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Marking History - A small part of over 200 years of our nation’s history was celebrated Saturday as Priscilla McIsaac, her son Chuck and his son, 1-year-old Cole (fourth-, fifth- and sixth-generation descendants), the Abigail Fillmore Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and members of the Crandall Family Association gathered at the Collins Center cemetery to dedicate a new grave marker for Revolutionary War soldier Luke Crandall, who died in 1835. An early pioneer who settled in the Town of Collins in the beginning of the 18th century, Crandall was born in 1755 in Rhode Island and moved to Rensselaer County in New York State, where he met and married his wife, Rachel Bump, who is buried beside him in the Collins Center cemetery. Enlisting in the Third Regiment of the Continental Line in 1776, Crandall eventually served as bodyguard for the future first president of the United States of America, General George Washington. The new stone marker, placed at the base of the original slate fieldstone slab marking Crandall’s grave, was “dedicated to patriots Luke Crandall and others like him who stepped forward, enduring terrible hardships, and fought for the independence of this country.” (Photo by Karen Blake.)
Gowanda PennySaver News - August 29, 2004 CorrectionDue to reporter error, the caption under the Crandall dedication photo contained two inaccuracies. First, Crandall settled in the Town of Collins in the beginning of the 19th century and passed away in 1832, not in 1835. We apologize for the errors.
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