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Salem Pioneer Cemetery ~ Paul Crandall
~ part of the Marion County Pioneer Cemeteries of Oregon
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Paul Crandall
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FIRST NAME: Paul
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| BORN: 20 Sep 1802
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DIED: 9 Jan 1889
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BURIED: 10 Jan 1889
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OCCUPATION: Teacher, Farmer
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| BIRTH PLACE: Waterford, New London Co., Connecticut
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| DEATH PLACE: Salem, Marion Co., Oregon
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IOOF - Paul Crandall, age 86 y's 3 m's 20 d's, died near Salem, deceased was an old Pioneer.
MARRIAGE - "Paul Crandall & Mrs. Orlena J. Smith, m 15 Dec 1869 at house of Mrs. Orlena J. Smith; C. C. Stratton, M. G. Wit: S. Price & L. M. Wamless [sic - Wanless] #1212 pg 473".
1870 OR CENSUS - Paul Cradall, age 67, farmer, b. Conn., is enumerated with wife Orlena J. Crandall, age 44, b. Indiana.
1880 OR CENSUS - Paul Crandall, age 77, a farmer born in Conn., is enumerated with wife Orlena J., age 55, b. Ohio.
BIOGRAPHICAL:
"The parents of Paul Crandall, Silas and Rebecca (Beebe) Crandall, were living at Waterford, Connecticut, on September 2, 1802, at the time of his birth. The home was known as the "Beebe House" and was on a tract of land purchased by an ancestor of both. This ancestor was James Rogers, "the immigrant," who secured a large tract about 1664. The Beebes were among the earliest settlers in New London and Waterford and one of these married a daughter of James Rogers. On his father's side Paul Crandall was a lineal descendant of John Crandall, who came from England about 1634, and in 1636 joined Roger Williams in Rhode Island. The records of this state give a detailed account of those trying times in which John Crandall was an active participant. There were six sons and two daughters in the family of Silas and Rebecca Crandall, and Paul was the sixth child. The father, Silas Crandall, in partnership with his brothers, owned a fishing smack, called "Lucy," and was absent from home much of the time fishing for cod. At these times the mother and sons carried on the work of the farm, Henry, born in 1797, being the main dependence. In the war with Great Britain in 1812 the "Lucy" was shot to pieces in Long Island Sound by a British man-of-war. Other sources of revenue being necessary to supply the needs of the family, the father and older sons found work in the mills at weaving, while Paul attended school at Boston, Massachusetts, securing superior educational advantages. He was skillful with his pen and taught classes in penmanship. Among his pupils was Jonathan Alien, who later became president of the college at Alfred Center. In 1891 President Alien and wife made a tour of the Pacific Coast and were deeply grieved when they learned that "Uncle Paul" had passed away two years before. In the fall of 1823 the family of Silas Crandall, including the married son Henry, moved to Western New York, settling in Alleghany county, where a colony of Seventh-day Baptist people had already located. The town of Alfred Center became an important point and a college was established there. Henry and Paul secured land and began improvements; the land was heavily timbered and the work slow and arduous. On April 9, 1824, Paul was married to Sally Stillman, a resident of that locality. She was the third child and only daughter of Luke and Phebe (Greene) Stillman and was born January 5, 1809. On her father's side she was descended from Samuel and "Lady Jane Pickering" Stillman of Steeple Acpen, England. On her mother's side she traced her ancestry to John Greene, who came to America in 1639, and resided in Rhode Island, being one of the despised sect known as Baptists. General Greene, of Revolutionary war fame, came from the same family. For nearly sixteen years Paul Crandall toiled on his farm, seeking a livelihood. Sons and daughters came to them, some passing away in infancy. The mother, always frail, was unable to withstand the toil and care incident to her strenuous life and became a confirmed invalid, and most of the household duties fell upon Polly, the eldest daughter, assisted by her father and brothers. In spite of these handicaps the older children obtained a good education at Alfred Center College, enforced no doubt by the father's advice and influence. In 1837 a financial depression was general throughout the country, at the same time the newly opened section adjacent to the Great Lakes was attracting attention. Early in 1838 Henry Crandall, James Pierce and