Lloyd Rudolph Crandall was born in Ashaway, R.I., July 24, 1890, and died of influenza and pneumonia at the same place Jan. 9, 1919.
When three years of age he went with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Julian Crandall, to Elizabethtown, Tenn., where they spent ten years. Aside from these years his home has always been In Ashaway, R.I. After graduating from the Westerly, R.I., High School in 1908 he spent two years in Alfred University, N.Y. Then returning to Ashaway he entered business with the Ashaway Line and Twine Manufacturing Company. In a little time he became the secretary and treasurer of this company, holding the position till his death. He soon became a. leader in nearly all social, business, and public circles of the community. He proved his ability and efficiency in all these lines of varied activities. When our country entered the great world war he spent many sleepless nights debating the question whether he owed it to God and the cause of democracy that he enlist in the service. At length settling it in his mind that he had a larger duty with his home and local business and church and community, his heart was at rest while he put himself into promoting these interests. He headed the War Work and Red Cross drives in his town, and was most active in doing what he could to hasten a just conclusion of the war.
In 1905 he attended the Seventh Day Baptist General Conference in Shiloh, N.J., where he received such religious encouragement and inspiration that he requested and received baptism soon after. He united with the First Seventh Day Baptist Church of Hopkinton, R.I., in 1914. For some time he was president of the local Christian Endeavor Society, and was also president of the local Y. P. S. C. E. Union. He served some length of time as superintendent of the Sabbath school. At the time of his death he was president of the board of church trustees, which position he had filled for two years. All these places of trust and honor he filled with commendable earnestness, faithfulness, and efficiency,
On September 5, 1912 he was united in marriage with Mary Hulda Hill, daughter of Hon. Frank Hill, of Ashaway. There remain to mourn their loss his wife, two little girls, Elizabeth Jane, and Mary Esther, his father and mother, and two brothers, Julian T. and Marcus A., a sister, Harriett, all of Ashaway, and another sister. Mrs. Ernest Cole, of Winchester, Ky., besides many other, relatives and friends.
The funeral service was conducted from his home by his pastor, D. Burdett Coon, assisted by Rev. Clayton A. Burdick, of Westerly, R.I., and Rev. Geo. B. Shaw, of Yonkers, N.Y., both former pastors of the First Seventh Day Baptist Church of Hopkinton. Burial was made in Oak Grove Cemetery.
