Dayton and Cora

Father: Lee Dayton Crandall	Mother: Cora Deve Herald
Birth date and place: July 22, 1884 Thayer County, Nebraska	Birth date and place: April 11, 1882, Republic County, Kansas
Death date and place:11 December, Mt. Ida, Arkansas	Death date and place: April 8, 1920, Thayer County, Nebraska
Marriage date and place: April 13, 1905, Thayer County, Nebraska	Marriage date and place: April 13, 1905, Thayer County, Nebraska
Parents:Daniel Crandall, Olive Almina Moore	Parents: Kenis Pharoah Herald and Frances America Goble

Notes:Dayton knew and worked at many trades. He was a painter, a butcher, and for quite a while in the 1920's and 1930's a carnival actor and ran many stands in the carnival. Cora died in childbirth and he married Leila Prewitt, who is the only grandmother the granchildren knew. Dayton and Leila had one child, Duane Allen Crandall. After world war two Dayton and Leila and Duane moved near Mt., Ida, Montgomery County, Arkansas where both are buried. Cora Herald Crandall is buried in the Chester, Nebraska, cemetery.

About 1912 there was a litery/debating society formed in Byron. Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Crandall seem to have beensome of the most active participants.
They even debated each other once.
These are articles in the newspaper of the time and each is is a clickable link to a copy that is large enough to read. The Crandall versus Crandall writeup is the third from left.(Files are high resolution so will take about 30 seconds to a minute to load, depending on the speed of your internet connection.On a Pc use the shift/click if you want them to open in a separate window you can close and be back here.)

census records
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1910

1920

Other newspaper articles, in order by date. Some have members of the Herald and Goble families as well as Crandall's, especially when news of both families appeared on the same page and I bunched them together.

Small town newspapers seem to report news of the activities of
the communities and the rural communities thereabouts.
Cars were new inventions in those days, so trips any distance were news and happenings with cars were certainly news.
Most trips would have been made by train or horse and buggy.

I got copies of these from the microfilmed copies at the Nebraska State Historical Society. They do not have every issue nor every year. I was not able to find any from the 1920's, but did find these from 1907-1912.The articles refer D.A. or Daniel Austin, who was Dayton's father and Clark C, or CC, his grandfather as well as to Dayton.

March 15, 1907	March 15, 1907 (business ad)	April 5, 1907	May 17, 1907	May 31, 1907
August 16, 1907	November 15, 1907	January 3, 1908	June 5, 1908	June 19, 1908
December 14, 1908	January 1, 1909	January 29, 1909	March 5, 1909	March 19, 1909
March 26, 1909	April 16, 1909	April 30, 1909	May 14, 1909	May 21, 1909
June 11, 1909	November 18, 1909	November 18, 1909 business ad	December 31, 1909	January 14, 1910
January 28, 1910	April 8, 1910	May 27, 1910	August 26, 1910	December 23, 1910
January 6, 1911	January 20, 1911	June 2, 1911	June 9, 1911	June 9, 1911 Correct date is June 9,made error in photo program.
June 23, 1911	July 21, 1911	August 11, 1911 business ad	August 11, 1911	October 27, 1911
June 21, 1912

Children:

Name:	Birth and Death	Spouse
Clark Coryl Crandall	April 23, 1907 Carleton, Thayer County, Nebraska June 1975 (LA,Ca)	Ruth Hiekes Hazel Smith
Frank Harvey Crandall	August 6, 1908 Belvidere, Thayer, Nebraska 1962, Mt. Ida, Arkansas	Abbie Christian Swain
George Robert	January 25, 1911 Byron, Thayer, Nebraska February 5, 1984 Chicago, Illinois	Wilma Kresabac
Harold Glen	June 25, 1912 Byron, Nebraska	Ann?
Greta Rose	September 2, 1913 Harbine, Republic, KS June 4, 1998 Wymore, Gage County, Nebraska	William Milton Pressnall Raymond Albert Bernadt
Marion Lucille	June 26, 1916, Byron, Thayer, Nebraska 1981, Chicago, Ill	Alexander C. Wells
Coryl Deve	April 8, 1920, Byron, Thayer Nebraska February 16, 1921, Byron, Thayer, Nebraska