Elijah Crandall was born at Sandy Point, New York, June 5th, 1839, and died at his home in this village Sunday afternoon October 19, 1919, aged nearly eighty and one half years.
On August 2, 1862, he enlisted in defense of his country, serving until August 28, 1865, when he received his discharge. Two years later he was united in marriage with Miss Lucy Greene. In the fall of 1873 they moved to Hall county, Nebraska, where he had homesteaded some time before. Here they lived until in the fall of 1890 when they moved to this village and here they lived until death called them to another home. Uncle Lige had slowly failed in health for some months, so slowly that those who saw him the most hardly realized he was failing, and so he died as he had lived, quietly, troubling no one, asking favors of no one, ready to meet any condition which might await him. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at the church conducted by pastor A. L. Davis and the body was laid to rest by the side of his wife, six of his grand nephews, Ren, Ward, Clifford and Harold Goodrich, Sam and Ed Greene acting as bearers. The schools were dismissed that the boys and girls might pay their last respects to the one who during all the years of their school life in the village was their closest friend - one who always had their interests at heart. All the business houses of the village were closed during the funeral services as a further mark of respect.
