Re: Crandall's in Sonora/gold country-1860's
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Re: Crandall's in Sonora/gold country-1860's
Susie Kirby 8/03/10
Hi: I am very excited to talk to you.I have a lot of pictures also of Mary Jane Jones and her daughter Mary Charlotte.I also have some of her brother (Charlie?)I don't have the pictures out in front of me so the name may be off...I am researching my father's line also and they tend to blend.My email is [email protected] just found two newspaper articles about Dwight Crandall.He
was listed as a passenger in the NYTimes article and then there was another article in the San Francisco Chronicle about Mary Jane being destitute after the ship sank.All
their wordly possesions were on that ship and she was being sent via stagecoach to Portland with the children while Dwight took a passage on the steamer.My grandmother and my great grandmother always talked about this tragedy. Mary Charlotte talked about her last memory
of daddy coming back to their window after he left to peek at them as if he had a premonition.Please e-mail me and we can compare notes :-)
Jill B.