Denzil Mansfield Crane

1848-1933 · Danville CA

Born 1848, Danville, Caledonia County, Vermont

Died 1933

Father: Charles Crane

Mother: Mary Fiske

Children include Edna

Denzil Mansfield Crane was born on 19 February 1848 in Danville, Caledonia County, Vermont. He was the third child of Charles Crane, a teacher and farmer who was a selectman of Danville through the Civil War, and Mary Fiske of Guildhall. He grew up on the farms his father built up east of Danville Green, and he became a teacher as well as a farmer, as his father had been.

On 1 January 1877 he married Nancie Snow, at Danville. She was twenty two and had been born on the family farm at Brandon. Their first child, Grace Mary, was born at Danville that October. The rest were born in Barnet, where Denzil farmed at McIndoe Falls, the village on the Connecticut River at the south end of the town.

They had ten children. Grace Mary was born in 1877. Freddie Henry was born on 2 December 1879 and lived seventeen days. Then came Emma Louisa in 1880, Denzil Roger in 1882, Royal Mansfield in 1885 and Edna Almeria on 8 August 1887. Nelson Herbert followed in 1889, John Alaric in 1892 and Julia Helen in 1894. The last, Marshall Snow, was born on 20 March 1898 and died on 11 April.

Three of his daughters married into the Scots families of Ryegate and Groton. Grace married William James Orr in 1902, Emma married Linwood F. Whitehill, and Edna married his younger brother, Charles Harvey Orr, in 1913. Royal and John Alaric farmed together in Barnet. Denzil served as a selectman of Barnet in 1909. By 1923 he lived at McIndoes in the house where Albert Mason had died in 1890.

Besides farming and teaching, Denzil worked as a carpenter. He served as a selectman of Barnet and as chairman of the board of trustees of McIndoes Academy, and held many other offices for the town and the village. His obituary said that "whatever he undertook received his careful consideration, and his good judgment was highly valued by his fellow-townsmen."

He fell ill in February 1933 and seemed to be recovering until a relapse put him back in bed. He died at his home in McIndoes on Sunday afternoon, 30 April 1933, aged 85. Eight children survived him, among them Mrs. Charles Orr of Charlemont, Massachusetts, and Mrs. William Orr of Leyden. The funeral was held at the McIndoes church on the Tuesday, conducted by the Rev. Ellis Crossley, and Mrs. Violet White sang "One Sweetly Solemn Thought" and "Some Sweet Day Bye and Bye." Charles and Edna Orr came up from Charlemont with their family. He is buried in McIndoe Falls Cemetery. Nancie died the next year.

Parents

Mary Fiske 1820-1902 Charles Crane 1819-1907

Children

Edna Almeria Crane 1887-1972

Sources

Find a Grave, memorial 46970395, McIndoe Falls Cemetery, Barnet, Caledonia County, Vermont; photograph added by Sandra Lennox, 2013.

Frederic Palmer Wells, History of Barnet, Vermont (Burlington: Free Press Printing, 1923), Crane genealogy by Rev. C. B. Bliss, p. 386.

Groton Times (Groton, Vermont), 12 May 1933, page 1, "Death of Denzil M. Crane"; clipping on Find a Grave memorial 46970395, added by Anne, 2022.

Frederic Palmer Wells, History of Barnet, Vermont (1923), Crane genealogy by Rev. C. B. Bliss, p. 386 (HathiTrust wu.89067958520); Find a Grave memorial 46970395 (Denzil Mansfield Crane). Groton Times, 12 May 1933, p. 1, clipping on Find a Grave memorial 46970395; portrait on the same memorial. St. Johnsbury Caledonian, 16 January 1907, p. 5, obituary of his father Charles Crane, and 15 October 1902, p. 5, obituary of his mother (Chronicling America, sn84023253); Ellery Bicknell Crane, Genealogy of the Crane Family, vol. 2 (1895), p. 559; Frederick Clifton Pierce, Fiske and Fisk Family (1896), p. 394.

St. Johnsbury Caledonian, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, 16 January 1907, p. 5, "Death of Charles Crane"; Library of Congress, Chronicling America, sn84023253.

St. Johnsbury Caledonian, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, 15 October 1902, p. 5, "At Danville. Death of Mrs. Charles Crane"; Library of Congress, Chronicling America, sn84023253.

Ellery Bicknell Crane, Genealogy of the Crane Family, vol. 2 (Worcester, 1895), addenda, pp. 557-559, entries 1, 3, 10, 11 and 33; archive.org genealogyofcrane02cran.

Frederick Clifton Pierce, Fiske and Fisk Family (Chicago, 1896), entry 2343, pp. 394-395; archive.org cu31924029841024.

Caledonian-Record, St. Johnsbury, Vermont, 31 January 1923, p. 3, "McIndoe Falls. Death of Mrs. Julia Roy"; clipping on Find a Grave memorial 241536067, added by Anne, 2022.

Find a Grave, memorial 46970395, photograph added by Anne on 12 Jul 2022.

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