Dexter Hansel CRUM was the eighth of nine children and the youngest son of Jacob Solomon CRUM and Martha Adeline BURCH.
He was a tall man, of medium build, with dark hair and grey eyes. He was raised to farming, but left Indiana to serve his country as a soldier during World War I. After the war he returned to live with his father and new step-mother Celia Bruner Crum. He made his living as a seasonal farm worker.
Dexter was in Iowa for a corn husking job in the autumn of 1921, when his stepmother's niece, Edna Geneva BROWN, came to pay the family a visit. She stayed long enough after Dexter's return to spark a romance between them. They became engaged Oct. 1, 1922.
The couple were married Feb 10, 1923 when Dexter was 28 and his wife was 23. They rented their first home on the west side of North Madison, just south of 16th St. In 1934, they moved to the north side of 15th Street. Dexter was a sander at the furniture plant (Shower's?) and later was an employee of one of the stone quarries.
In 1935, shortly after the death of his step mother, Dexter returned to the family farm to care for his father in his last years. His father died Oct. 17, 1944 and left the family farm to Dexter.
Dexter remained on the farm where he was born for the remainder of his life. The last Crum family reunion to be held at the old farm was on Aug. 14, 1960. Dexter died of a heart attack the following March. He was 66. To my knowledge, Dexter and Edna had no children.
During his life Dexter was a member of the Union Primitive Baptist Church, the Stanford Masonic Lodge and The Stanford Eastern Star.
He was a tall man, of medium build, with dark hair and grey eyes. He was raised to farming, but left Indiana to serve his country as a soldier during World War I. After the war he returned to live with his father and new step-mother Celia Bruner Crum. He made his living as a seasonal farm worker.
Dexter was in Iowa for a corn husking job in the autumn of 1921, when his stepmother's niece, Edna Geneva BROWN, came to pay the family a visit. She stayed long enough after Dexter's return to spark a romance between them. They became engaged Oct. 1, 1922.
The couple were married Feb 10, 1923 when Dexter was 28 and his wife was 23. They rented their first home on the west side of North Madison, just south of 16th St. In 1934, they moved to the north side of 15th Street. Dexter was a sander at the furniture plant (Shower's?) and later was an employee of one of the stone quarries.
In 1935, shortly after the death of his step mother, Dexter returned to the family farm to care for his father in his last years. His father died Oct. 17, 1944 and left the family farm to Dexter.
Dexter remained on the farm where he was born for the remainder of his life. The last Crum family reunion to be held at the old farm was on Aug. 14, 1960. Dexter died of a heart attack the following March. He was 66. To my knowledge, Dexter and Edna had no children.
During his life Dexter was a member of the Union Primitive Baptist Church, the Stanford Masonic Lodge and The Stanford Eastern Star.
Dexter Hansel CRUM was the eighth of nine children and the youngest son of Jacob Solomon CRUM and Martha Adeline BURCH.
He was a tall man, of medium build, with dark hair and grey eyes. He was raised to farming, but left Indiana to serve his country as a soldier during World War I. After the war he returned to live with his father and new step-mother Celia Bruner Crum. He made his living as a seasonal farm worker.
Dexter was in Iowa for a corn husking job in the autumn of 1921, when his stepmother's niece, Edna Geneva BROWN, came to pay the family a visit. She stayed long enough after Dexter's return to spark a romance between them. They became engaged Oct. 1, 1922.
The couple were married Feb 10, 1923 when Dexter was 28 and his wife was 23. They rented their first home on the west side of North Madison, just south of 16th St. In 1934, they moved to the north side of 15th Street. Dexter was a sander at the furniture plant (Shower's?) and later was an employee of one of the stone quarries.
In 1935, shortly after the death of his step mother, Dexter returned to the family farm to care for his father in his last years. His father died Oct. 17, 1944 and left the family farm to Dexter.
Dexter remained on the farm where he was born for the remainder of his life. The last Crum family reunion to be held at the old farm was on Aug. 14, 1960. Dexter died of a heart attack the following March. He was 66. To my knowledge, Dexter and Edna had no children.
During his life Dexter was a member of the Union Primitive Baptist Church, the Stanford Masonic Lodge and The Stanford Eastern Star.
He was a tall man, of medium build, with dark hair and grey eyes. He was raised to farming, but left Indiana to serve his country as a soldier during World War I. After the war he returned to live with his father and new step-mother Celia Bruner Crum. He made his living as a seasonal farm worker.
Dexter was in Iowa for a corn husking job in the autumn of 1921, when his stepmother's niece, Edna Geneva BROWN, came to pay the family a visit. She stayed long enough after Dexter's return to spark a romance between them. They became engaged Oct. 1, 1922.
The couple were married Feb 10, 1923 when Dexter was 28 and his wife was 23. They rented their first home on the west side of North Madison, just south of 16th St. In 1934, they moved to the north side of 15th Street. Dexter was a sander at the furniture plant (Shower's?) and later was an employee of one of the stone quarries.
In 1935, shortly after the death of his step mother, Dexter returned to the family farm to care for his father in his last years. His father died Oct. 17, 1944 and left the family farm to Dexter.
Dexter remained on the farm where he was born for the remainder of his life. The last Crum family reunion to be held at the old farm was on Aug. 14, 1960. Dexter died of a heart attack the following March. He was 66. To my knowledge, Dexter and Edna had no children.
During his life Dexter was a member of the Union Primitive Baptist Church, the Stanford Masonic Lodge and The Stanford Eastern Star.
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