Ancestry of
Stephen Crane

Author of The Red Badge of Courage

Joseph Crane

View famous kin of Joseph Crane

• • Great-grandfather of Stephen Crane — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 8 
  • Father:
  • Stephen Crane 
  • Mother:
  • Phebe -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 May 1752 
  • Birth Location:
  • Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey 
  • Christening Date:
  •  
  • Christening Location:
  •  
  • Death Date:
  • 15 Jul 1786 
  • Death Location:
  • Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  •  
  • Spouse Name:
  • Susanna Ross
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Apr 1772 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Monmouth County, New Jersey 
  • Child:

  William Crane (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Additional marriages for Joseph Crane

  ---

  • Spouse:
  • Margaret Van Vechten
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 1781

• Sources for Joseph Crane

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A027446 and #A027481.
  • ² New Jersey Deaths and Burials, 1720-1988, Death record for Joseph Crane.
  • ³ New Jersey, County Marriages, 1682-1956, Marriage record for Joseph Crane and Susanna Ross.
  • ⁴ Stephen Crane Studies, Blacksburg, Virginia: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1995, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 10-11.
  • ⁵ Crane, Ellery Bicknell, Genealogy of the Crane Family, Vol. II, Worcester, Massachusetts: Press of Charles Hamilton (1900), 473, 480.
  • ⁶ Hill, Frank Alden, The Mystery Solved: Facts Relating to the Lawrence-Townley, Chase-Townley, Marriage and Estate Question . . ., Boston: Rand Avery Company (1888), 66.
  • ⁷ Lee, Francis Bazley, Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey, Vol. I, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1910), 23-24.