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Samuel Crotcher

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Samuel Crotcher

Birth
Illinois, USA
Death
19 Jan 1940 (aged 80)
Fremont, Dodge County, Nebraska, USA
Burial
Fremont, Dodge County, Nebraska, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block 319, Lot 2, Grave 11
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Plot info provided by Find A Grave member #47294033 (Dec. 2022).

Name spelling is not consistent on records:
His father & mother's headstones show "CROTYER"
His younger brothers, Franklin and William, with headstones showing "CROTCHER".
His son, James Andrew, spelled the surname as "CRUTCHER".
Also seen spelled as Croyter, Crotyer, Crotzer, Cratcher, Krutcher, and Cratyer.

Spouses:
1. Samuel "Croyter" married Miss Nelle E. Riley on Aug. 23, 1880 at Ashland, Nebraska. They had the following children: Nellie, b. 1885, Jessie Mae, b. 1888, and James Andrew b. 1894.
2. Samuel "Crotcher" married Mrs. Effie (nee Cain) Brusseau, a widower, on Dec. 1, 1920 at Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa.

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Fremont Tribune, Fremont, Nebraska, 19 Jan 1940, Fri • Page 2
Samuel Cratcher Dies at Hospital
Samuel Cratcher, 81 years old, died today at a hospital in Fremont, where he had lived for the last 50 years. He had been ill for four years.

Cratcher was born in Illinois December 12, 1859. For many years in Fremont he was occupied as a mortar-mixer. Surviving are his wife, Effie; one daughter, Mrs. O. R. Burt, Mellette, S.D.; one son, James, of Manthe, Idaho, one brother, William, of Fullerton; 10 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, 3:30 p.m., at the Fred Bader funeral home. Dr. Paul Philipp will officiate. Burial will be at Ridge cemetery.
Plot info provided by Find A Grave member #47294033 (Dec. 2022).

Name spelling is not consistent on records:
His father & mother's headstones show "CROTYER"
His younger brothers, Franklin and William, with headstones showing "CROTCHER".
His son, James Andrew, spelled the surname as "CRUTCHER".
Also seen spelled as Croyter, Crotyer, Crotzer, Cratcher, Krutcher, and Cratyer.

Spouses:
1. Samuel "Croyter" married Miss Nelle E. Riley on Aug. 23, 1880 at Ashland, Nebraska. They had the following children: Nellie, b. 1885, Jessie Mae, b. 1888, and James Andrew b. 1894.
2. Samuel "Crotcher" married Mrs. Effie (nee Cain) Brusseau, a widower, on Dec. 1, 1920 at Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa.

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Fremont Tribune, Fremont, Nebraska, 19 Jan 1940, Fri • Page 2
Samuel Cratcher Dies at Hospital
Samuel Cratcher, 81 years old, died today at a hospital in Fremont, where he had lived for the last 50 years. He had been ill for four years.

Cratcher was born in Illinois December 12, 1859. For many years in Fremont he was occupied as a mortar-mixer. Surviving are his wife, Effie; one daughter, Mrs. O. R. Burt, Mellette, S.D.; one son, James, of Manthe, Idaho, one brother, William, of Fullerton; 10 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, 3:30 p.m., at the Fred Bader funeral home. Dr. Paul Philipp will officiate. Burial will be at Ridge cemetery.

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  • Created by: JIK
  • Added: Jan 18, 2021
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/221262285/samuel-crotcher: accessed ), memorial page for Samuel Crotcher (12 Dec 1859–19 Jan 1940), Find a Grave Memorial ID 221262285, citing Ridge Cemetery, Fremont, Dodge County, Nebraska, USA; Maintained by JIK (contributor 48905402).