Hattie Lanritsen, Eva Sprague and Earle. They lived in Harlan, Iowa. They and their children are all deceased. CATHERINE JANE - married David Myers. There were eleven children, three died in infancy. Those who grew up were: John, Mary Bailey, Simon, Hattie Paige, Gercy, Frank, Barbara Goure and Jennie Gary. NOAH LUTHER - married Ida Melvin. They had eight children: Anna (Mrs. Claude Smith,Wells Is, Kansas), Marshall of Bennington, Robert who is deceased, Howard and Lynnwood, both of Kansas City, Kansas, Ida (Mrs. Earl Best, Cut Bank, Montana), Warren of Westmoreland, Kansas, and Doris (Mrs. Francis Mallon, Salina, Kansas). CHRISTINA SOPHIA - married George A. Miller. Their children are: Alfred R., Esther, George L, , and Ruth Waite. GEORGE WASHINGTON - married Ella Donahue. They had two children: Thomas, who died at birth, and Emeral (Shorty). George later married Maye Gawith. There was a daughter Zazil Bullock by this marriage. ALFRED GRANT - never married. MARY ELLEN - married James S Richards, who had three daughters by a former marriage: Gladys Brown, Hazel Richards and Lucy Richards. Molly and Jim had two daughters, Jennie and Enola Boner, now both deceased, and a son, Richard, who died when small. JOHN HARTMAN - married Martha Elizabeth Patterson. They had four children: Thomas Alfred, Grace (Mrs. Aden McGee), Lou, (Mrs. Leo Campbell, Minneapolis Kansas), and James Spenser of Craig, Colorado. RUTH AGNES - married Levi Taylor. Their children were: Fred, Matthew Levi, Nola Schmidt, Naomi Bladgett and Riley Davis, who was drowned at the age of 22. WEALTHA E. - married to Rhodes Cleavinger There were eight children: Rhodes D., who died at the age of 20, Archie, Carda Pleyer, Hattie Ritchey, Milton, Leslie; Georgia Freeman and Melvin. ROBERT LEROY - married Alice Owsley. There were four children: Florence Darg, Ethel Alley, Douglas and Jeanne Kellogg. FORREST DAVID - married Mary Jumpert. They had six children: Ruth Higday, Fred, Alma Sisson, Henry and a twin brother who was never named and who died when a few days old, and Martha Gawith. LILLIAN CONSTABLE - the last child died at birth Mary Constable died in 1904 at the age of 88. Alfred then made his home with his son  Forrest, until his death in 1916 at the age of 86. They are buried in the Bennington Cemetery, as are five of their children. Their children are all deceased; John H. being the last who died in March, 1962, at the age of 92. Many of their descendants still reside in the Bennington community and Ottawa County. Many other are scattered throughout the United States. Alfred had one brother, Phillip, and several other realtives who were drowned in the Johnstown flood on May 30,1889. Alfred's diary of the trip to Kansas CROW FAMILY Information for this family history was taken from the geneological record prepared by Blenda Kuhlmann in 1941 Joseph Crow was born December 26, 1832, in Ohio. On July 4,1854, he was united in marriage to Betsy Amelia Lyon at Columbus, Ohio, and they lived in Ashland County before moving to Kansas. Betsy Amelia Lyon Crow was born on August 13,1835, in Madison County, New York, later going to Ohio with her family. During the Civil War, Joseph and his brother, Will, each with a family of five, drew straws to see which one would enlist in the army. Joseph drew the short straw, thereupon enlisting in 1862 and leaving his brother, Will, to look after the two families. Joseph Crow was honorably discharged in 1865. On February 2,1871, Joseph and Betsy Crow with eight of their nine children arrived in Kansas That spring they settled on a homestead four miles north of Bennington where they lived until RETURN NEXT