avid I. CRANDALL's first memory of his father was his return from the War Of The Rebellion on crutches. He received a miniball through the leg.
He sent for his son, David, before he died and asked him to pray with him. He had been a "hard man". David told me that he had never had ice cream as a child, only one pair of shoes a year, and once when he hung up his stocking at Christmas, his father put a lump of coal in it.
REF: CRANDALL genealogy: 8th generation
NOTE: according to his Civil War Pension files he was 5'4" tall.
Buried in Wood River Six Principle Baptist Church Cemetery in Wyoming, R.I. with both his wives and two of his children. [Crandall homepage]
