WILLIAM W. CRABB
William W. Crabb, age 71 years, of Loyalton, died in a Harrisburg hospital on Saturday.
Mr. Crabb was a son of William Crabb and Sarah [Welker] Crabb.
He is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Katie Ulsh, Tower City, and Mrs. Sadie Farnsler of Annville; and three brothers, Harvey Crabb of Wiconiso; and Edward Crabb and Lloyd Crabb of Loyalton.
Services were held from the Buffington Funeral Hone, Elizabethville at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, Rev. A. L. Zechman, pastor of the Lykens Valley Reformed Charge officiated and interment was made in maple Grove Cemetery, Elizabethville.
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William W. Crabb was the great-grandson of Peter Crabb (1787-1860) an African American blacksmith who was one of the first settlers of Gratz. William W. Crabb‘s father was a Civil War veteran.
From a local newspaper at the time of his death.
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[African American]