From the History of Seneca County New York "In the spring of the following year [1795], Mr. Crane brought on his wife and four children, and as the years began to pass and settlements to thicken, obtained the rewards of industry. His half-lot seemed not enough, and he was out in search of land to purchase, when unhappy fate led him to the cabin where he met his tragic death."

"On the morning of Dec 12, Mr. Crane and Ezra Degarmo, a settler on the same lot and a relative by marriage, together set out to select additional land. Crane resolved to go by the cabin where the Indian lay in ambush [waiting for another man, see source for more detail], and obtain some venison from the hunters. The white men came up, and Crane rapped at the door, and was immediately answered by the report of a rifle, and a ball passing through his left breast buried itself in his left shoulder, causing him to fall as though dead. Degarmo hastened away to spread the news and gather aid; meanwhile the wounded man recovered consciousness, and found his way to Asa Smith's house, where, after five days of suffering, he died."

"The Crane farm (section 48) and J. Crane (sec 48 and 61) both appear on an 1850 map of Tyre."

Ezekelial m (1) Abigail

2 Mary CRANE b Aug 1774 in NJ; d 31 Mar 1861 Morgan Cty, OH; m Ezra DEGARMO
8 Elizabeth DEGARMO b 24 Nov 1797 in NY

3 Abram Crane (There is an A.L. Crane in Junius in 1850)

4 Thomas CRANE

5 Lucinda CRANE

6 Sarah CRANE

+7 Jonas CRANE b 17 Apr 1803 in NY; d 18 Nov 1880 in MI; bur Old Wayne Cemetery, Wayne, Wayne Cty, MI.