Hon. Joseph Goodrich made a tour of investigation through southern Wisconsin and were so well pleased that Mr. Goodrich purchased the land where the town of Milton now stands and Henry Crandall secured land one mile west, where the town of Milton Junction is located. This was in July and they spent about one month in working on their claims; then Henry Crandall returned to Alfred Center, closed up his business and with two lumber wagons, each wagon drawn by four horses, started with his family and household goods for Wisconsin. They were thirty-four days on the road and reached their destination, without accident or sickness, on November 16. For six weeks they lived in a small frame house which Mr. Goodrich had built on his place, while Henry Crandall and sons erected a double log house on the Crandall claim, into which the family moved just after Christmas. Paul Crandall was anxious to join his brother, but, lacking the means, secured a houseboat and with his family floated down the Ohio river, securing work from the settlements and towns along the river. Their boat was anchored at Marietta, Ohio, about the time the presidential campaign was at its peak, and the merits of Harrison and Tyier were loudly proclaimed. One of the songs, "Tippecanoe and Tyier Too," was extremely popular. Paul Crandall was an expert player on the flute and Polly had a strong, sweet voice, so their services were in demand as long as the campaign lasted. To Polly this experience always remained a happy memory of her youthful days. Soon after the election of Harrison and Tyier, Paul Crandall and his family embarked on a river steamer and joined their relatives in Wisconsin. Land was secured and a home established amid pleasant surroundings. Polly became one of the early teachers in that locality. On January 1, 1845, she was married to Thomas Lewis Coon, a teacher of ability and a member of a well known family. Paul Crandall was sent as a delegate from Polk county to a convention, to formulate the construction of Wisconsin and is known as one of the "Fathers of Wisconsin." In 1849 Henry Stillman, brother of Mrs. Paul Crandall, went to Oregon in search of a home, his wife and children remaining in Wisconsin. Thomas L. Coon had been failing in health, and in 1850, in company with Clarke P. Crandall (his brother-in-law) and D. Sherwood, Wm. P. Bentley, and Charles White, they made up a party of five and started across the plains as they supposed for California. Their outfit consisted of two covered wagons of the lightest kind, drawn by horses, two horses to each wagon and an extra horse for each man, except the drivers. They started March 17. Prom Fort Laramie, Thomas Coon wrote back in May, saying that "his health was better than it had been in many months and that his appetite was enormous." They changed their minds about the mines of California and came on to Oregon. In Marion county, east of Salem, they found land which pleased them. Clarke took a homestead, while Thomas Coon selected land further north on Silver creek. In adjusting the lines between the land of James Brown (an earlier settler) and the land selected by Thomas Coon, Mr. Brown voluntarily moved his lines over, so that Mr. Coon could have a certain desirable building site. This is an illustration of the neighborly kindness existing among the early pioneers. Henry Stillman had selected a piece of land east of Oregon City and soon word was sent to the families back in Wisconsin to come to their new homes waiting for them in Oregon, but it was not until March, 1852, that the start was made from Wisconsin. Paul and Sally Crandall had eight living children. Polly, their eldest, was only waiting for her husband's call; Clarke was already in Oregon and sending for them; Ray was married but was postponing the trip until 1853. Webster, eighteen years of age, was their main dependence, but was in love with a young and homeless orphan girl. They were too young to talk of marriage and he was unwilling to go without her. In this dilemma Mr. and Mrs. Crandall advised a wedding and Webster and Jane were married and started across the plains on their honeymoon. The other children were Phebe, fifteen; Amanda, thirteen; Emily, five; and Luke, nine. Polly Coon had one daughter, Cornelia, aged six, and her husband's brother, Samuel, aged fourteen years, who drove her wagon. On March 29, 1852, Paul Crandall, with his family of eleven persons, started from their home in Lima. They reached Plymouth on April 3, where they were joined by Mrs. Henry Stillman (commonly known as Aunt Charlotte) and her two children, Eunice, aged thirteen, and Jay, aged nine. Mrs. Stillman's brother, Henry Palmiter, was the driver for her wagon. In another wagon was Dr. Clarke Stillman, a brother of Mrs. Paul Crandall, with his son Tom, and J. Palmiter, a cousin of Henry Palmiter. Anson