In Chittenango Thursday evening at 6:30 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W. S. Fenton, occurred
the death of Mrs. Isabelle J. Crenan.
Deceased was the third of eight children of the late James and Lucinda Brace Lambie and was born
in Hillsboro May 13, 1846. She was first married March 16, 1863 to Andrew W. Craig who died
December of the same year while serving in the Civil War. A son of Andrew L. Craig died in
infancy. June 9, 1875 she married Wm. H. Crenan and again became a widow Mar. 8, 1893.
Surviving her are three sons and two daughters, Claude J. of Syracuse, Leonard L. of New York
city and William who resides on the homestead, Grace a teacher in New Rochelle and Mrs. Flossie
Fenton of Chittenango who mourn the loss of a devoted mother. She also leaves five
grandchildren and the following sisters and one brother. Mrs. Charlotte Kinney of Green Forest,
Arkansas, Mrs. Jane Price and Mrs. Victoria Taylor of Camden and Mrs. Elsie Lockerby of Cold
Water, Mich., and Guy Lambie of Egypt, Arkansas.
Mrs. Crenan was one of the charter members of the First Presbyterian church of Camden and
although she transferred her membership to the Presbyterian church of Chittenango she was ever
interested in the welfare of her home church. She was much pleased when she learned that the
church was to be rebuilt. She was a woman who took great interest in the social life around
her and with her husband were charter members of Camden Grange.
The beautiful flowers and the many old friends who gathered at the family home in Hillsboro
Sunday afternoon bore silent testimony of the esteem in which she was held by all. She was a
noble Christian woman and Mr. Colson's talk on Christian Motherhood seemed especially fitting.
John Cook rendered very beautifully three hymns -- "Father Knows, " "Lead Kindly Light" and
"Beautiful Isle of Somewhere." Mrs. Crenan was laid to rest in the family plot beside her
husband in Forest Park cemetery.
Although she had been in poor health for some time the end came suddenly and cast a gloom over
the neighborhood where she had spent all the active years of her life.
CRENAN - In Chittenango, N.Y., March 23, 1916, Mrs. Isabelle J. Crenan, formerly of Camden,
aged nearly 70 years.
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