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Chase County Obituaries
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Crum, George Washington
Word has been received of the
death at Van Nuys, California, of,
George Crum, one of the old residents of Chase county and in the time of twenty years ago one of the best
known men in the county.
From sometime in the 80's until he went to California he was a resident of Strong City and was always active in all public matters in the county. In 1919 he and his wife moved to California, principally on account of his health.
George Washington Crum was born near Elmira, New York, October 16th, 1842. He passed out of this life at Van Nuys, California, December 28th, 1923. His boyhood years were spent with his parents in New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois, as a miller in a grain and flour mill.
In April, 1861, at the age of nineteen yeare he enlisted in the U. S. Army in Company D, 85th Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry. Serving until honorably discharged on account of wounds, June 1st, 1863 having been shot through the elbow. In the fall of 1863, he took sixteen men with him to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and there joined Company B, 84th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, serving through to the close of the war. He was captured with many others, June 22nd, 1864, and was taken to Andersonville prison, from which he was paroled in March, 1865. He participatcd in many of the largest battles of the Civil War.
While home, after being wounded, he was married to Miss. Mary Elizabeth Chapel, who awaited his homecoming at the close of the war. They lived on a farm in New York, conducting a dairy and poultry business until 1879, when they came to Kansas, locating in Chase County near the Homestead neighborhood. He was postmaster at the Morgan Post Office for three years.
He moved his family and bought a piece of ground between Strong City and Cottonwood Falls and built a home in March, 1883, where they resided until in November, 1919 on account of his failing health, he and his wife, went to California to spend the winter with his son, George F. Crum, and family.
They then spent a year with each of their daughters, Mrs. Estella Huffmiller, and family at Portland, Oregon, amd Mrs. Inah Hilburgrer, and husband at Chehalis, Washington. They then went back to Van Nuys, California, and built them a home beside that of their son.
George W. Crum occupied many places of trust during his thirty-six years as a resident of Chase County. He served several years as Township Assessor, four years as County Register of Deeds, six years as Deputy Sheriff of the County, and numerous other minor positions. He was always a man to be depended upon. He was honest to a penny, and his word was as good as a note.
He was prominent in lodge work, being an honored Odd Fellow and a member of the ancient Order of the United Workmen for thirty-five years serving as secretary for over twenty years and as financier for
many years. He was an honored and respected citizen, a good neighbor and a loyal friend, ever ready to help in anything that was for thc betterment of mankind, the town or community. He believed in "Living and Letting Live" and practiced the"Golden Rule" among all men.
After settling at Van Nuys, California, his health was better for a
time, but he was not able to get around much, and in February, 1923, he had a light stroke from which he never wholly recovered. He gradually failed until in September, he was confined to his bed from which he never arose.
His daughter, Mrs. Bertha Plummer, gave up her work as timekeeper with the Santa Fe Railroad at Florence, Kansas, in April, and with her daughter, Miss Marion Plummer, came to help care for their father and grandfather in his last illness.
In April, 1923, during a visit from the Pastor of the Methodist Church, Mr. Crum accepted Jesus as his personal Savior and joined the Methodist
Church, of which his wife has been a lifelong member. He was a good husband and father, providing well for his household and their future. He was proud of his service for his country and felt that he had lived a full life, and as he often said, "More than his allotted years, three score years and ten,"years, as he had passed his 80 years and was ready to go.
Mr. and Mrs. Crum were the parent of seven children, three of whom have preceded their father to the Great Beyond, Stephen Leroy, who died in infancy in the state of New York; Clara lone, and Guy Leroy, who were fifteen and six years of age, died while the family lived near Homestead, Kansas; Mrs. Bertha Plummer and George F. Crum of Van Nuys, California; Mrs. Estella Hoffmiller of Portland, Oregon; and Mrs. Inah Hillburger of Chehalis, Washington, together with the widow, Mrs. Mary Crum, and eight granddaughters, beside other relatives and friends are left to miss his presence and council.
The body lay in state at the Van Nuys Funeral Parlors Sunday, where the funeral services were held Monday at 10:00 a. m. Dec. 31st, 1923; Rev. G. L. Goodell, Pastor of the Methodist Church of Van Nuys, conducting the services, assisted by singers f rom the Methodist Church choir. The floral offerings were many and very beautiful. The paul bearers were Brother Odd Fellows, and the Odd Fellows beautiful and impressive service was used at the grave, when the body was laid to rest in the beautiful Grand View cemetery, beside his little granddaughter, Eva May Crum, who passed to the Great Beyond one year ago.
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Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Jan 08 1924.
by your Chase County Host, Lorna Marvin.
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