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Mary Ann Crawn (1843-1920)
Mary Ann CRAWN was born 1 Jan 1843 in Newton Twp, Sussex Co, NJ
to James CRAWN and Sarah
Ann KEEN.
Mary Ann married John
O HUFF while he was on leave from the Army Hospital in Newark
on 24 Dec 1864 in Sussex Co, NJ. John was her first
cousin once removed, being the nephew of her maternal grandmother
Elizabeth (Huff) KEEN.
Between 1868 and 1870 John and Mary Ann moved to Standing Stone
Twp, Bradford Co, PA. They had the following children:
- Rosebelle (1868-) married Joseph HARDENSTINE and had 5 children
- Mahlon O (1870-1939) -- no issue -- he was married once but
"it didn't take"
- Sarah Margaret
(1874-1940) who was variously called "Maggie", "Margaret",
and "Sarah" married Joseph Franklin WILLIAMS and had
9 children
Mary Ann died suddenly 10 Jul 1920 while she was collecting coal
from along the railroad tracks between Wysox station and the Narrows.
She is buried next to her husband in Keen Summit Cemetery.
O B I T U A R Y
| MRS. MARY HUFF KILLED BY TRAIN |
| Wysox Woman Meets Instant Death While Picking Coal
Along Tracks |
Mrs. Mary Huff of Wysox, 75 years old, was struck and insantly
killed by the Lehigh Valley work train Saturday morning about
6:30 o'clock just above the Wysox station.
Mrs. Huff had left home a few minutes before the accident
and was slowly walking along the tracks in the direction of
Wysox, picking up stray lumps of coal along the way. A freight
train, going in the direction of Towanda was approaching.
Mrs. Huff stepped off the west bound track in order to avoid
the oncoming train. The work train en route from Towanda to
Tunkhannock was coming along the east bound track at a moderate
rate of speed, but Mrs. Huff did not see or hear ot.
She stepped from in front of the west bound train directly
in front of the east bound train. The locomotive struck and
hurled her half way down the bank. Her head was crushed and
she was dead when the train-men reached her.
The body was removed to the Maryott understaking parlors.
Mrs. Huff is survived by three children. Mrs. G. A. Campbell
of Wysox, Mrs. G. B. Parks of Ulster, and Mahlon Huff of Wysox;
one sister, Mrs. C. M. Mingle of Ulster; and three brothers,
Abraham, William, and Nicholas Crawn of Towanda.
The funeral will be held at the home Monday afternoon at
1 o'clock. Further services will be held at the Keene Summit
church at 1:30. The Rev.W. K. Frisbie, paster of the Wysox
Presbyterian church will officiate. Internment in the Keene
Summit cemetery. |
| Source: The Daily Review, 13 Jul 1920, Page ? |
FAMILY TRADITION
| Peter Brown, great-grandson of Nicholas Crawn (1861-1946),
indicated that his grandmother Blanche Crawn Brown (1896-1991)
told the story "how Aunt Mary met her death in Wysox,
being struck by a train with such force that it knocked her
out of her buttoned-up shoes without undoing the buttons!" |
| Source: Peter Brown, 11 Aug 1998 (email) |
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