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CRANE, WILLIAM CAREY
Republic of Texas Veteran
(1816-1885).

William Carey Crane, Baptist pastor, editor, and college president, was born in Richmond, Virginia, on March 17, 1816, the son of William and Lydia (Dorset) Crane.

After receiving lessons from private teachers he attended Mount Pleasant Classical Institute in Amherst, Massachusetts, and Virginia Baptist Seminary (now Richmond College). In 1833 he moved to New York and attended Hamilton Literary and Theological Institute and Madison (now Colgate) University. In 1834 he entered Columbian College (now George Washington University), from which he received an A.B. degree in 1836 and an A.M. in 1839.

Crane taught in Georgia from 1837 to 1839 and was ordained to the Baptist ministry in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1838 at the age of twenty-two.

During this period he married Alcesta Flora Galusha of Rochester, who died in 1840. In March 1839 he accepted a pastorate at Montgomery, Alabama, where he became acquainted with the family of Margaret Lea Houston. In Alabama Crane also met William Milton Tryon and James Huckins, who, together with Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor, later became the major organizers of Baylor University.

Crane married Jane Louisa Wright, also of New York, in 1841. Three years after her death in 1842, he married Catharine Jane Shepherd of Mobile, Alabama. The couple had nine children, eight of whom lived to maturity.

Crane died on February 27, 1885; he was the first Baylor president to die in office. He was originally buried in Independence, but in 1937 the Texas Centennial Commission had his body reinterred in the State Cemetery at Austin. Crane County is named in his honor.

Headstone Text:
William Carey Crane
Born In Richmond Va. March 17, 1816.
Died in Independence Tex. Feb. 27, 1885.
He gave his life to the cause of education and religion
in Ga. Ala. Miss. La. and Texas. The remains of Dr. Crane
were removed from Washington County and on February 26, 1937 Reinterred in this cemetery by the State of Texas
Footstone
President Baylor University
1863 - 1885

Source: http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fcr06

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10707857/william-carey-crane

Plot Section: Republic Hill, Section 1 Row: T Number:

Notes:

Son of Rufus Crane and Charity (Campbell) Crane.

Crane, William, merchant, b. in Newark, N.J., 6 May, 1790; d. in Baltimore, Md., 28 Sept., 1866. In Richmond, Va., where he resided from 1811 till 1834, he was distinguished for his zeal in promoting the religious welfare of the colored people. He was the founder of the Richmond African Baptist missionary society which sent out Lott Cary to Liberia, and he taught the first school for blacks in Richmond, and was one of the originators of Richmond college, giving to it $1,000. His benefactions to other religious objects were large. (Appletons' cyclopaedia of American biography, Vol. II, New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1887)

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34125576/william-crane

Plot Area X Lot 17

William married Lydia Dorset on 12 Jul 1812 in Perth Amboy, NJ. Lydia (daughter of Samuel Dorset and Elizabeth Stillwell) was born on 19 Jul 1786 in Perth Amboy, NJ; died on 26 Sep 1830 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA; was buried in Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, VA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32861751/lydia-crane

Plot Range 10 Section 11 Qtr 1 Row 1 Grave 2

Other Events:

• _MILT: Monmouth County, NJ; Private minuteman in the Monmouth County N.J. militia

Notes:

New Jersey Deaths and Burials, 1720-1988:
Name: Samuel Dorsett
Name Note: Source - History of St. Peter's Church by W. Worthy/Jones, Parish House, 183 Rector St., 1924
Event Type: Death, 1822. New Jersey
Age: 75
Birth Year (Estimated): 1747
Father's Name: Joseph Dorsett
Mother's Name: Mary Vandeventer

Birth:
Birth date on findagrave: 27 Jan 1748

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47317660/samuel-dorsett

Samuel married Elizabeth Stillwell. Elizabeth was born on 29 Sep 1821 in Monmouth County, NJ; died about 1829 in Monmouth County, NJ. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9624761/joseph-dorsett

Joseph married Mary Van Deventer. Mary was born in 1719 in Monmouth County, NJ; died on 5 Feb 1799 in Monmouth County, NJ; was buried in Dorsett Town Historic Cemetery, Morrell Corners, Monmouth County, NJ. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Mary and Joseph married abt. 1738 at Monmouth Co, NJ, and they were the parents of:
Elizabeth/29 Jul 1741 m. John Vanderbilt
Joseph, I/7 Mar 1742 m. Hannah Burdge
Nancy/1745 - 1838
John/1 Jun 1746 m. Sarah Pierce
Samuel/27 Jan 1747 m. Elizabeth Stillwell
Jane/1750 - 1847
Mary/21 Nov 1752 m. James Wall

Birth:
Birth date on findagrave: 5 Jul 1718

Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45076763/mary-dorsett

Mary and Joseph were the parents of seven children.