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Facts and Events
| Name |
George Jay Crandall |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
12 Aug 1839 |
Brookfield, Madison, New York, United States |
| Marriage |
5 Jun 1862 |
Brookfield, Madison Co., New Yorkto Elizabeth Ann Champlin |
| Occupation? |
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Minister |
| Death[1] |
20 Jul 1905 |
Milton Junction, Rock, Wisconsin, United States |
| Burial[1] |
23 Jul 1905 |
Milton Junction Cemetery, Milton Junction, Rock, Wisconsin, United States |
| Religion? |
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Seventh-Day Baptist |
GRAD: 1874 Alfred, Allegany Co., New York: Alfred Theological Seminary
Census: 1880 Lynn, Clay Co., Nebraska: age 41, farmer
Cause of death: Nephritis & uraemia
Lived in : Alfred, NY; Richburg, NY; W. Hallock, Ill; NorthLoup, Neb; Ashaway, RI; and Milton Jct, Wis
Pastor of the Milton Junction, Wisconsin church 1899-1905.
The Milton Journal", Milton, Wisconsin, Thursday, July 27,1905, p 1. obituary on file
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "The Seventh-Day Baptist General Conference Year Book 1901-1905".
Rev. George Jay Crandall, son of Jared B. and Alzina Maxson Crandall, was born in Brookfield, N. Y., Aug. 12, 1839, and died in his 66th year at his home in Milton Junction, Wis., July 20, 1905. He was converted at about ten years of age, joined the Second Seventh-day Baptist Church of Brookfield, and, when quite young, decided upon the Gospel Ministry as his life work. This work he began in July, 1862, at Watson, N. Y., and continued until within two or three weeks of his death; forty three years of continuous, earnest, successful work for the Master whom he loved with unswerving devotion. During this time, after Watson, he served the churches at West Genesee and Richburg, N. Y., West Hallock, Ill, Harvard and North Loup, Neb., Ashaway, R. I., and Milton Junction, Wis. in the last of which he had been the beloved pastor for six years. If the details of this long period of service could be written, the sermons preached, prayer-meetings held, pastoral visits made, converts baptized, funerals attended, marriages solemnized, etc., it would not only give something of an estimate of the labor performed by this faithful servant of God, it would help, also, to show why he was held in such reverent affection by the people wherever he lived.
He was always tremendously in earnest, appealing to a quickened conscience and candid judgment; and, with him, there was no compromise upon its decrees. In all his work as a minister he was sympathetically and ably seconded by his wife, Elizabeth R. Maxson, to whom he was married June 5, 1862. Although an invalid for many years, her cheerful faith has ever been an inspiration, and she has not failed to find very many ways in which to be a true, faithful help-mate. To them were born six children, four of whom remain to care lovingly and tenderly for the mother. In the death of Eld. Crandall out people have lost another of our valiant standard bearers, always at his post, ever undaunted, with a firm unfaltering faith in the goodness and power of God, and of the final triumph of his truth.
- Mrs. L. A. Platts, Chairman of the Committee.
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