in 1855 not 1854.
William Bunn McCrea Jr., Great grandson of William Sweazy McCrea.
William was a Farmer, Carpenter and Inventor. He held several Patents.
He was plowing snow with his tractor and got stuck in the snow. While pulling it out with a team of horses he had a heart attack.
Obit
William S. McCrea, a well known resident of Pattenburg, where for a number of years he followed the occupation of a carpenter, died at his home Saturday morning, aged 77 years. Mr. McCrea is survived by three sons, Harry O., Mathias and Arthur S. McCrea, of Pattenburg; 10 grandchildren, two brothers, Abram L., of Elizabeth; Anson B., of Pattenburg, and three sisters, Mrs. Lydia Alpaugh, Annandale; Mrs. Harriet S. Dalrymple, Washington, N. J., and Mrs. Elizabeth Apgar, of Lebanon, N. J.
A funeral service will be conducted at his late home Tuesday afternoon at 1:30. At 2 o'clock there will be a service in the Pattenburg Methodist Episcopal Church and interment will be made in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.
Source:
Easton Express Times - Jan 09 1932, Page 8.
Thanks to Find A Grave contributor Beverly G. Kirby-McDonough
William Bunn McCrea Jr., Great grandson of William Sweazy McCrea.
William was a Farmer, Carpenter and Inventor. He held several Patents.
He was plowing snow with his tractor and got stuck in the snow. While pulling it out with a team of horses he had a heart attack.
Obit
William S. McCrea, a well known resident of Pattenburg, where for a number of years he followed the occupation of a carpenter, died at his home Saturday morning, aged 77 years. Mr. McCrea is survived by three sons, Harry O., Mathias and Arthur S. McCrea, of Pattenburg; 10 grandchildren, two brothers, Abram L., of Elizabeth; Anson B., of Pattenburg, and three sisters, Mrs. Lydia Alpaugh, Annandale; Mrs. Harriet S. Dalrymple, Washington, N. J., and Mrs. Elizabeth Apgar, of Lebanon, N. J.
A funeral service will be conducted at his late home Tuesday afternoon at 1:30. At 2 o'clock there will be a service in the Pattenburg Methodist Episcopal Church and interment will be made in the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.
Source:
Easton Express Times - Jan 09 1932, Page 8.
Thanks to Find A Grave contributor Beverly G. Kirby-McDonough
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