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Horace “Harry” Newfield Crain 1861– 1937 |
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Horace or Harry Crain was 12 years old when his father, James Newfield Crain fell into the Missouri River & drowned while working on a bridge in 1873. Horace was the second oldest of eight children. By the 1880 census, he apparently was no longer living with his mother, Kate (Debenham) Crain and siblings.
The photo above was taken in Portland, Oregon probably around 1890. By 1898, Harry had moved to Jerome, Yavapai, Arizona. On Aug 21, 1898, he married Kitty (Christian) Boyd.1 It appears that there was no issue from this marriage but Kitty did have a young son, James Fred Boyd (aka J. Fred Boyd). On 25 Oct 1914, this step-son of Harry’s, Fred Boyd married Myrtle Mickle and in 1921, they had a son, James Lester Boyd.
Kitty Boyd (Christian) Crain was the proprietor of the Boyd Hotel (photo) in Jerome. Kitty and Harry are found managing the hotel from 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930 census records. The hotel was apparently abandoned in 1937 and has recently been restored. Details are available at the Jerome Historical Society.
Kitty died on 10 April 1932 while residing at the hotel. Harry, as informant, indicates on Kitty’s death certificate that she was born on 16 January 1862 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, that her father, William Christian, was a native of England and that Kitty had been in Arizona for about 50 years.
Harry died on 22 January 1937.2 Harry’s step-son, J. Fred Boyd was the informant which potentially explains some of the apparent inaccuracies in the info provided on Harry’s death certificate (birthplace of Harry’s father is indicated as Oregon and his mother’s name is imperfect).
Harry’s death certificate indicates Harry’s full name, Horace Newfield Crain, as well as the names of his parents, James H. Crain [James Newfield Crain] and Catherine D. Newfield [Catherine Debenham]. Fred Boyd indicates that Harry had been in Arizona for 41 years. Both Kitty and Harry are buried at the Valley View Cemetery in Clarkdale, Arizona.
1 Yavapai County Certified Marriage Abstract. Year 1898 Book 2 Page 355, Clerk of the Superior Court, Prescott, Arizona (in webmaster’s possession).
2 Horace Newfield Crain, death certificate/state file number 813 (1937), Arizona State Board of Health, Phoenix. Accessed online at http://genealogy.az.gov on 10 December 2005. |
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Marker, Valley View Cemetery Clarkdale, Arizona
HARRY N. CRAIN HUSBAND OF CATHERINE CRAIN 1861-1937 |
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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
+Harriet Eleanor Tong 1817-1884 2 James Newfield Crain 1832-1873 +Catherine “Kate” Debenham-1905 3 William Debenham Crain 1859-1936 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 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 4 Frannie Crain 4 Matthew Crain 4 Donald Frank Crain 1898-2003 +Gertrude Anna Resene 1900-1983 +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 +Sadie Thelma Caddick 1880-1957 4 Ralph Waldo Crain, Jr. 1906 - +Anna Lacey Johnson 3 Carl Crain 1880-1882 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 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 +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 +Ellen Fisher-1916 +Quincy Allphin-1889 *2nd Husband of Mary Frances Crain +John Helmick |
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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 —all children of
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