Person:John Craun (3)

his parents were born in PA JOHN CRAUN, farmer, P. 0. Kansas, born in Franklin CO, OH. May 12, 1825, is third in the family of eleven children of Abraham and Rosana (Miller) Craun, natives of New Jersey, of German descent. Abraham Craim was a farmer, and came with' his family to Seneca CO, OH, in 1835. He entered land, and passed the remaining portion of his life here. His wife died in 1878, aged seventy-six years, and he died in 1883, at the advanced age of eighty-seven years. Abraham's father was in the Revolutionary- war. He died in Franklin CO, OH. Mrs. Craun's father lived to the age of one hundred and fifteen years, and died in Franklin CO, OH. John Craun was reared on a farm, received a common school education. and chose agriculture as an occupation. He has resided in Seneca CO since 1835. He began working by the month, to get a start in life, and, unaided, has made his own way in the world. He married, in 1836, Nancy Kinsey, a daughter of Joseph and Maria (Kiser) Kinsey, of Pennsylvania-Dutch extraction, and this union has been blessed with eight children: Samuel, a farmer and married; Jeremiah; Andrew, deceased, was a farmer, he left a family; Cornelius, a carpenter, in Kansas, OH, and married; Abraham, dealer in farming implements; Martha J., wife of Peter Stainbrook; Joseph, still residing with his parents; and Peter, a farmer and married. Mr. and Mrs. Craun are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he has been a class leader for many years; has also been Sabbath-school superintendent. Mr. Craun enlisted in 1864 in Company C, One Hundred and Twentysecond OH Volunteer Infantry, for three years, and was mustered out at the close of the war. In politics he is a Republican.