For Descendants of Christopher (Doc) Cranston & Bess Melby
Josephine Park Cranston writes to her niece, “Josie” (Doc’s elder sister who is 20 years old) about the declining health of Uncle Stephen who is the son of John Cranston who emigrated to Ohio from Rhode Island in 1815. Uncle Stephen at that time would have been 92 years old, having been born in 1793. […]
Read More…Josephine Park Cranston says that “Crane” and “Stone” pendant would initiate the name Crane-Stone. Creative.
Read More…This appears to be the first of Josephine Park Cranston’s compositions describing a city. It seems clear that these were created while she was in school, but what school or year, I do not know. She was born in 1864 so by 1880 she would have been sixteen years old. ~ CCJ
Read More…Josephine Park Cranston writes a newsy letter to her Scottish relation and pen pal wishing him good health and hopes that his visit to America will be forthcoming. She wishes him a “Happy New Year!” ~ CCJ
Read More…Josephine Park Cranston was SUCCESSFUL in getting the autograph of Oliver Wendell Holmes – January 2, 1882.
Read More…This is one of many of the Josephine Park Cranston “compositions.” I’m sure it was written while she was a student in school – and it certainly was written while she was visiting Dayton, Ohio. She compares Dayton with Cincinnati – Dayton does not have so much black coal smoke. No EPA in those days, […]
Read More…This is a lengthly letter written by George Cranston of Edinburgh, Scotland to Josephine Park Cranston. It describes the “Cranston Line” starting around 1170. George Cranston was trying to help Josephine with the geneology of the Cranston family. He tried and failed to get responses from his relatives to Josephine’s inquiries. He did succeed, however, […]
Read More…“Josie,” actually Josephine Parke Cranston was the daughter of Charles Edward Cranston (Chris’s father) and the niece of Josephine Park Cranston, Charles Edward Cranston’s sister. “Josie” was “Aunt Jo” to Marion, Helen, Bill and Tip and appears to be the favorite niece of Josephine Park Cranston. It was to “Josie” that Josephine Park Cranston gave […]
Read More…This is a composition by Josephine Park Cranston on “Friendship.” It is worth a good read and careful thought. ~ CC
Read More…Sometime in the 1890s, Josephine Park Cranston assembled what she called the Cranston “Genealogical Descent in America.” She traces the history of the Cranstons from Governor John Cranston through the son of Peleg Cranston, John Cranston. One of John Cranston’s children was Christopher Cranston (Charles Edward Cranston’s father and Josephine Park Cranston’s grandfather). Other […]
Read More…Josephine Park Cranston provides her family with a rewrite of the announcement of the wedding of Orpha Cranston to Rev. J.P. Farmer in Oregon on 21 October 1896. Orpha Cranston was the grand daughter of Ephraim Cranston who migrated to Oregon in 1850-1851 and whose letters are posted.
Read More…Josephine Park Cranston writes a letter to the superintendant of public instruction (for what school I do not know) urging him to introduce the school’s assembly to the “improved geographical aids” which Josephine thinks could be quite useful. What these are, I don’t know, but Josephine volunteers to supply her with several boxes of them.
Read More…This letter was written to Josephine Park Cranston by her father, Christopher Cranston, from Woodstock, Ohio on October 17, 1858 about three weeks before he died on November 8, 1858. Josephine’s mother was Irene W. (Nott) Cranston – Christopher’s second wife. His first wife, Lora, was the mother of Charles Edward Cranston – Josephine’s half […]
Read More…This is a newsy letter from Josephine Park Cranston who lived in Woodstock, Ohio to her brother, Stephen Charles Cranston who had moved to Galesburg, Illinois. In the letter, she talks about purchasing a suit for Stephen – the price? $6.00
Read More…George Cranston of Edinburgh, Scotland writes to Josephine Park Cranston on December 17, 1872. He expresses his frustration with his relatives in Scotland for not responding quickly to Josephine’s requests. He points out that there was an Abbot Thomas Cranston at the Gedburg Abby in the year 1490. The letter makes George’s frustration clear.
Read More…John Cranston was the son of Peleg Cranston. He was born on November 3, 1755 in Rhode Island and later moved to Woodstock, Ohio where he died in 1825. He married Phoebe Ann Edwards on April 4, 1791 and one of their children was Christopher Cranston who was the father of Charles Edward Cranston (Chris’s […]
Read More…Josephine gives a very descriptive picture of Louisville – mentions the frequent fires and attributes their probable cause.
Read More…This is a touching poem written by Josephine Park Cranston on the death of a friend. I don’t know who the “friend” was – but it appears that the friend was a male.
Read More…Josephine Park Cranston received a letter from K (can’t read the name) Park of Worthington, OH about studies.
Read More…This is fun. Josephine P. Cranston received a letter from George Cranston of Glascow, Scotland seeking Ralph Waldo Emerson’s autograph. Josephine sent it on to Emerson – I don’t know if she (or George) ever received the autograph. But at least Josephine had the enthusiasm to try. She lived in Knoxville, Illinois at the time […]
Read More…Josephine P. Cranston’s relative, LHB Park, writes a letter to his mother (Charles’s aunt) about his loneliness as a soldier in the Union Army in Virginia and asks her to write. He composes two poems – “The Potomac” and “Spring.” He was the son of the brother of Charles’s mother and therefore a second cousin […]
Read More…Josephine P. Cranston wrote a short history of the Cranston family. This was found in here possessions after her death in 1905.
Read More…This is a “Description of the Character of Josephine P. Cranston” written by Dr. James P. Jackson of Danville, New York. March 1866. Josephine never married and was Christopher (Doc) Cranston’s aunt and daughter of Christopher Cranston (Chris’s grandfather) of Woodstock, Ohio and sister of Charles Edward Cranston (Chris’s father).
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