Wordless Wednesday: Runyan Siblings 1955

Grace Anna (Runyan) Crim and her brother, my maternal grandfather,
Lawrence Everett Runyan, Indiana 1955

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Sunday's Obituary: Oral Perry Crim 1879-1953

                                       ORAL P. CRIM

National Road Traveler
dated 24 Dec 1953

     Oral P. Crim, 74, of southeast of New Castle, died Friday morning in his home after a brief illness. He was a lifelong resident of Henry County and a retired employe of the Chrysler forge division. He worked thirty-one years at the Chrysler plant before his retirement. He was a member of the New Castle Baptist Church.

     Survivors include his wife, Grace; a daughter, Mrs. Lyle Redelman of New Castle; two sons, Paul E. of New Castle and Clyde C. of New Lisbon; two grandchildren and a sister, Mrs. John Beavers of Springport.

Oral P. Crim 1942

     Funeral services were held Monday with the Rev. G. W. Hurt in charge. Burial in South Mound Cemetery.

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     Oral was the son of Miles and Lorinda (Sanders) Crim. He was married to Grace Anna Runyan, the sister of my maternal grandfather, Lawrence Everett Runyan. Oral was also married 8 years to Blanche K. Bond who died in 1908.

Oral's memorial at FindAGrave.com can be seen by clicking on the link below:

Oral Perry Crim Memorial

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Military Monday: Pvt. Paul Eugene Crim

Pvt. Paul Eugene Crim - circa 1943

Pvt. Paul E. Crim was the son of Oral Perry and Grace Anna (Runyan) Crim. He was born 14 Jan 1924 and died 13 Nov 1992. He was my mother's first cousin and close friend. Paul enlisted in the United States Army on 13 Mar 1943 at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indiana.

A snippet from the local news...

National Road Traveler (Cambridge City, Indiana) April 6, 1944:

National Road Traveler article dated Apr. 6, 1944

"Clyde Crim visited with his brother Pvt. Paul Crim at College Park, Md. where Pvt. Crim has been taking a specialized training course at the University of Maryland. They were also at Washington, D.C."

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Wordless Wednesday: Cousins - The Summer of '42

Standing L to R: Harold Vanbuskirk (husband of cousin Pearl),
cousin Paul, Morris Newby (uncle of cousin Janet), cousin Vera ,
and cousin Thelma. Kneeling L to R: cousin Pearl,
cousin Janet (my mother),  and cousin Viola. The six cousins are 
grandchildren of Robert Noah and Mary Elizabeth (Darling) Runyan.

 Photo taken in 1942 at the home of my maternal grandparents, Lawrence and Fern (Newby) Runyan, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Wordless Wednesday: Cousin Clyde's Pony - Circa 1918

Clyde C. Crim 1910 - 1985

Son of Oral Perry and Grace Anna Runyan Crim

Spoiled or what? LOL!

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Memorial Day Weekend Tribute

~Remembering family who served~

Revolutionary War:

John MARTIN, SC - served under Brig. Gen. Francis Marion - aka "Swamp Fox" (Gen. Marion pictured at the right)
William WALLEN, TN - served at Kings Mountain and Indian Wars
David OWEN, PA - Capt. Humphrey's Co., 6th Pennsylvania Reg.
Jonas SUTTON, Sr., NJ - Private - Second Regiment, Monmouth; also Continental Army

War of 1812
Benjamin RUNYAN, Sr., OH - Capt Asa Morgan's Co., U.S. Dragoons and Capt James Neilson's Co., NJ mil.
James OWEN, OH - Capt. (Samuel) Spangler's Co., Fairfield Co., Ohio
Samuel GRUNDEN - Pvt. Captian Aston's Co. of Mounted Ohio Milita

Civil War
Forney J. DAVIS, KY - Union Sgt. - Co. B, of the 12th KY Infantry
James Alexander GRUNDEN, IN - 19th Indiana Reg. - Iron Brigade - out of 115 men he was one of ten who came home alive. (pictured here on the right)
Nathaniel L. R. MELVIN, KY - Sgt. Co. E, 37th Kentucky Infantry - Union
Michael B. RUNYAN - Pvt. Co. B - 139 Indiana Infantry
Silas Jefferson METCALF - Co. D - 37th Kentucky Infantry

       

World War I

<---Lawrence Everett RUNYAN, IN - Camp Custer, Michigan


World War II
Paul Eugene CRIM, Ross Dudley LIVESAY, Joseph Harvey LOGSDON (pictured bottom left), John Mitchell RABER, Robert Leroy WALLEN (pictured bottom right), Charles Homer WALLEN, Sr., James Hobart WALLEN, Thomas Miller WALLEN, Richard Stanton WALLEN, Richard Monroe WALLEN, Harold Melvin "Buddy" TOWNSEND.

Lastly I would like to recognize James Joseph RIZZARDI who served in both WWI and WWII. Even though he is considered an "illegitimate" ancestor, he is still a biological ancestor and some would not be here without him.

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