Lewis Crane (1871 - aft. 1940) needs death date and burial detail

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Lewis was born in 1871. He was the son of James Crane and Cyrena Sykes. He passed away after 1940.

Needs collaboration finding death date and burial detail. 

Thank you

Note: sister in law Josephine E (Hutchings) Crane (1865 - 1955) father is mentioned in her obit during the “Quantrell Raid” as remembering events. 

WikiTree profile: Lewis Crane
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His brother Cyrus was a prominent Lawyer but not much is known about Lewis
Just connected the sister in law LNAB Hutchings to the main Wikitree

Family roots in Abolition

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Not what you were looking for, but here is a passing reference to Lewis Crane as a freight agent speaking at an event in 1922:

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93273100/

I stumbled across it and, because it's not obvious, thought that I would call it out.

P.S. Similar kind of references:

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93273318/

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93273461/

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Another passing reference to him:

https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/sn87070372/1936-08-06/ed-1/seq-4/

Look down the left column.

Also look at page the last page of this brochure under "Passenger Traffic Department"

https://wx4.org/to/foam/maps/2Wx4/005/1929-02-28NYC_NiagraFall_brochure.pdf

I’m sure he passed in New York. The only child listed in the census reports is a daughter Isabella S. Crane. Interesting he ends up in New York State
Definitely mentioned “The situation was succinctly summed up in a letter from Lewis Crane, division freight and passenger agent of the New York Central Railroad…”

Ah yes I see it. “Utica, New York Lewis Crane, Division Passenger Agent

He seems to have hidden after 1940.
Picking up the trail the daughter is only 15 but married in the 1920 census? No married name? Interesting

I think it's a mistake.  While I know that New York permitted young marriages later than a lot of states. the 1930 Census lists her as single.

P.S. Ancestry.com has a marriage record for Isabella S. Crane marrying Gregory H. Gaylord on June 27, 1931, in Utica.

https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=61632&h=3441447&tid=&pid=&queryId=5c5c50acaf5a8315d82bf07114aee5af&usePUB=true&_phsrc=qcN43898&_phstart=successSource

I would agree a typo in the census takers part. Maybe they have a gravestone but haven’t found any on findagrave yet

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