U.S. Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ -- USGenNet Inc. -- Please read the U.S. Data Repository Copyright Statement on the following page: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Crim, Fielding (1821-1875) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: Hardesty's Historical and Biographical Encyclopedia Author: H. H. Hardesty H. H. Hardesty & Company Publishers, 1883 FIELDING CRIM - deceased - was born in Harrison county in 1821, a son of Peter and Susan (Nay) Crim. His father, born in 1797, died December 13, 1864, and his mother, also born in 1797, died October 30, 1856. Fielding Crim first married Mary Cunningham who died April 24, 1851, leaving him one daughter, Malvina, who now is living in Wetzel county, this State. October 8, 1858, Fielding Crim wedded Elizabeth Martin, who was born in Monongalia county in 1841. She was a daughter of Daniel and Nancy (Bland) Martin, and her father, born in Harrison county, died January 16, 1872. The children of her marriage with Fielding Crim were six: Blackburn, born September 8 1859, was killed March 3, 1877, and the body was found in Buffalo creek, one and one-half miles east of Mannington on the following Sunday; Alonzo Newton, born October 28, Al William Sherman. November 21, 1863; twins, who died very young; Tabitha Jane, August 8, 1870; John, February 14, 1873. The husband and father of this family, Fielding Crim, died February 1 1875, of heart disease, contracted while serving in the Federal army, war of 1861. Alonzo N., the oldest living son, supports his mother and younger brothers and sisters, and is an employee of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at Mannington, Marion county, West Virginia. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Information: --------------------------------------------------------------------- (Son of Fielding Crim) Death Certificate, Marion County WV, Alonzo Newton Crim died 15-Apr-1943 born: 28-Oct-1861 in Harrison County son of: Fielding Crim and Elizabeth Martin widowed at the time of death Occup: retired Track Foreman Mwpps Burial: Bobbett Cemetery in Barrackville ---------------------------------------------------------------------