REV. WILLIAM³ CRAIN (JOHN², SAMUEL¹) was born 01 March 1802 in Culpeper County, VA, and died 03 November 1884 in Huntsville, Schulyer Co., IL.

He married HARRIET ELEANOR TONG in 1832 in Southeastern Missouri, daughter of JAMES TONG and ELIZABETH THOMPSON. She was born 24 June 1817 in Fredericktown, MO and died 01 November 1884 in Huntsville, Schuyler Co., IL. Read the autobiography of Harriet’s grandfather, William Tong, a Revolutionary War soldier who fathered 26 children.

Crain Farm was located just across the county line from Pulaski, Illinois, in Huntsville, Schuyler County. Rev. Crain served in the Pulaski Methodist Church.

According to Ralph Waldo Crain's chapter in Augusta's Story, the mother of Harriet Tong died when Harriet was three years of age and an aunt, Eleanor Tong Newfield/Neufield took the girl to rear and after Harriet married Rev. Crain, the Newfields always lived near her. In 1834, the uncle, Abraham Newfield, came with Rev. William Crain from Cape Girardeau County, Missouri to Schuyler County, Illinois.

According to Dorothy Crain Hawes, "Harriet was an only child born June 1817. When married in 1832, in Southeastern Missouri, she was 14 years 9 months and her husband was 30!"

The Crain Family

The words of Ralph W. Crain excerpted from the book Augusta's Story,Compiled by the Martha Board Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution
Augusta Eagle, Augusta, Illinois, 1922

William Crain, my grandfather, was born on March 1, 1802, in Culpeper Co., Va. Both his father, John Crain, and his grandfather, Samuel Crain, were born in this same county in 1774 and 1741 respectively. Samuel Crain was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. In 1797 he moved with his family to Kentucky, and died in Fleming County in 1829. His children were: John, Joseph, James, Lewis, William, Samuel, Nancy and Elizabeth.

On October 14, 1796, John Crain, my great-grandfather, married Sarah Rousseau, who was a cousin of William Henry Harrison, of "log cabin and hard cider" fame. Sarah Rousseau was a great-granddaughter of Hillaire Rousseau, who, exiled from France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, came first to South Carolina and later to Virginia. The children of John and Sarah Crain were: Lucy (married Hiram Gragg), Nancy (married Zachariah Price), James R. (married Catherine Dogan), William (my grandfather, married Harriet Eleanor Tong), (Continue)

Descendants of

Reverend

William Crain

and Harriet Tong

Pioneers of

Harriet Eleanor Tong

Birth: 24 June 1817

Fredericktown, MO

Death: 1 November 1884

Daughter of James Tong and Elizabeth Thompson

Rev. William Crain

Birth: 1 March 1802

Culpeper County, VA

Death: 3 November 1884

Son of John Crain

and Sarah Rousseau

Married 19 Apr 1832 in Cape Girardeau, Missouri

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Crain Farm, Huntsville, Schulyer Co, IL

Village of Pulaski, Augusta Township, Hancock County, Illinois

1=First Generation

2=Second Generation

3=Third Generation, etc.

+=Spouse

1 William Crain 1802-1884

+Harriet Eleanor Tong 1817-1884

2 James Newfield Crain 1832-1873

+Catherine “Kate” Debenham-1905

3 William Debenham Crain 1859-1936

+ Laura Ann Bishop - 1962

4 Nell Crain

4 Earnest Crain

4 Ralph Crain

4 Horace Crain

+ Nell

5 Mabel Crain

4 Ruth Crain

4 Frank Crain

3 Horace Newfield Crain c. 1861-1937

3 Elsie Crain 1862-1864

3 Hattie Crain c. 1863-

3 Thomas c. 1864

3 Mary c. 1866-

3 Herbert c. 1869-

3 Cora c. 1870-

3 Myrtle c. 1873-

2 John Franklin Crain 1832-1872

+Margaret Howard-1914

3 John Bond Crain, MD

3 William Crain

3 Charles Newton Crain

3 Elsie Crain

3 Benjamin Crain

3 David Crain

3 Edward Crain

3 Margaret Crain

2 William Harris Crain 1834-1904

+Rachel Baxter 1840-1932

3 Annie Belle Crain 1861-1864

3 William Maurice Crain 1863-1964

+Sarah Ann Newcomb 1865-1920

4 Helen Newcomb Crain 1896-

+Joseph Davenport Houghton 1895-

5 Helen Harriet Houghton

3 Hattie Crain 1865-1866

3 Frank Matthew Crain 1867-1952

3 Fred Hoyt Crain 1867-1920

+Martha Newcomb 1871-1957

4 Frannie Crain

4 Matthew Crain

4 Donald Frank Crain 1898-2003

+Gertrude Anna Resene 1900-1983

4 Dorothy Crain 1899-1989

+Philip Broaddus Hawes, Sr. 1889-1960

5 Philip Broaddus Hawes, Jr. 1934-

3 Charles Crain 1869-1871

3 Harry Marshall Crain 1874-1967

+Mace Gardner 1882-1967

3 Ralph Waldo Crain 1877-1949

+Sadie Thelma Caddick 1880-1957

4 Ralph Waldo Crain, Jr. 1906 -

+Anna Lacey Johnson

4 Earl Thomas Crain 1907-1989

+Agnes Hildebrand 1919 -

3 Carl Crain 1880-1882

3 Mary Crain 1886-1990

2 Sarah Ellen Maria Crain 1838-1915

+Robert Ellis 1829-1886

2 George Crain 1840-1840

2 Mary Crain 1841-1841

2 Elizabeth Crain 1843-1843

2 Julia Crain 1845-1846

2 Harriet Eliza Crain 1847-1946

+William Kirk 1838-1918

3 James Benjamin Kirk 1868 - 1966

+Lillie Helena Johnson

3 Harriet Kirk 1871 -

+Charles McGinnis

3 William Kirk 1873 -

+Jenny

3 Mary Kirk 1875 -

+Edmund/Edward Burke

3 Effie Kirk 1877 -

+Charles Nelson

3 Letha Kirk 1880 -

+Husband Mitchell

3 Viva Kirk 1887 -

+Glenn Weston Hansell

2 Benjamin Bacon Crain 1851-1946

+Nettie Augusta Catlin 1854-1898

* 2nd Wife of Benjamin Bacon Crain:

+Nell Hess 1867-1939

2 Henry Clay Crain 1853-1923

+Jennie Hoadley Reed 1865-1949

3 Henry Walter Crain 1887—1971

4 Henry Walter Crain 1923—1982

4 Daughter Crain

+Lelia Flay Goodson

3 Edward Benjamin Crain 1889-

+Anna Gertrude McMahon

4 Edward Benjamin Crain

+Helen Betty Pruitt

3 Paul Reed Crain

3 Rollin Crain

2 Edward Morris Crain 1855-

+Ellen Fisher-1916

2 Mary Frances Crain 1857-

+Quincy Allphin-1889

*2nd Husband of Mary Frances Crain +John Helmick

Descendants of

Rev. William Crain

Brother of Lucy Crain Gragg, Nancy Crain Price, James Crain, Elizabeth Crain Gragg, Mary Harrison Crain McGinnis, Sarah Frances Crain and

Moriah Maldon Crain Kelly

—all children of

John Crain (1774-1858) and

Sarah Rousseau (1776-1869)

Last updated 11/3/08

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