Edith Permilia Crane

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• Religion: Member of Universalist Church

Family/Spouse: Emerson Leroy Surface. Emerson was born on 24 Sep 1887 in Harveysburg, Warren County, Ohio, United States; died on 2 Sep 1950 in Jamestown, Greene County, Ohio, United States; was buried in Sep 1950 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. William Edward Surface was born on 5 Aug 1920 in Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States; died on 15 Aug 1920 in Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 17 Aug 1920 in Warren County, Ohio, United States.

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OBITUARY.....
William Wallace Crane born April 29, 1852, died January 25, 1913, was the son of Joseph Crane. His mother was Rebecca Pence who still survives him at the age of 85. Besides this aged mother he leaves a wife and daughter, Miss Edith , two sisters, Mrs. James Wills of Dodds and Mrs. William Linder of Miamisburg, also a brother John Crane of Richmond, Indiana. It is a painful duty to record the death of one who has lived so much for others; one who has given so much friendly counsel and timely aid to those whose mental horizon was depressed by a sunken sky; one who has been a dutiful son to the aged parents and in the home an agreeable companion, straightforward and affectionate in nature. Yet it gives pleasure in reviewing a life so well rounded as if he had lived to a ripe old age. A life so filled with exuberant spirits when extending hospitality to friends and neighbors. We recall today his openhearted cheeriness of manned and the charm of his conversation, sparkling with wit and anecdote and "His greeting smile was a pledge and prelude, of generous deeds and kindly words." The deceased felt the big degree of responsibility involved in all his duties aiming to understand justice and doing it. The voice of sorrow is unanimous throughout this and adjoining counties, where he has come in contact with men in various lines of business. None knew him but to love him and this alone teaches us to know well in the germ of his character for his life and principles are traced to the fountain of his heart. Rev. Hillstron officiated, interment at Corwin.

William married Laura Permelia Lackey on 12 Mar 1879 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. Laura (daughter of Richard Lackey, Jr. and Permelia Dyke) was born on 17 Oct 1853 in Ridgeville, Warren County, Ohio, United States; died on 3 Nov 1935 in Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 5 Nov 1935 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census: 1860, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Laura Lackey, in the household of Richard Lackey
• Census: 1870, Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Laura P. Lackey, in the household of Richard Lackey

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Several of the young roosters, were wending their way to ex-Treasurer Lackey's place of residence last Wednesday night a week, to witness his daughter flee to the realties of holy wedlock. The ceremony was complemented, as it were, with severe belling. [March 18, 1879 Miami Gazette Vol. XIX No. 38]

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• Occupation: Real Estate Appraiser
• Census: 1850, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Richard Lackey farmer, head of household
• Census: 1860, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Richard Lackey, farmer, head of household
• Newspaper: 28 May 1868, Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States; Income Tax Payers; Address:
  The Western Star
• Census: 1870, Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Richard Lackey, retired farmer, head of household

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Medical: He was injured in a farming accident and walked with a cane ever after.

Richard Lackey, Jr. was born in 1811, and was married in 1832 to Permelia Dyke. He is the father of eight children, of whom one son and the daughters are living. Mr. Lackey was for 12 years Township Treasurer: for four years, County, Treasurer; Real Estate Appraiser in Turtle Creek Township and has filled the offices of Justice of the Peace and Township Trustee for several years in this Township. [Source: W.H. Beers, Chicago, 1882., "The History of Warren County, Ohio", (reprint, Evansville, Indiana: Unigraphic, Inc. 1972), pg. 599, Clear Creek Township.]

August 21, 1843 - Tavern license issued to Richard Lackey in Harveysburg.

Newspaper:

The following are the names of persons in Warren county who have incomes exceeding $1000. The figures given show the amount of income in addition to the $1000 which the law exempts from taxation:
Lackey, Enos——————— 592
Lackey, Richard—————.111
William B. Sellers————.168

Richard married Permelia Dyke on 6 Sep 1832 in Warren County, Ohio, United States. Permelia was born on 5 Jan 1817 in Red Lion, Warren County, Ohio, United States; died on 5 Mar 1898 in Ridgeville, Warren County, Ohio, United States; was buried in Mar 1898 in Corwin, Warren County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Permelia Dyck
• Census: 1850, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Parmelia Lackey, in the household of Richard Lackey
• Census: 1860, Clear Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Permelia Lackey, in the household of Richard Lackey
• Census: 1870, Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio, United States; as Permelia Lackey, in the household of Richard Lackey

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Red Lion took its name from an 1817 sign put by Mr. Holly - it was a wayside hostelry and in 1823 the hamlet took its name from this tavern. The sign suspended from a tall pole, a large picture of a lion redder that a cardinal's robe.

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• Military: War of 1812
• Name: Richard D. Lackey
• Occupation: Farmer
• Probate: 11 Apr 1848, Warren County, Ohio, United States

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Richard and Sarah moved from Kentucky to Ohio with the Harlans, and settled on land about a mile east of Ridgeville. He purchased land of Heighway, who, like Symmes, could not pay for it, and it reverted to the Government; those who had bought of him had to pay for their land again. (see note below)

NOTE:
The Symmes Purchase, often called the Miami Purchase, is located in the southwestern corner of the state. During 1787 and 1788, the Ohio Company and John Cleves Symmes had purchased millions of Ohio acres on credit from Congress and were permitted to pay one-seventh of the price in federal bounty-land warrants. In 1792, Congress modified this contract. On September 30, 1794, President George Washington signed the U.S. Patent (deed) conveying to Symmes 248,250 acres. Symmes paid $70,455 in public securities for 105,683 acres and used military bounty land warrants, totaling 95,250 acres, to acquire the remaining 142,857 acres. Because Congress allowed one third of a dollar off for bad lands and incidental charges, Symmes actually paid two-thirds of dollar per acre.

By the time Symmes heard that Congress had not granted him all the land that he had asked for, he had already sold much of the land which was not really his. In the hopes that Congress would eventually grant him the rest of the land between the two Miami Rivers, he continued to sell to the incoming settlers during the 1790's. Samuel Heighway was one of the surveying party who came up the Little Miami Valley to survey the lands under the Symmes Contract.

The federal government decided that the land ownership dispute had to be resolved in the Miami country. Congress delineated very specifically which lands had been sold to Symmes and thus were legal sales, and which lands still belonged to the U.S. government and would have to be bought again. Between March of 1799 and March of 1804, Congress passed five Symmes Land Acts which stated, in essence, that all people who had bought tracts of land from the speculator John C. Symmes would be allowed to keep their land if they would apply to the U.S. government for a patent, pay $3.00 to have their tract surveyed, and pay $2.00 per acre on all land they claimed. [Source: W. H. Beers & County, Chicago, "The History of Warren County, Ohio", Clear Creek Twp., pg. 599]

Richard married Sarah Harlan on 23 Aug 1793 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, United States. Sarah (daughter of George Harlan and Margery Baker) was born on 5 Jun 1774 in Chatham County, North Carolina, British Colonial America; died after 1815 in Warren County, Ohio, United States; was buried in Waynesville, Warren County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Religion: Society of Friends (Quaker)
• Will: 23 Aug 1793

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August 4, 1783 - Hopewell Monthly Meeting, Frederick County, Virginia, pg. 398, Sarah Harlan, received on certificate from Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, Orange County, North Carolina, dated March 2, 1782

August 23, 1793 - Redstone Monthly Meeting, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, pg. 91, Sarah Lackey, late Harlan, disowned, married out of unity.