The Cranston Family – The Cranstons

The Battle Mountain Auto Camp (BMAC)

The Place Bess and Ole Melby Bought when they Sold the Ranch This is a mini-history of what the parents of Marion, Helen, Bill and Tip did when they sold their ranch and left for the Black Hills to enter the tourist business. The Battle Mountain Auto Camp (BMAC) sat on the north side of […]

by Charles Cranston Jett

Charles Edward Cranston and Katurah Taylor Park

Charles Edward and Keturah Cranston Charles Edward Cranston was born April 19, 1833, at Woodstock, Ohio, Champaigne County, and died at Galesburg, Illinois, on August 5, 1805. He married Keturah Taylor Parke on March 15, 1860 in Milford Center, Ohio. She was born on March 30, 1835 and died on September 18, 1902. A certified […]

by Charles Cranston Jett

Locations of Cranston Family – North Dakota and South Dakota

These are the locations taken from Google Earth of the various places where the Cranstons Lived in North and South Dakota. The location is the North Dakota / South Dakota state line and to the west is the Montana State line. This is the overview Another Overview Relationship between Painter Ranch and the Willett Place […]

by Charles Cranston Jett

Christopher and Elizabeth (Bess) Children

by Charles Cranston Jett

William Randolph Cranston

This was written by Helen Cranston Peterson about “Uncle Bill.”