History of Branch county, Michigan, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . 1813, went West with his father to NewY^ork, and remained with him until twenty-one years of age,when he started for the then ? far West to make for himselfa home. In the spring of 1837 he came to Algansee town-ship, Branch Co., Mich., bought eighty acres of land, andthen returned East and was married on the 28th of Decem-ber, 1837, to Hannah Waterbury. In the fall of 1838 hebrought his wife to Michigan and settled upon the eighty-acre lot he had purchased in Algansee. B
History of Branch county, Michigan, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . 1813, went West with his father to NewY^ork, and remained with him until twenty-one years of age,when he started for the then ? far West to make for himselfa home. In the spring of 1837 he came to Algansee town-ship, Branch Co., Mich., bought eighty acres of land, andthen returned East and was married on the 28th of Decem-ber, 1837, to Hannah Waterbury. In the fall of 1838 hebrought his wife to Michigan and settled upon the eighty-acre lot he had purchased in Algansee. By this marriageMr. Crater became the father of four children, viz., Reuben,Martha R., Henrietta E., and Delos. Mrs. Crater died in1848, and in 1851 he was married to Elizabeth Craig, bywhom he also had four children, and on the 28th of June,1861, he was again left a mourner by the death of his 12, 1863, he married Catharine Depue, and by herhad two children. A third time the fell destroyer ofhuman happiness entered his household, and the third timehe mourned the loss of a faithful partner, for on the 21st.
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