Olive, my paternal grandmother, was born to Frederick Otis Crane (1853 - 1957) and Jane "Jennie" Binley (1862 - 1903). She married Clarence Howard Mansur on Sep. 19, 1910 in Santa Ana, CA. They started their family in Huntington Beach, CA and, per census records, moved to Hemet, CA by 1920. There, they lived on a ranch in the Fruitvale area on the west side of town (now a housing development).
Around 1950, Grandma Mansur told me that her family moved from Iowa to Nebraska in a covered wagon. She also said one of her grandmothers was an Indian. She did not say which grandmother, but I presume it to be Jennie's mother, Charity Parker.
Earlier, when we stayed over at the ranch, she made sure we visited the outhouse (supplied with corn husks and Sears catalogs), brushed our teeth (she put hers in a glass), said our prayers and turned out the oil lamp (electricity came to the farm in 1948).
She and Grandpa Mansur had four children, Keith, Gertrude, Carlton and Robert, all now deceased. After Grandpa Mansur died in 1952, she moved into town to live in an apartment above the garage at her younger brother, Milo's home. She died there on Sep. 8, 1973.
(Bio by Darrell Mansur.)
Around 1950, Grandma Mansur told me that her family moved from Iowa to Nebraska in a covered wagon. She also said one of her grandmothers was an Indian. She did not say which grandmother, but I presume it to be Jennie's mother, Charity Parker.
Earlier, when we stayed over at the ranch, she made sure we visited the outhouse (supplied with corn husks and Sears catalogs), brushed our teeth (she put hers in a glass), said our prayers and turned out the oil lamp (electricity came to the farm in 1948).
She and Grandpa Mansur had four children, Keith, Gertrude, Carlton and Robert, all now deceased. After Grandpa Mansur died in 1952, she moved into town to live in an apartment above the garage at her younger brother, Milo's home. She died there on Sep. 8, 1973.
(Bio by Darrell Mansur.)
Olive, my paternal grandmother, was born to Frederick Otis Crane (1853 - 1957) and Jane "Jennie" Binley (1862 - 1903). She married Clarence Howard Mansur on Sep. 19, 1910 in Santa Ana, CA. They started their family in Huntington Beach, CA and, per census records, moved to Hemet, CA by 1920. There, they lived on a ranch in the Fruitvale area on the west side of town (now a housing development).
Around 1950, Grandma Mansur told me that her family moved from Iowa to Nebraska in a covered wagon. She also said one of her grandmothers was an Indian. She did not say which grandmother, but I presume it to be Jennie's mother, Charity Parker.
Earlier, when we stayed over at the ranch, she made sure we visited the outhouse (supplied with corn husks and Sears catalogs), brushed our teeth (she put hers in a glass), said our prayers and turned out the oil lamp (electricity came to the farm in 1948).
She and Grandpa Mansur had four children, Keith, Gertrude, Carlton and Robert, all now deceased. After Grandpa Mansur died in 1952, she moved into town to live in an apartment above the garage at her younger brother, Milo's home. She died there on Sep. 8, 1973.
(Bio by Darrell Mansur.)
Around 1950, Grandma Mansur told me that her family moved from Iowa to Nebraska in a covered wagon. She also said one of her grandmothers was an Indian. She did not say which grandmother, but I presume it to be Jennie's mother, Charity Parker.
Earlier, when we stayed over at the ranch, she made sure we visited the outhouse (supplied with corn husks and Sears catalogs), brushed our teeth (she put hers in a glass), said our prayers and turned out the oil lamp (electricity came to the farm in 1948).
She and Grandpa Mansur had four children, Keith, Gertrude, Carlton and Robert, all now deceased. After Grandpa Mansur died in 1952, she moved into town to live in an apartment above the garage at her younger brother, Milo's home. She died there on Sep. 8, 1973.
(Bio by Darrell Mansur.)
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