Pension File
HARVEY DANIEL CRANE, 1827-1910
Transcription by: Carolyn Schwab, submitted 19 Oct 2007
Original Application 19 pages
Pension Application #92196
- 20 APR 1868
- Resident of Newport, Vermillion Co, IN
- Aged 40 years
- Enlisted as Private Co. C 18 Indiana Volunteer Infantry
- Mustered as Sergeant 16 AUG 1861
- Made 1st Lieutenant 21 OCT 1862
- Made 2nd Lieutenant 15 JAN 1863
- Enlisted for 3 years
- Resigned 29 MAR 1864 due to disability from disease: Erysipelas of left
breast and arm
- Battle of Vicksburg, MS 22 May 1863
- Currently Sheriff of Vermillion County, IN
- Appointed BASKIN E. RHOADS Power of Attorney
- Witnesses:
- JAMES A. BELL, Vermillion Co., IN
- WESLEY CORDER, Vermillion Co., IN
- 28 DEC 1868
- Declaration for Arrears in Pension
- Original application was denied
- Now resident of Clinton, Vermillion Co., IN
- Appoints CARLIN HAMLIN of Indianapolis as his Attorney
- Witnesses:
- ANDREW J. ADAMS, Newport, Vermillion Co, IN
- FROST H. HEFFLEMAN, Newport, Vermillion Co., IN
- 3 OCT 1882
- Disability affidavit
- Age 54 years
- Resident of Clinton, Vermillion Co., IN
- Born in Vermont
- Came to Vermillion Co, IN at the age of 17
- Has lived in Vermillion Co, IN since then - except in California for 4
years
- Occupation Dry Goods Merchant
- Occupation since service sheriff and farmer
- Disability of left arm and breast
- Erysipelas in left arm and breast
- Caused by injury to left finger
- Applies sugar and iodine
- Flares up every summer and winter
- Witnesses:
ALANSON CHURCH
JOHN W. WASHBURN
- 4 MAY 1898
- Additional questionnaire
- Medical certificate 22 JAN 1862 also suffers from hepatitis
and malarial fever
- Not married - Was married to HANNAH HASKELL 12 APR 1865
(died 1 JUN 1884)
- Children:
OLIVER 11 FEB 1868
STEPHEN 16 DEC 1869
CLARA 1 MAR 1872
ALMA 27 MAR 1874
MARY 27 NOV 1876
MABEL 9 MAR 1879
- 10 FEB 1903
- Age 75
- Now a resident of Wichita, Sedgewick Co, KS
- More ailments
- Damage to shin and ankles
- Deaf in left ear
- Erysipelas in left arm and breast
- General debility
- 29 MAY 1903
- Affidavit as to leg and ankle injury
- Witness:
BENJAMIN S. FISHER Capt. of Co. K, 18th IN
Volunteers age 65
- 29 NOV 1904
- Affidavit of total disability
- Witnesses:
O.W. DAILY, Wichita, Sedgewick Co., KS age 35
T.J. MYERS, Wichita, Sedgewick Co., KS age 75
- 31 JAN 1911
- Died 29 DEC 1910
- Pension of $20 per month
- Left no widow or child under 16 years of age
- Funeral expenses left to 2 daughters
- Wants pension to pay funeral expenses
- 4 NOV 1910 29 DEC 1910
- Signed ALMA CRANE Wichita, KS
- 8 FEB 1911
- Dropped from pension rolls
- 13 FEB 1911
- Application for reimbursement of funeral expenses - $153.10
- ALMA I. CRANE, age 36, Wichita, Sedgewick Co., KS, daughter
- Cause of death: heart failure
- Sick for 2 months
- Nursed until death by daughters ALMA and MABEL CRANE
- Buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Wichita, Sedgewick Co., KS
