Edna Almeria Crane

1887-1972 · Barnet, Caledonia County, Vermont

Born 1887, Barnet, Caledonia County, Vermont

Died 1972

Father: Denzil Mansfield Crane

Mother: Nancy Agnes Snow

Children include A.

Edna Almeria Crane was born on 8 August 1887 in Barnet, Caledonia County, Vermont. She was the sixth of ten children of Denzil Mansfield Crane and Nancie Snow, who farmed at McIndoe Falls, the village at the south end of Barnet on the Connecticut River. Her father was also a teacher. Two of her brothers died as babies.

On 24 September 1913 she married Charles Harvey Orr, a native of nearby Groton. His older brother William James Orr had married her older sister Grace Mary Crane in 1902. Edna's son Dorman Charles Orr was born in Barnet on 7 May 1915, and her daughter Almeria Gertrude on 24 January 1920. Gertrude carried her mother's middle name.

The family moved to Greenfield, Massachusetts, where Charles worked as an inspector at the tap and die works. In April 1950 Edna, 62, and Charles lived upstairs in their Greenfield house, with Dorman's family below them. Her daughter married Lewis Nathan Chase of Gill. Charles died in 1963 while visiting the Chases.

Edna died in Greenfield on 1 December 1972, aged 85. She is buried with her husband in Green River Cemetery, Greenfield, Section 37, Lot 15, under a stone that reads "Edna A. Crane, his wife, 1887 1972".

Parents

Nancy Agnes Snow 1854-1934 Denzil Mansfield Crane 1848-1933

Children

A. Gertrude Orr (1920-1986)

Sources

Memorial of Almeria Gertrude Orr Chase (24 Jan 1920 Barnet, Vermont - 11 Jan 1986 Gill, Massachusetts), Green River Cemetery, Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, Section 27, Lot 32; Find a Grave memorial 114969551.

Memorial of Edna Almeria Crane Orr (8 Aug 1887 Barnet, Vermont - 1 Dec 1972 Greenfield, Massachusetts), Green River Cemetery, Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, Section 37, Lot 15; Find a Grave memorial 145593806.

1950 United States census, Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, enumeration district 6-31, sheet 21, lines 13-19; National Archives, 1950census.archives.gov.

Find a Grave, memorial 145593802, Green River Cemetery, Greenfield, Massachusetts, Section 37, Lot 15; photograph added by Judy Winn Graves, 2015.

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

Frederic Palmer Wells, History of Barnet, Vermont (1923), Orr entry, pp. 573-574.

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.

History of Barnet, Vermont (1923), Crane genealogy, p. 386, and Orr entry, pp. 573-574 (HathiTrust wu.89067958520); 1950 US census, Greenfield, ED 6-31, sheet 21 (NARA); Find a Grave memorials 145593806 and 145593802, with stone photograph.

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