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Mrs. Fred Crain Departs Life at Danville, IL Augusta Eagle, Thursday, November 28, 1957
Funeral services are being held this afternoon for Mrs. Martha Newcomb Crain, 84, member of a pioneer Augusta family, whose demise occurred Sunday at Danville.
Many old time friends will join relatives in paying their last tribute to Mrs. Crain by attending the final rites at the Augusta Methodist Church. The pastor, Rev. Clifford Bruner will officiate. Wendell Mathis will sing an arrangement from one of Whittier's poems, accompanied at the organ by Mrs. Leo McCrutchan.
Burial will be in the Pulaski Cemetery. Pallbearers are Harold and Earl Hoyt, Bernard Cain, Glen Robinson, Harry Melvin and Kenneth Sights, some of whom are sons of girlhood and lifelong friends of Mrs. Crain.
Mrs. Martha Crain, daughter of the late Frank and Sarah Gordon Newcomb, passed away at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Philip Hawes, Danville, Sunday, Nov. 24, 1957, where she had made her home for the past three years. The very sudden passing of Alberta Hawes in the Hawes' home three weeks ago was too great a shock for Mrs. Crain to endure at her advanced years.
She was born in Pulaski neighborhood, south of Augusta, December 29, 1871. She attended and graduated from Augusta High School. On June 17, 1896 she married Fred Crain and they lived for several years on the Crain farm. They moved to Augusta in 1911, later moving to Galesburg while the children attended Knox College.
After the demise of her husband in 1920, Mrs. Crain took employment as housemother in fraternity and sorority houses at Madison, Wis., Urbana and Ft. Collins, Colorado. She also served for a few years as director of a YWCA residence hall at 131 East 4th Street, Oklahoma City.
Besides the daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Crain Hawes of Danville, and son Donald Crain, of Grand Junction, Colorado, there survives one grandson, Philip Hawes, of Danville.
Mrs. Crain's service to the Kingdom of God reached back to the time of her being superintendent of the Pulaski Sunday School for several years. Her constancy at worship services of the Augusta Methodist Church, where she maintained membership, is a blessed memory. She was also a member of Augusta chapter, Order of the Eastern Star. |
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Martha Newcomb Crain (1871 - 1957) |
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Four Generations |
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(L-R) Mattie Newcomb Crain Mattie’s daughter Dorothy Crain Mattie’s grandmother Martha Ann Reynolds Gordon Mattie’s mother Sarah Elizabeth “Sally” Gordon Newcomb, Augusta, IL 1901 (Visit the Gordon Family website) |
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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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