The Crain name first enters the family tree with Sallie Rebecca Crain, who married Charles Russell Garr. Sallie was the daughter of James William Crain and Celia Russell Hunt. The earliest known ancestor in the Crain line is John Scanland Crain who was born on September 1, 1700 in Spotslyvania, Virginia. John married Elizabeth Atwood, also born in 1700, in the year 1723 and the two were the parents of James Crain, born on February 10, 1727 in Spotsylvania, Virginia. James married Rebekah Beachem, born in 1723 in Northumberland, Virginia. James and Rebekah had a son named Samuel Crain born March 10, 17 in Culpepper, Virginia. Samuel married Eleanor Cluke, who was born in Culpepper, Virginia in 1761. They were the parents of William Crain, who became the first Crain in this direct line to be born in Kentucky with his birth in 1792 in Hillsboro, Kentucky. William was the father of James William and the grandfather of Sallie Rebecca, who brings the Crain name to this family tree. Sallie Rebecca was the mother of Charles Crain and Clyde Lewis Garr, and the grandmother of Elisabeth Headley and Charlotte Russell Garr.
Documents
This album includes the pages from an extended article about the history of the town of Hillsboro, Fleming County, Kentucky. Sallie Crain Garr pasted the clippings from this article into a book of poems, making a scrapbook of sorts. Members of the Crain family are mentioned in the article, as they were living in Hillsboro from the very beginning of the town.
PhotoGraphs
This is a gallery of photographs of Bernice Crain Garr, the wife of Clyde Lewis Garr, these span her childhood to her later life.
