Orpha (Hamilton) Crandall 1813-1876
Categories: 1840's Settlers, The Sabbath Recorder Obituary
"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 32, No 10, p 3, Mar. 9, 1876.
In Faribault, Minn., of heart disease, on the morning of Jan. 29th, 1876, Mrs. Orpha Crandall, in the 63d year of her age. The deceased came to this city nearly twenty years ago, in company with her husband, purchased lots, built a house, and engaged in the millinery business. In time gave up this, and took up the fur business, in very short time securing a large trade, both selling and repairing. For many years she was the agent of the Singer sewing Machine Company. In her the poor found a friend; the sick received from her a mother's care, and thus by her kindness and ever ready self-sacrifice, she won the gratitude of many hearts. Always generous and benevolent beyond her means. She was a person of untiring energy; but few would have borne up so hopefully and cheerfully against an adverse fate; often experiencing the most severe reverses of fortune. Once her house was struck and badly injured by lightning. Twice came near being destroyed by fire, seriously injuring goods and furniture. Once a whirlwind tore out one end of her workroom, scattering goods and carrying many away entirely. And then, just two years before her death, came the terrible misfortune of her house being burned, sweeping at a breath all her earthly goods and every cherished keepsake of the past, with the exception of one picture of her beloved sister-daughter, which was at the artists to be enlarged, herself escaping from the flames badly burned, her night clothes all on fire. Still undismayed, alone, unaided by the friends of her younger years, she battled on, and upon the ruins of the house she had learned to love she built another. She never united with any religious society here, though ever extending her sympathies and assistance to all. At her burial no sect claimed her. Ladies from the different societies bringing rare and beautiful flowers and tastefully arranging them within and without her coffin home. The ladies of the Episcopal church furnishing two beautiful crosses to lay upon the coffin lid, and friends from all the churches bore her from her pleasant earthly home to her last resting place. G. G. H.

Census: 1880 Milton, Rock Co., Wisconsin: age 69, farmer

admitted abt 1830 - Alfred, New York
dismissed 2 Aug 1840

Constituent member of the Milton SDB Church in 1840.

In 1873 there is an O. M. Crandall farm in section 17 of Milton Township.

"The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 37, No 27, p 5, July 7, 1881.
Of pneumonia, June 3d, 1881, Mr. Oliver M. Crandall, in the 71st year of his age. He was born in Montville, New London Co., Conn. When a young man, he moved to Alfred, and united with the First Alfred Seventh-day Baptist Church. In 1840, he moved to Wisconsin, where he spent the remainder of his days. For years, he seemed to be ripening in grace, and died triumphing in hope. The following, clipped from the Janesville Gazette, expresses the opinion of the writer: "Again death has been among us, and since our last writing has taken from our midst one of our oldest and most respected citizens, in the person of Mr. Oliver M. Crandall, who died at his home one mile north of this village [Milton Junction] on Friday night at 11 o'clock, of pneumonia, at the ripe age of 70 years, although he appeared in health at least ten years younger. Uncle Oliver, as he was familiarly called, was one of the early settlers of this community, and few men indeed have lived and died in our midst more loved and respected in life and lamented in death than he. He was for some years connected with the mail service in the capacity of transfer agent of this station, where he won encomium from all. For three years past he has resided upon his farm. His funeral was attended at the Seventh-day Baptist church on Sunday last by perhaps the largest audience yet assembled there on such an occasion." N. W.