Goodrich, with three other men, completed their company. There were five wagons, twenty-two people, fifty-six head of cattle and one horse. The weather was stormy and cold, with some snow, and traveling very difficult. Ray Crandall accompanied the train as far as the Mississippi, when he turned back to his home. From the diary of Polly Coon we read: "April 19: Camped three miles from Cedar Rapids, with Aunt Charlotte very ill with inflammation of the lungs. "May 1: Aunt Charlotte has been very sick but is better. Crossed Cedar river at the rapids. "May 3: We were joined by some more Lima friends, Mr. Kinney and Mr. and Mrs. Heywood. We have now six teams and seventy head of cattle. Some have colds but all are in good spirits, with excellent appetites. "May 4: Some immigrants arrived at the ferry just ahead of us to cross the Iowa river; one wagon and part of the family had crossed. In attempting to go over with three yoke of oxen without having them chained to the boat, they backed off and sunk the boat, drowning three men, one a sixteen-year old son of the immigrant and two of the ferrymen. A fourth man succeeded in swimming out. One of the ferrymen leaves a wife and the other a widowed mother. I never felt more sympathy for any distress than for the immigrant who stood on the bank and saw one of his family sink in the swift water without being able to render any assistance." As they proceeded on their journey they encountered the usual thunder storms on the Platte river, where covers were torn off and everything drenched. They had a number of cases of cholera but nothing serious, although they passed many graves. Sam Coon was run over by a heavy wagon but was only bruised. The Indians were friendly but a nuisance with their constant begging. A white man in the train told an Indian, in a joke, that he could have Phebe Crandall. She was fifteen years of age and very handsome and the Indian was not a joker but followed the train for days hoping to get possession of her. In crossing the Sweetwater, Dr. Stillman was caught under an overturned wagon; he was rescued but the contents of his medicine chest were lost and no more medicine could be obtained. On July 6 they passed Independence Rock and were overjoyed to see the United States flag floating from its top. On July 30 they passed the junction of the California and Fort Hall roads, where a number of their companions left them for California. They pushed on to the west, following the windings of the Snake river. On August 12 Polly Coon writes in her diary: "The river is enclosed by a perpendicular wall of rocks; we are obliged to travel for miles in the heat and dust, with the sound of water in our ears and neither man nor beast is able to get a drop." She adds: "Dr. Weber has been sick several days and to-day's traveling has been very bad for him, so that we are obliged to stop at noon over a ledge of rocks somewhere near a thousand feet high and nearly a mile from the river. Our cattle are just able to creep down to water and grass." August 13 she writes: "Dr. Weber died about ten o'clock last night. For the first time our company has the sad duty of burying one of its own members. Jane is also quite sick and Samuel does not improve. "August 17: Jane continues sick; we fear we cannot travel with her. "August 17: Crossed river at Salmon Falls on ferry made of wagon boxes fastened together. Got over early with our sick ones. Jane is worse and unable to travel, the rest of the company, being very impatient, left us and went on, Dr. Maxon staying behind to attend to Jane. "August 19: Toward night we came out to a creek and camped two miles further on. Jane seemed better and we made about ten miles. "August 20: Were obliged to make fifteen miles to find water. In the afternoon Jane grew worse but still we have not thought her dangerous. The Doctor does everything he can but seems undecided about her disease. "August 21: Found Jane still worse, with a severe distress in her chest and shoulders. Thought it best not to start till she should be better, hoping a day's rest might benefit her, but the pain continued to increase until about three o'clock, when a change took place and she breathed her last. A deep affliction has fallen upon us, as well as on the thousands of others who have felt the stroke on this road. "August 22. We were obliged to perform the sad task of burying our own dead. We laid Jane in her narrow home by moonlight last night, after which we ate our silent supper by the same light and went to our beds." The wagon train moved on its dreary way, but not until Webster had taken his cherished violin from its case and fashioned the case into a headboard to mark the resting place of his beloved young wife. "August 23: Traveled 18 miles and suffered very much for water, the weather being very hot, but at night found a