Son of W Cranch of Alexandria, DC; was drown'd in Lake Erie 27 August 1825 while acting as a volunteer assistant to the corps of Engineers employed in surveying the route for a canal from that Lake to the Ohio.
"Weep no more. For Lycidas, your sorrow is not dead. Sunk thou' he be, beneath the warty floor so sinks the day-star in the ocean-bed, and tricks his beams and newspangled of flames in the fore-head of the morning sky."
"Weep no more. For Lycidas, your sorrow is not dead. Sunk thou' he be, beneath the warty floor so sinks the day-star in the ocean-bed, and tricks his beams and newspangled of flames in the fore-head of the morning sky."
Son of W Cranch of Alexandria, DC; was drown'd in Lake Erie 27 August 1825 while acting as a volunteer assistant to the corps of Engineers employed in surveying the route for a canal from that Lake to the Ohio.
"Weep no more. For Lycidas, your sorrow is not dead. Sunk thou' he be, beneath the warty floor so sinks the day-star in the ocean-bed, and tricks his beams and newspangled of flames in the fore-head of the morning sky."
"Weep no more. For Lycidas, your sorrow is not dead. Sunk thou' he be, beneath the warty floor so sinks the day-star in the ocean-bed, and tricks his beams and newspangled of flames in the fore-head of the morning sky."
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Richard Cranch born 27 June 1797, Son of W. Cranch of Alexandria D.C. Drowned in Lake Erie while acting as volunteer assistant in the Corps of Engineers employed in surveying the route for a canal from that Lake to the Ohio.
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