John Thomas Craner

Born: 6 Sep 1881, Tooele, Tooele, Utah, USA
Marriage: Martha Lovenia Jensen on 24 Dec 1904 in Provo, Utah, Utah, USA
Died: 7 Aug 1926, Ogden, Weber, Utah, USA
Buried: 9 Aug 1926, Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, USA

bullet Ancestral File Number: 27SG-XR.

bullet General Notes:

JOHN THOMAS CRANER (1881 - 1926)

John Thomas "Tom" Craner was born 16 September 1881 in Tooele, Utah. Tom was the son of John Jenkins and Emily Goodwin Craner. It was in Colton, Utah that Tom met Martha Lovenia Jensen. Lovenia was born on 2 Feb 1880 in Fairview, Utah, a daughter of Peter Christen Christensen (Jensen) and Martha Ann Howell Jensen. Lovenia was reared and educated in Fairview, Utah. She found employment at the Craner and Marble Hotel and Store in Colton, Utah, where she and Tom met and fell in love. They were married on 24 Dec 1904 in Provo, Utah, and lived in Colton, Utah.

In 1910 John Jenkins Craner negotiated the purchase of the Model Farm, a few miles west of Corinne, Utah. The family realized that the mining and lumber business which supported them in Colton was coming to an end. John and Emily and their children, John Thomas and Lovenia Craner, and Hyrum Lyman and Sadie Craner Marble, along with the grandchildren, moved to West Corinne. A new stone home was built across the street from the original farm house (which is still there in 2004). An upstairs was built in the home for John and Emily, and Sadie and Lyman and their family moved into the downstairs. Tom and Lovenia and their family remained in the original farm house.

Tom and Lovenia were the parents of six children:
Name:Birth Date:Death Date:
John Christian Craner 11 Feb. 190624 Jul 1978
Ernest Leon Craner 23 Mar 1908
Allie Craner 6 Apr. 191224 Apr 1976
Roy Lewis Craner 17 Nov 191322 Mar 1967
Willis Dean Craner 10 Dec 1915
Joseph Edward Craner 30 Jun 191710 Mar 1931
George Thomas Craner 14 Jan 191927 Dec 1954

Tom died 7 August 1926 in Ogden, Utah and Lovenia died 10 January 1961 in Brigham City, Utah.

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bullet LDS Information:

Baptism: 4 Dec 1914

Endowment: 21 May 1924, Logan Utah Temple

Sealed to Parents: BIC

He was sealed to his spouse on 21 May 1924 at Logan Utah Temple. (Martha Lovenia Jensen was born on 2 Feb 1880 in Fairview, Sanpete, Utah, USA, died on 10 Jan 1961 in Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, USA and was buried on 13 Jan 1961 in Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah, USA.)

bullet Marriage Notes:

Reference:

1 Jeri, Dede, & JaNeal Fogg, A Collection of Histories Of George Benjamin and Elizabeth West Craner And Their Descendents
(Distributed at the 2006 Craner Reunion in Toole, Utah), page 28.

John Thomas Craner

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