beautiful spring of cold water and camped early on a nice plat of grass. Many large camps around us." "August 24: Left camp early, about 8 o'clock; met Mr. Norton on a return for Dr. Maxon, as Mr. Luce was sick. The Muscatine people had left them and Coats and Clayton, as they said they could not be delayed by sickness. We overtook them at night, found Mr. Luce better. We passed a hot spring today, which to me is quite a curiosity. "August 25th: Made only twelve miles and camped on Charlottes creek, as it is eighteen miles to the next creek and our cattle seem too much jaded to travel that far today." Thus ends the diary of Mrs. Polly Coon, written on the plains in 1852. Many of their cattle had perished and those that remained were weak from lack of food and slowly climbed up the steep slopes of the Blue mountains. A messenger reached the Willamette Valley, and Henry Stillman and Clarke Crandall came to their relief with horses loaded with provisions. There was happiness in camp and tears of joy were shed at their arrival. The Cascade mountains were still ahead but the end was in sight and the fear of famine had fled. With fresh courage they conquered Laurel hill and came into the Willamette Valley. Mounted on horse, Polly Coon and her daughter reached the home of James Brown (now Silverton) and found the husband and father awaiting their arrival, too ill to go out with the relief party to welcome them, but overjoyed to have them near him again. When Paul Crandall and family started across the plains in 1852, his wife was an invalid and occupied a bed in the wagon. Doctors and sanitariums had failed to cure her and her case was considered hopeless. The outdoor life brought a miraculous change. A gentle riding horse, a family pet, had been brought along and on her back "Grandma Crandall" rode many miles, gaining strength all the time. Cornelia and Emily shared the pleasures of horseback riding and "Old Sally," the horse, was an important member of the train. Paul Crandall secured land adjoining that taken by his son Clarke. A comfortable log cabin and outbuildings for the stock were soon completed. Most of the cattle had perished on the way but a few of the faithful oxen remained and they helped to break the ground and start farming operations. The Davenports were neighbors on the south and Mrs. Davenport and Mrs. Crandall became inseparable companions and leaders in neighborhood work. Mrs. Crandall, instead of being an invalid, became a very successful and popular nurse and Dr. Davenport relied upon her skill for assistance in difficult cases. Thomas L. Coon taught the neighborhood school until failing health forbade. He passed away on January 10, 1854, at his home in Silverton. Mrs. Coon went to her mother's home, and there on March 4, 1864, a son was born, who received the name of Thomas Ray Coon. A few weeks later Mrs. Coon, with her two children, returned to her home on Silver creek. She sold a few lots from her claim and in filing the plat was asked for a name for the plat and gave the name of Silverton from the creek which flowed through the place; in this manner Silverton received its name. A postol'fice was established the same year at that place and was known as the Silverton postoffice. In the summer of 1854 Mrs. Coon taught the neighborhood school, leaving her son in the care of her mother, Mrs. Paul Crandall. Ray Crandall, with wife and child, arrived during the season. They had left Wisconsin in 1853 but had been delayed by sickness and spent the winter in Utah, where they had buried one child. Clarke Crandall was elected to the Oregon legislature of the session of 1854, and about that time was married to Miss Eliza Dunbar, daughter of Hon. Rice Dunbar, a pioneer of 1846. On September 27, 1855, Mrs. Polly Coon was married to Stephen Price, a millwright, who had built the Smith & Barger grist mills, Silverton. It was about this time that Paul Crandall taught the Silverton school and in 1856 built a new and substantial residence on their claim, to replace the log cabin of earlier days. At this time the Crandall home was known as "Mt. Ida" and was a center for many neighborhood gatherings, which included both old and young. Phebe Crandall became the wife of Isaiah Geer; Amanda married John Hutton, son of Dr. Hutton, and Webster chose for his new wife a daughter of Dr. Hutton, who died a year later. Phebe contracted tuberculosis and died at Mt. Ida, and Amanda passed away a year later, leaving a daughter, Ida Hutton. Ray Crandall's son died and his family moved to Portland and later to The Dalles. Eugene Crandall Price was born at Silverton on August 10, 1856. In 1855 a "republican reform ticket" was in the field. A nominating convention was held in Jackson county in May, 1856, and friends of the republican cause held a meeting at Albany on August 20, 1856, and declared for