William Carey Crane

1816 - 1885  (68 years)

• Name	William Carey Crane  [1]
  Born	17 Mar 1816	Richmond, VA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	27 Feb 1885	Independence, TX   [1]
  Buried	Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, TX
  	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10707857/william-carey-crane Plot Section: Republic Hill, Section 1 Row: T Number:
  Person ID	I3009	Kreider Moyer
  Last Modified	23 Oct 2020

  
  

  Father	William Crane,   b. 6 May 1790, Newark, NJ ,   d. 28 Sep 1866, Baltimore, MD  (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Lydia Dorset,   b. 19 Jul 1786, Perth Amboy, NJ ,   d. 26 Sep 1830, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA  (Age 44 years)
  Married	12 Jul 1812	Perth Amboy, NJ
  Family ID	F1165	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 17 Mar 1816 - Richmond, VA Died - 27 Feb 1885 - Independence, TX Buried - - Texas State Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, TX  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  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 [2]

  
  

• Sources

  [S52] Sons of American Rev application. [S38] Find A Grave database.