What bits and pieces of facts do I know about James B. Crail Jr.?
(1) From the 1880-1900 census records and death certificate of his son John, James was born in Ohio. If James was the eldest of James and Margaret Crail and born about 1809 - his parents were in Southern Ohio at that time, perhaps married there enroute to Kentucky.
(2) He resided with his parents in Pendleton Co., KY until 1820 when James Sr. moved to Indiana [Harrison Co. 1820s. Washington Co. 1830]
(3) By about 1832, James was married, probably in Ohio, to Mary A. Jones.
(4) His two eldest sons, Sylvester [1835] and John [1837], were born in Hamilton Co., OH. Tax records support this time frame.
(5) Aaron was born in Marion Co., OH in 1839.
(6) Shelby Co., IN tax lists suggest that he was in that county with the rest of the family. George's birth certificate states that he was born in Miami Co. [well north of Shelby] in 1843.
(7) On 28 Nov 1849, a James B. Crail & others deed the site for the building of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Colerain Twp., Hamilton Co., OH.
(8) From 1851-1854, James and Mary were in Marietta, Shelby Co., IN [town lot deeds].
(9) Census, marriage, military records and city directories place Sylvester, John and Aaron in Hamilton and Marion Counties, IN from 1854-1875. [Aaron had died in 1868; Sylvester married in Johnson Co.- bordering Shelby - in 1854.]
(9) From 1875-1887 [her death], Mary A. [Jones] Crail was residing in Indianapolis.
(10) James died between 1854 and 1875, probably in Central Indiana.
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