This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FBB.2ACE/1042.1.2 Message Board Post: My research indicates that Willie Crase was born on 23 Sept 1879 and that he died on 28 July 1974. These dates come from from a cemetery book that I have. It states that he is buried in the Riley Bentley Cemetery on Rt.7, in Deane, Letcher Co. KY. It appears that his second wife, Mary Baker Crase is buried next to him in the cemetery; born 14 Oct 1881 and died 25 Aug 1957. KDI Name: Willie Crase Death Date: 28 July 1974 Death Place: Letcher Age: 094 Residence: Letcher Volume: 46 Certificate: 22547 ----------------------------- SSDI Name: Willie Crase SSN: 407-32-9109 Last Residence: 41838 Millstone, Letcher, Kentucky, United States of America Born: 23 Sep 1879 Died: Jan 1974 State (Year) SSN issued: Kentucky (Before 1951 ) ---------------------------------- KDI Name: Mary B Crase Death Date: 25 August 1957 Death Place: Letcher Age: 075 Residence: Letcher Volume: 39 Certificate: 19485 ---------------------------- Also listed in the cemetery are the following: Carter Amburgey, and wife Lavenna Crase Amburgey; Ines and Leonard Crase; and Henry Wallace Crase to mention a few. >From here, I believe that Willie is the s/o Monroe and Dicey Crase. A family tree posted on the internet states that Dicey's maiden name is Collins, and that she died on 27 Nov 1900...and that Monroe Crase, referred to as M.M. Crase married Mary Alice Baker on 23 Nov 1901 in Letcher CO KY. I later found a census record which also indicates that this is correct. 1900 Letcher CO KY Census Mag Dist # 3 - Rockhouse Precinct # 56-56 Munroe Crase, head, 40, Mar 1860, md 23 yr, farmer, KKV .Dicy, wife, 40, July 1859, md 23 yr, 12 kids-10 liv, KKK .Hayes R., son, 21, Apr 1878, single, farmer, KKK .William J., son, 20, Sept 1879, single, farm laborer, KKK <-- .Lizabeth, dau, 15, Aug 1884, single, farm laborer, KKK .Ada, dau, 11, Apr 1889, single, farm laborer, KKK .Luisa, dau, 09, Feb 1891, single, KKK .Millard, son, 07, Dec 1892, single, KKK .Herman, son, 05, Nov 1894, single, KKK .Martha, dau, 04, Feb 1896, single, KKK .Warney?, son, 02, Dec 1897, single, KKK ------------------------ I found Monroe Crase's death certificate and it stated that he was the s/o James Crase and Eliza Stallard. 1870 Letcher CO KY Census Prec # 3 - Whitesburg Post Office # 96-96 James Crase, 35, farmer, Ky .Elizabeth, 29, keeping house, Virginia .Carline, 12, female, Ky .Marien, 10, male, Ky .Campbell, 07, male, Ky .Henry, 05, Ky .Monroe, 02, male, Ky ------------------------------- Hope that this helps...