Crispin MENNELL
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BackGround: London Temple, London, England.
Crispin was born 2 April 1786 in Kirby Moorside, Yorkshire, England and married 9 January 1809 in Huggate, Yorkshire, England, Elizabeth WELBORN, the daughter of William WELLBORN and Ann SIMPSON. She was born 15 May 1791 in Huggate, Yorkshire, England. Crispin died 22 May 1857 in Grafton, Lorain, Ohio.
Crispin MENNELL
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The first English families coming to Grafton in 1825, were Mr. Crispen Mennell, Mr. Jesse Welborne, and John Langdale. Mr Mennell remained a citizen until his death, in 1857, aged seventy-one. Mr. Welborne died in 1853, aged fifty-six. Mr. Langdale. was a resident of Elyria at the time of his death, which occurred in 1870, aged seventy-nine.
Crispin Mennell was born in Norton, England, in the year 1786. At the age of thirteen he commenced working on a farm and continued in that occupation uninterruptedly until his marriage, in 1809. He married Elizabeth, daughter of William Wellborn. By this union were born to them one son and one daughter, the latter of whom died in 1876; the son is still living.
Mr Mennell emigrated to America in 1817, and first settled in what is now the city of Albany, where he resided three years. He then removed to Pittsfield, Massachusetts and lived there six years. In 1826 he moved to Ohio and settled in Grafton township, Lorain Co., where he continued to reside until his death, May 22, 1857. He was a good, practical farmer and a man of sound common sense. He had no education except what he obtained the few years he was able to attend the national schools of the old country. He held several offices of trust in the township of Grafton, all of which he filled with fidelity and to the satisfaction of the people whom he served. He was among the early settlers of the township and his loss was generally considered a public calamity.
Fully ninety years have passed since the Mennell family was first established in the then wilderness of Lorain County. During all that time the principal seat and home has been in Grafton Township, and one of the grandsons of the pioneer still occupies a farm included in the original possessions of the family in this county.
The founder of the name in the county was Crispin Mennell who married Elizabeth Welburn. Their only son was Duke Mennell, who was born in Yorkshire, England, May 8, 1810. When Cirspin Mennell emigrated to America in 1817 his son Duke remained with his maternal grandfather until 1823, and then came to America with his two uncles, Jesse and William Welburn, joining his parents in Massachusetts.
Crispin Mennell on first coming to America lived in Albany, New York, and was there during the great conflagration which almost destroyed that city. He then moved to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and while living there his son Duke joined him in 1823.
It was in the year 1826 that the Mennell family pioneered westward and located in Lorain County. After securing a tract of land in the wilderness of Grafton Township, Crispin Mennell began the improvements which have made that one of the oldest cultivated farms in the townships and he subsequently built a substantial house about three-quarters of a mile from where his grandson Jay D. now lives. Crispin Mennell died May 22, 1857, on J. D. Mennell's present farm.
Duke Mennell, who was thirteen years of age when he came to America, acquired a fair common school education and was a vigorous youth and able to assist materially in the development of the first farm owned by the family in Grafton Township.
On June 23, 1835, he was married in Lorain County to Rachel Curtis, a daughter of Theodore Curtis. Their married companionship was broken by the death of the wife on September 29, 1858. In the meantime eight children had been born to them. On October 10, 1861, Duke Mennell married for his second wife Mrs Mary A. (Hardy) Johnson. By this union there were four children, three sons and one daughter, namely; Perry D., Jay D., Allen E. and Elizabeth M. The last named is now the wife of John Lafferty of Sharon, Pennsylvania.
Duke Mennell was an active democrat until the Civil war and then became equally ardent as a republican. He was honored by such offices as township trustee and was a man valuable to his community in many ways. His death occurred September 17, 1889, while his second wife passed away November 2, 1907. By his first marriage the eight children were born: Elizabeth, deceased; Andrew Jackson, deceased; Meadore; Mary; Anna, deceased; Charles, deceased; Flora; and Elmer.
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CHILDREN of Crispin MENNELL and Elizabeth WELBORN:
1. MARMADUKE (DUKE) b: 8 May 1810; Huggate, Yorkshire, England.
chr: 13 May 1810; Fimber, Yorkshire, England.
md: 23 Jun 1835; , Lorain, Ohio
Rachel CURTIS
md: 10 Oct 1861; , Lorain, Ohio.
Mrs. Mary A. (HARDY) JOHNSON.
d: 17 Sep 1889; Grafton, Lorain, Ohio.
+ 2. ANN b: 12 Oct 1812; Huggate, Yorkshire, England.
chr: 20 Oct 1812; Fimber, Yorkshire, England.
md: 8 Nov 1917; , Lorain, Ohio.
Benjamin Franklin TAYLOR
d: 4 Feb 1875; Springville, Utah, Utah.
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