----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard N. Kinkead" <[email protected]> To: "Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 8:37 AM Subject: Re: [IALUCAS] CHARITON STUNNED -- DEATH OF F.R. CROCKER > Nancee- > > Yet another bingo. Frank Crocker's wife, Mary Elizabeth Arnold, was a first > cousin by marriage. > > Does anyone here know what became of her after this whole affair? Her > children? > > Dick Kinkead > Lantana, FL
18 Oct 2004 These tidbits from Frank Myers: Crocker's father-in-law was Capt. Stephen Arnold, who with his wife moved into the Crocker house (now Fielding Funeral Home) with Mrs. Crocker. While working in the carriage house, which still is behind the funeral home, he fell off a ladder and broke a hip, dying shortly thereafter during January of 1908. So there was certainly no shortage of tragedy involved in this affair. I believe that Mrs. Crocker (and her mother) moved to Minneapolis during 1908, soon after Stephen's death. Stephen was badly damaged in the bank crash, too; and lost the grand old house he built --- on the northeast corner three blocks south of the square where South Grand and Highway 14 meet. The Arnolds built that house, then lost it. Stephen Arnold was quite a character himself who along with old Jacob Myers during the late 1870s and early 1880s managed to lose quite a bit of other people's money with their Papago Chief Mining Co. adventure in Arizona. Both of these guys were small stuff, of course, when compared to the Mallorys. Smith Mallory and others had a competing mining operation going at about the same time, so lots of Lucas County money went down the drain, too, in silver speculation. Gary W. Tharp Long Beach, CA [email protected] -------Original Message------- From: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert Date: 10/18/04 17:47:16 To: [email protected] Subject: [IALUCAS] MARY ELIZABETH (ARNOLD) CROCKER -- Note from Dick Kinkaid . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard N. Kinkead" <[email protected]> To: "Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 8:37 AM Subject: Re: [IALUCAS] CHARITON STUNNED -- DEATH OF F.R. CROCKER > Nancee- > > Yet another bingo. Frank Crocker's wife, Mary Elizabeth Arnold, was a first > cousin by marriage. > > Does anyone here know what became of her after this whole affair? Her > children? > > Dick Kinkead > Lantana, FL ==== IALUCAS Mailing List ==== David, [email protected]: Lucas County List Administrator, Website Coordinator, Lucas County IA Genweb - http://www.rootsweb com/~ialucas/Main.htm ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237