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Henry A. CROCKER
(1815 –1900)
Lucie BRANDT
(1818 –1892)
Dr. Julius F.P.E.G.B. CROCKER
(1854 –1923)
Hattie Belle C. GRIGGS
(1862 –1953)
Benjamin R. CROCKER
(1902 –1981)

 

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Spouses & Children

1. Elsie May BEARD

2. Bernice Marguerite BOYER
 3. Ruth Irene MELTON

Benjamin R. CROCKER 3 4 5
  • Born: 20 September 1902, Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, USA 5
  • Marriage (1): Elsie May BEARD on 16 July 1923 in Adams County, Illinois, USA 1
  • Marriage (2): Bernice Marguerite BOYER in 1931 in Brown County, Illinois, USA
  • Marriage (3): Ruth Irene MELTON in 1945 in Saint Louis, Saint Louis City, Missouri, USA 2
  • Died: 25 April 1981, Sarasota, Sarasota County, Florida, USA at age 78 6
  • Cremated: 1981, Largo, Pinellas County, Florida, USA 6

bullet   Cause of his death was renal failure (1 wk); cardiovascular collapse (3 wks); brain disease (1 mo).6

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bullet  General Notes

youngest of 8-12 children.  father was a doctor.  complained to his wife that she wasn't giving him any children (after a number of years), so then in short order they had a whole slew of them. 

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bullet  Death Notes

Doctors Hospital

bullet  Burial Notes

Cremation. National Cremation Society, 13655 Belcher Road, Largo, Florida, USA

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bullet  Recorded Events in His Life

  • His Social Security Number was 322-03-0779. 6
  • He worked as a bus driver. 7
  • He was buried at the Quincy Memorial Cemetery in Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, USA in 1981.
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Benjamin married Elsie May BEARD, daughter of Herbert BEARD and Kathryn KERNER, on 16 July 1923 in Adams County, Illinois, USA.1 The marriage ended in divorce in 1929. (Elsie May BEARD was born on 16 November 1901 in Kahoka, Clark County, Missouri, USA,7 8 died on 17 November 1983 in Lewis County, Missouri, USA and was buried in 1983 in Kahoka, Clark County, Missouri, USA.)

bullet  Recorded Events about their Marriage


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Benjamin next married Bernice Marguerite BOYER in 1931 in Brown County, Illinois, USA. (Bernice Marguerite BOYER was born on 20 September 1911 in Farmington, Van Buren County, Iowa, USA, died on 31 August 1963 in Farmington, Van Buren County, Iowa, USA and was buried in 1963 in Farmington, Van Buren County, Iowa, USA.)


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Benjamin next married Ruth Irene MELTON, daughter of Reuben Ephraim MELTON and Nellie Bly WHITE, in 1945 in Saint Louis, Saint Louis City, Missouri, USA.2 (Ruth Irene MELTON was born on 28 June 1914 in Ozark, Christian County, Missouri, USA 2 9 and died on 3 December 1984 in Quincy, Adams County, Illinois, USA 2 9 10.)


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bullet   Sources   bullet

  1. Kirsty M. Haining, Estimated date. Estimates are based off of known event dates (birth dates, christening dates, marriage dates, graduation dates, retirement events, death dates, etc.) from the lives of the individual's immediate ancestors or descendants. Women are estimated to be roughly 20 years older than the birth of the first child; men are about 5 years older than their wives; siblings are estimated at 2 years apart.
  2. Obituary.
  3. Kirsty M. Haining.
  4. Personal knowledge of Elden Eugene Richmond (1924 – 2017), family historian. Email Kirsty Haining for contact info for Elden.
  5. David Kabrick, County Lines: Genealogy hunt brings a smile to researcher (The Quincy Herald-Whig, Friday, May 14, 1993). Quincy Herald-Whig is a newspaper in Quincy, Illinois, USA. David Kabrick is a resident of Payson, Illinois, USA.
  6. Death Certificate (digital or paper copy of official death record privately held by Kirsty M. Haining).
  7. Birth Certificate (digital or paper copy of official birth record privately held by Kirsty M. Haining).
  8. Ancestry.com, 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910. NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls. Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC), Herbert Beard household, Lincoln, Clark County, Missouri, USA.
  9. Ancestry.com, Social Security Death Index [database on-line] (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration).
  10. FamilySearch, Illinois, Adams County, Card Index to Deaths, 1877 –1990, Database with images (http://FamilySearch.org : 2016. Original data: Adams County Courthouse, Quincy, Illinois), entry for Ruth Crocker, 03 Dec 1984 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKQL-GRVF : accessed 7 February 2016); FHL microfilm 1,839,127.


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