Moved to Marion county, Ohio, after 1814; in 1850 moved to DeWitt County, IL, where he died at age 75 (differs from Crandall book)

Listed in Ohio 1859 Federal census; Ross County, Green Township; page 234; ID#OHS6a852685

Marriage listed in Ross County, Ohio marriage records; Fort Wayne, Ind.: Fort Wayne Public Library, 1975, 937 pgs.


1880 United States Census
Marital Birth B-place
Name Rel Status Sex Race Age place Occup Fa Mo
Washington CRANDALL Self M Male W 65 NY Farmer RI CT
Anna CRANDALL Wife M Female W 65 OH Keeping House VA VA
Clarisa CRANDALL Dau S Female W 30 OH At Home NY OH
Eliza A. CRANDALL Dau S Female W 18 IL At Home NY OH

Source Information:
Census Place Friends Creek, Macon, Illinois
Family History Library Film 1254229
NA Film Number T9-0229
Page Number 424B

1854-1954 Maroa Centennial, Page 121
Located at the Decatur Genealogical Society
(Illinois-Macon-Centennial--# 15)
WASHINGTON CRANDALL
Washington Crandall was born of Scottish parents in Circleville, Ohio, in 1814. He came to Illinois in 1852 and settled near Maros. He was a United Brethren minister serving the Shiloh and Cumberland churches until he moved to Maroa at the age of 66. He was the father of Susann (Bowden) and Christopher C. Crandall. Mr. Crandall died in 1888, having been preceded in death by his wife in 1885.
Susann Crandall came with her parents from Ohio at the age of thirteen and lived with them on a farm five and one-half miles east of Maroa. Four years later she came to Maroa to make her home at the I. C. station with the Crocker family. There were at the time only four residences in Maroa.
When the Civil War broke out, Susann returned to the farm home of her parents to help her father with his farm work. Her two elder brothers had joined the Union Army and a third brother was in Medical College preparing to become a physician. At that time mail was received from Monticello and Susann took her turn posting and bringing the mail.
After the war she came back to Maroa and remained with the Crocker family until her marriage to Elias P. Bowden in 1865. Mr. Bowden started to work in the Crocker grain elevator in 1867, before the plant was complete. In a year or two he became foreman, following W. J. Compton, and remained in that capacity until the elevator was torn down to be replaced by a larger and more modern structure in 1911.
Mr. and Mrs.. Bowden were the parents on nine children, three of whom survive: B. L. Bowden of Dubuque, Iowa, and Arthur V. and Iva ( Mrs.. George H. Malone) of Maroa. Mr. Bowden died in 1912 and his wife in 1920 at the age of 80.
Christopher C. Crandall was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1841 and came to Maroa vicinity with his parents in 1852. In 1861, with many other young men, he enlisted in the 41st. Illinois Volunteers in Co. A and went to the front. He was taken prisoner in 1863 but never interned in a prison, being moved from place to place with the enemy's camp and finally exchanged. He was mustered out at Springfield in August, 1864.
In 1878 Mr. Crandall married Martha Daves of near Cisco and they went to housekeeping in the northeast part of Maroa where they lived the rest of their lives. they had two sons, Claude and Paul, who now live in California.
Mr Crandall lived in Maroa for forty years and for thirty-eight years of that time served continuously either as Justice of the Peace or as police magistrate. He died in 1914.

Anna’s parents came from Virginia. Her father, Abel Jones, served in the War of 1812.