NameAngelia Thankful CRANDALL157,138,474
Birth31 Jan 1849, Persia, Cattaraugus Co., New York
Death11 Jun 1923, Burkett, Hall Co., Nebraska
Burial13 Jun 1923, Hillside Cemetery, North Loup, Valley Co., Nebraska
ReligionSeventh-Day Baptist
FatherWilliam CRANDALL (1806-1888)
MotherNancy Ann BABCOCK (1812-1874)
Spouses
Birthabt 1845, Ohio
Death1895
BurialHillside Cemetery, North Loup, Valley Co., Nebraska
Marriage1867, Brookfield, Linn Co., Missouri
Notes for Angelia Thankful CRANDALL
Census: 1880 Clyde, Cloud Co., Kansas: age 31

of North Loup in 1910, of Grand Island in 1917

"The North Loup Loyalist", North Loup, Nebraska, Friday, June 15, 1923, p 1.
Angelia Crandall Mosier was born at Persia, New York, January 20, 1849, and died at the Soldier's Home at Burkett, Nebraska, June 11, 1923, aged about seventy-four and one half years.
She was one of a family of nine children, all of whom have preceded her in death except one sister, Mrs. Arlie Thorngate of this place.
When she was about seven years of age her father's family moved to Dakota, Wisconsin, where she grew to young womanhood. Later the family moved to Brookfield, Missouri. While living in Missouri she was united in marriage with Byron Mosier. To this union was born one son, Oscar, of Denver, Colorado.
Mr. and Mrs. Mosier lived in various places until the death of Mr. Mosier in 1895. Since that time she had lived most of the time at North Loup and Burkett.
For nearly thirty years she was a cripple and was unable to walk. Tho suffering great pain, yet she was ever cheerful, and those who went to her to give comfort went away comforted themselves because of her cheerfulness, her optimism. During these years, of suffering, tho her hands were twisted out of all shape and it was with great difficulty that she could hold a pen, she wrote many, many letters and had a large list of correspondents and she wrote an almost perfect hand.
As an inmate of the Soldier's Home she was often spoken of as "the angel of the home." She wrote many, many letters for those who could not write, read to those who could not read, comforted those who needed comforting.
"Aunt Gelia", as she was familiarly called, had many sorrows and disappointments aside from her physical ailments, yet she bore them all uncomplainingly, bore them as a Christian should bear them. She never complained. She told the writer one time when he called on her at Burkett that it had been more than four years since she had been out of her room to go out of doors. Tho she was not a member of a church yet in her girlhood days she had a rich Christian experience which was with her throuout her life. Her sympathies were with the church of her parents, the Seventh-day Baptist.
The body was brot here Tuesday night for burial and Wednesday afternoon funeral services were held at the home of her nephew, R. G. Thorngate and where the remaining member of the family, aunt Arlie Thorngate has her home. The services were conducted by pastor Schmidt of the Evangelical church and the body was laid by the side of her husband in the Seventh-day Baptist cemetery. Music was by a quartet of young girls. The flowers were in charge of Mrs. Hannah Watts, superintendent of the home department of the Seventh-day Baptist Sabbath school of which Mrs. Mosier had been a faithful member and loyal contributor for many years.
Notes for W. Byron (Spouse 1)
Census: 1880 Clyde, Cloud Co., Kansas: age 34, working pottery
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