OBITUARY OF ALVA B CRANDALL

Alva B. Crandall was born at Williamsburg, New York, January 16, 1849, and died at the Cedar Valley Hospital at Charles City, Iowa, April 13, 1923

He came west when twenty years old and settled in Chickasaw County, Iowa, near the town of Nashua. Here he met and married Mary Sutton.

Mr. and Mrs. Crandall were the parents of eight children; Mrs. Pearl Meadows, deceased; Mrs. Edith Bruinenger, New York City; George; William; and Frank Crandall, Charles City, Iowa; Edward Crandall, Oklahoma; and Fred and Orla Crandall, Waterloo, Iowa. Mrs. Crandall passed away twenty years ago.

Mr. Crandall was seized with pneumonia while visiting his son, who was a patient at the Cedar Valley Hospital and Passed away after a week's illness.

Mr. Crandall was the youngest of twelve children, six girls and six boys, and the last to survive.

All the children were present at the funeral, which was held Sunday at 2:00 O'clock at Linderman's Chapel, Charles City, and the remains were laid to rest in Greenwood Cemetery, Nashua.

Nashua Reporter, Thursday April 19, 1923
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Name: A. B. Crandall
Death Date: 13 Apr 1923
Page #: 28
Cemetery: Greenwood
Town: Nashua
Level Info: Gravestone Records of Chickasaw County, Ia.
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1880 US Census: Williamsburg, Phelps, Nebraska
A. B. Crandall 31 born New York
Mary 20 born Michigan
Pearl 1 born Nebraska..abt 1880
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1900 US Census: Richland, Chickasaw, Iowa
Alva Crandall 51 born January 1849 New York
Mary 39 born July 1860 Michigan
George 17 born September 1882 Nebraska
Edith 15 born June 1884 Nebraska
Fred H 14 born September 1885 Nebraska
Edward 12 born July 1887 Nebraska
Orlando 6 born July 1889 Nebraska
willie 6 born June 1893 Nebraska
Frank 1 born June 1898 Missouri