SHORT HISTORY OF DANIEL CROM (George Crom's Grandfather)
         
Daniel Crom was born and reared in Oxford County, Penn., spending his boyhood 
days on the parental homestead.  He married Miss Barbara Oberdorf, also a native
of Oxford County, and in 1820 started for Wood County, Ohio, making the entire
journey by ox-team.  He took up a tract of land which he cleared and then sold,
later removing to Center Township, where he entered from the government 160 acres
of land.  One-half of this he cleared, and the remaining eighty he sold.  Upon 
the part which he retained he erected a dwelling and barn, planted a five-acre 
orchard, and made other excellent improvements.  For several years he served 
his township as trustee, as supervisor, and as school director.  He died on the
old homestead in 1864.  His wife passed away in Center Township in 1890.
They had the following children who reached mature years: John, who died while 
serving in the Civil War; Annie, wife of Aaron Phillips, of Bowling Green, Ohio;
Joseph, of Oklahoma; Mary, wife of Henry A. Olds; Aaron, a farmer in Portage
Township; Simeon F.; and Martha, wife of Levi Loomis, a farmer of Kansas."

Copied from the Wood Couty, Ohio, History (page 1237).  The subject of the 
report was SIMEON F. CROM.  I copied only the part about Simeon's father, 
Daniel Crom, as Daniel Crom was George Crom's Grandfather.
                  
George Crom remembers that his grandfather Daniel was also a Methodist 
Preacher, and used to ride on horse back when the roads were bad.

RDB note: I haven't researched that thoroughly, but I hadn't heard of 
_Daniel_ being a minister...