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Ambrose Crain and Family
by Randy Crain

Joseph Addison Crain¹

Birth:	8 JAN 1831 in Covington, Illinois, United States ²
Death:	27 FEB 1917 in Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois, United States ³
Sex:	M
Father:	John Henry Crain b. 1 NOV 1801 in Knox, Tennessee, USA
Mother:	Indiana Higgins b. ABT 1810

School: 1849 in Attended West Point
0ccupation: Attorney
Census: 1860 in Stephenson, Illinois, USA
School (2): 1854 in Harvard Law School
Census: 1870 in Stephenson, Illinois, USA
Census: 1880 in Stephenson, Illinois, USA
Census: 1910 in Stephenson, Illinois, USA

Spouses & Children

Ann Vennette Sweet (Wife) b. 30 JUN 1840 in Stephenson, Illinois, USA
Marriage: 7 FEB 1860 in Stephenson, Illinois, USA ⁴
Children:
Katharine Crain b. 14 SEP 1860 in Illinois, USA John Sweet Crain b. 14 DEC 1864 in Illinois, USA Vennette Sweet Crain b. 30 SEP 1867 in Illinois, USA Charles Frederick Crain b. 21 JUL 1872 in Freeport, Stephenson County, Illinois, United States Ethel Gordon Crain b. 13 OCT 1876 in Illinois, USA

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CRAIN JOSEPH ADDISON M/W UNK 0040083 1917-02-27 STEPHENSON FREEPORT
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace J. Addison CRAINE Self M Male W 47 IL Lawyer FL KY Vennette CRAINE Wife M Female W 39 IL Keeping House NY NY Vennette CRAINE Dau S Female W 12 IL At School IL IL Charles F. CRAINE Son S Male W 7 IL IL IL Ethel G. CRAINE Dau S Female W 3 IL IL IL Mary GLEASON Other S Female W 22 IL Servant IRE IRE Maud GLEASON Other S Female W 19 IL Servant IRE IRE
1860 Stephenson Co, IL census page 78 listed as JA Crain - Lawyer - living in the household of his wife's family
CRAIN JOSEPH A 77 M W IL IL STEPHENSON 1-WD FREEPORT 1910
1900 census 1-wd Freeport - district 113 page 25 - list both his father and mother born in Georgia.
Crain, J A View Image Online Birthplace: Illinois State: Illinois Age: 39 County: Stephenson Gender: Male Township: Freeport Race: White Post Office: Freeport Year: 1870 Roll: M593_275 Page: 92 Image: 184
CRAIN JOSEPH A L4BL2NENW 16 01S 03W 3 09/10/1853 WASHINGTON CRAIN JOSEPH A L4NENW 16 01S 03W 3 09/10/1853 WASHINGTON CRAIN JOSEPH A L2BL2NENW 16 01S 03W 3 09/10/1853 WASHINGTON CRAIN JOSEPH A L1BL2NENW 16 01S 03W 3 09/10/1853 WASHINGTON CRAIN JOSEPH A L3NENW 16 01S 03W 3 09/10/1853 WASHINGTON CRAIN JOSEPH A L3BL2NENW 16 01S 03W 3 09/10/1853 WASHINGTON
1848 JA Crain was appointed to attend West Point. History of Stephenson County, Illinois.
Obituary Freeport Paper c. 1917 "Joseph Addison Crain born Jan 8, 1831 @ Covington, IL. His father was John Crain, who in 1830 married Miss Indiana Higgins who died at J.A.'s birth. His ancestors were a family of Crains of English stock, some of whom had early settled in Oglethorp Co, GA where may be found traces of them in county records and possibly some traditions of the family. From Georgia in 1812, Mr. Crain's grandfather, Benjamin Crain, emigrated into Kentucky soon afterwards to the then Illinois Territory and settled upon, and improved a farm near Kaskaskia, and there reared a family of 10 children, among whom was the above mentioned John Crain, born Nov. 1, 1801, who, on his marriage as above mentioned first resided for a time at a Covington and thereafter in 1830, opened up a farm in Washington Co, near Nashville, its present county seat, and there lived and died a farmer, at the age of 71."
Portrait & Biographical Album of Stephenson County, Illinois - 1888 J.A. Crain is a well-known attorney of Freeport......... A part of the Crains, then, settled in Oglethorpe County, Georgia from whence some of the more adventurous younger generation, in the Indian War days, removed to Kentucky. In 1801 one of them, whose Christian name we are sorry to say we have forgotten wishing to withdraw himself from, to his taste, the effete civilization with which he deemed himself hemmed in, with his family of nine girls and six boys again removed to where he had more elbow room, and where Indians were plenty, into what was then the Illinois Territory. He located in Randolph County, within a few miles of the old French trading-post of Kaskaskia, at that time the seat of the Territorial Government. Among his family were Milly, Thomas and Benjamin; Milly married Francis Garner, and in the course of time the discovery of the lead mines at Galena, where fortunes were supposed to be made suddenly, drew Thomas Crain and Francis Garner with their families into northern Illinois, where Garner settled at Cherry Grove in Carroll County and Thomas Crain finally located at the place near Freeport which took the name of Crain's Grove. Both of them in 1832 were volunteers in the Black Hawk War. After 1818, in which year Illinois became a State, John Crain, one of the sons of Benjamin, removed in 1827 to Washington County..........
Joseph Addison Crain born January 8, 1831 (an only child) Covengton, Washington County, Illinois son of John and "Anna". J. A. married 1860 Miss Vennette Sweet, daughter of Hon. Martin P. Sweet. J. A. was an attorney by profession. Joseph died February 27, 1917 age 86 years. J. A. and Vennette had five children Kitty died February 1864 John Sweet, died November 1866 Vennette S. who married Carl Nelson Moller a resident of St. Louis, Missouri, Charles F. died September 1897 and his wife died January 1918. Ethel G. who married Douglas Pattterson 18 April 1900 the two eldest died in infancy.
There is an extremely lenghty obituary for Joseph Crain including a photograph of him and obits for some of his children. J. A. also attended West Point as a Cadet in 1849.
More About Joseph Addison Crain: Death Certificate: February 27, 1917, #0040083, Freeport, Stephenson Co. Illinois Military service: 1849, Cadet at West Point Occupation: Attorney
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Title: Randy Scott Crain
Title: Death Certificate
Title: Illinois Statewide Death Index, 1916?1950
Source Text: CRAIN JOSEPH ADDISON M/W UNK 0040083 1917-02-27 STEPHENSON FREEPORT
Title: Illinois Marriage Index-1763?1900
Source Text: CRAIN, J ADDISON SWEET, VENNETTE 02/07/1860 / 15 STEPHENSON