immediate organization and recommended a meeting for Linn county, to be held September 19, 1856, but nothing was done until November 11, 1856, when in response to a call of numerous citizens, a meeting was held in the schoolhouse at Silverton. The minutes state that "The meeting was organized by electing Hon. Paul Crandall, .president, and Orange Jacobs, secretary. The Philadelphia platform was adopted and a committee, consisting of T. W. Davenport, Rice Dunbar and E. N. Cooke, was appointed under the executive and corresponding committee, who are employed to call meetings and correspond with other detachments of republicans to the furtherance of republican principles and measures" (from History of Silverton Country, page 157, by Robert Horace Down). This was the first organization of the republican party in Oregon. Clarke Crandall engaged in newspaper work, and with his family moved to Salem, where he was employed on the Statesman; later he was city editor on the Oregonian, and still later edited the Salem statesman. He later moved to Washington, D.C., where he was employed in minor offices of the United States Senate. He died at Atlantic City, N. J., in August, 1893. Two sons survive, Edward of Oakland, California, and Harry, who is also a resident of California. In January, 1861, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Price moved from Silverton to Salem to give the children better school advantages. Cornelia and Thomas entered the Old Oregon Institute. In March the entire family came down with the measles and Mrs. Paul Crandall came from her home at Mt. Ida to care for them. She nursed them through their sickness and then contracted the disease herself. She had not the strength to resist its ravages and went into decline, dying in May, 1861. The Mt. Ida home was broken up. Luke was only 17 and he and Webster went to the mines. Webster came back several years later but Luke never returned, although he lived many years and for a long time kept up a correspondence with his father, promising that he would come home soon. Paul Crandall sold his home, and with his daughter Emily, fourteen years of age, and Ida Hutton, his granddaughter, three and one half years of age, went to Salem and made his home with his oldest daughter, Mrs. Price. Emily became a student at the Old Oregon Institute, married Professor Thomas Crawford in 1864 and was his assistant when he taught at Sublimity. Professor Crawford was a teacher at Willamette University in 1875, when a scourge of diphtheria took their three children in one week. The following year they moved to Portland, where he was employed as City Superintendent of Schools. On August 9, 1882, Emily Crawford passed away, leaving one daughter, who is a resident of New York. In the fall of 1869 Paul Crandall married Mrs. James Smith, widow of James Smith, who was always affectionately spoken of by his friends as "Uncle Jimmy Smith." The last days of Paul Crandall were peaceful and happy. He was tenderly cared for by his devoted wife, who outlived him many years. His death occurred at his daughter's home, south of Salem, January 9, 1889." From: Steeves, Sarah Hunt, BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE OF MARION COUNTY, OREGON, PIONEERS 1840 - 1860, Portland, Oregon, The Berncliff Press, pp 220-227;
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At the residence of L. B. Judson, on Prospect hill, south of Salem, January 9, 1889, at 9 o’clock p.m., Paul Crandall, aged 86 years, 3 months and 20 days. The deceased was born in New London county, Connecticut, and was a school teacher in his early days. He came with his family to Oregon in the year 1852, and settled in Marion county near where the town of Silverton now stands, afterwards moving to Salem, where, and in its vicinity, he passed the remainder of his life. Mr. Crandall was an original anti-slavery man, and was a delegate to the famous Buffalo convention in 1848 that nominated Van Buren and Adams as a presidential ticket. Capt. C. P. Crandall, for a long time editor of the STATESMAN, and once its proprietor, was the eldest son of the deceased. Oregonian and P.C. Advocate please copy.
Daily Oregon Statesman 11 January 1889 2:3
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Paul Crandall
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Sept. 20, 1802
Died
Jan 9, 1889
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Register of Burials
DAR pg 14
Marriage Records of Marion Co. Oregon, 1849-71, Vol I, pg 80 (Crandall/Smith)
1870 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., North Salem Pct., pg 63, FA #491)
1880 OR CENSUS (Marion Co., North Salem Dist., DW #63)
Steeves, BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE, pp 220-227
DOS 11 January 1889 2:3 OS 3 Jan 1890 (Necrology)
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