Husband: Jesse Wilson CRAIN
Birthdate: 28 AUG 1833 (1)
Birthplace: Buncombe Co., NC (1,3)
Death date: 29 JUL 1900 (1)
Place of death: Navarro Co., TX
Father: Albert CRAIN (4,5)
Mother: Martha Ann BEAVERS (1,3)

Marriage date: 1 MAR 1856 (6)
Marriage place: Greene Co., TN (6)

Wife: Mary Jane GOSNELL
Birthdate: 1839 (2)
Birthplace: NC (1,2)
Death date: 15 SEP 1874 (1)
Place of death: Muskogee, IT
Father: Jacob GOSNELL (1)
Mother:

CHILDREN

Child No. 1: Martha Ann CRAIN
Sex: F
Birthdate: 9 AUG 1857 (1,7)
Birthplace: NC (1,2)
Death date: 11 NOV 1938 (7)
Place of death: Whitney, Hill Co., TX
Marriage date: 15 FEB 1880 (8,9)
Marriage place: Hill Co., TX (8,9)
Spouse's name: John Lafitte FREEMAN

Child No. 2: George Washington CRAIN
Sex: M
Birthdate: 31 MAR 1860 (2,9)
Birthplace: Polk Co., TN (2,9)
Death date:
Place of death: Dallas, Dallas Co., TX
Marriage date: 12 JAN 1880 (9)
Marriage place: Hill Co., TX (9)
Spouse's name: Emma Welch (9)

Child No. 3: Sarah Jane CRAIN
Sex: F
Birthdate: 6 APR 1753
Birthplace: TN
Death date:
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Child No. 4: William Jefferson CRAIN`
Sex: M
Birthdate: 2 APR 1864 (1,9)
Birthplace: TN (9)
Death date: 22 JUL 1936
Place of death: Weatherford, Parker Co., TX
Marriage date: 6 AUG 1882
Marriage place: TX
Spouse's name: Nancy Ann Fitzgerald

Child No. 5: Jacob CRAIN
Sex:
Birthdate: 25 APR 1868
Birthplace: Wilson Co., TN
Death date: FEB 1876
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Child No. 6: Thomas Perry Crain
Sex: M
Birthdate: 22 JUN 1872 (1,9)
Birthplace: MO (9)
Death date: 3 OCT 1897 (1,10)
Place of death: Johnson Co., TX
Marriage date:
Marriage place: TX
Spouse's name: Nannie Cavender

Child No. 7: Clara Florence CRAIN
Sex: F
Birthdate: 25 MAY 1874
Birthplace: IN
Death date: 1876
Place of death:
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Documentation:
(1) Martha Ann Crain's Eastern Cherokee application, 1907.
(2) 1860 TN census.
(3) 1850 Buncombe Co., NC, census.
(4) Jesse Wilson Crain's Cherokee citizenship application, 1894.
(5) Buncombe Co., NC, Heritage, Vol. II, p. 145.
(6) TN marriage records.
(7) Tombstone of Martha Ann Crain and John Lafitte Freeman, Whitney Memorial Park, Hill Co., TX.
(8) Hill Co., TX, marriage records.
(9) 1880 Hill Co., TX, census.
(10) Cleburne, Johnson Co., TX, newpaper article, 12 NOV 1897.

Notes:
* Martha Ann Crain and John Lafitte Freeman's family listed under Freeman.