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S: Crane Family History

FC: Our most treasured family heirlooms are family memories. | Crane Family

1: Cline and Zuela Crane

2: Zula often accompanied her sister Cannie when she went on her outings with Bennie Crane. When Cline got out of the army in January 1919, his brother Bennie asked Cline to come along to a church singing and meet Zula. It was love at first sight and the two were married a year later. | Zula Blanche Adams | Earnest Cline Crane | Married February 1, 1920

3: Zuela and Anna 1929

4: Corporal Company E 114 #1605278 Tennessee | Earnest Cline Crane

5: April 6, 1917 Congress declared war on Germany. Eleven days later, Earnest Cline Crane enlisted in the United States Army in Pascagoula, Mississippi at the age of 23. After a year of training, he left the United States on August 29, 1918. He arrived in France September 12, becoming one of over 4 million American soldiers, sailors and marines that fought in World War 1. In September 1918, more than one million United States troops fought in a huge battle in the Muse-Argonne, a region of northeastern France. More Americans fought in this battle than in any other single battle in United States history. Two months later the war was over as the Central Powers surrendered on November 11, 1918. Ernest Cline arrived back in the United States December 31, 1918 and came back home to Conehatta, Mississippi.

6: Married October 21, 1944 | Melvin and Blanche Dubard

10: Married October 8, 1944 | James and Ruth Crane

12: Married May 31, 1949 | Truett and Anna Bufkin

14: Married May 1, 1949 | James and Inez Blackburn

16: Married December 24, 1960 | Calvin and Jeanne Crane

18: Married June 25, 1955 | George and Laura Strother

20: Married July 1960 | William and Ellie Crane

22: Married October 12, 1968 | Jim and Margie Rainwater

24: Married March 5, 1961 | Larry and Pat Cochran

26: It’s hard to imagine anyone who loved fishing more than Cline Crane. Almost every day, weather permitting, he would set off to the pond to wet his line. A favorite spot for fishing was the spring fed creek that ran across his neighbor’s pasture land. On this particular outing James, Earl and George went along on the adventure. Earl had just arrived home from the Navy from his tour in Japan and was eager to bring home a string of fish for supper. They had set out a line of hooks up and down the creek on Mr. Stamper’s land and they were going to check them, hoping to strike it rich. | Fishing with Cline Crane

27: When they arrived at the bend in the creek they checked the drop line that they had tied off on one of the tree limbs. Since they were fishing for catfish, they put a weight on the line to make sure it would stay in the deep part of the water. The water in this spot was cool, clear and was about 20 feet deep. Cline could see movement on the line so he thought for sure he had snagged a big one. Instantly, he sprang into action, stripped down to his birthday suit and climbed up on a log that went out over the fishing hole. As he got closer he saw the line had become tangled in the brush and he thought the hook was hung on a log. Everyone knew that Cline Crane hated to lose a hook. He would do anything to salvage that sacred hook and this day proved to be no exception. While holding on to the log he began to run his toe down the line hoping to free the hook from the log. When the water was about waist deep, his toe came to an abrupt halt. Backing his toe away from the hook Grandpa began to lift the line from the water. He shouted for James to get his 22 rifle. As the hook approached the surface you could see a large dark shadow. When the shadow emerged from the water the mouth of a loggerhead turtle was clamped tightly onto the hook. Cline straddled the line to get a firm hold. Holding the turtle between his legs he shouted for James to shoot the turtle. Sizing up the situation, James was hesitant to take the shot. Shouting again, Cline told James to take aim and shoot the !@#?! turtle so he could free the line. Reluctantly, James pulled the trigger striking the turtle in the middle of the shell. Cline drug the turtle up onto the bank of the creek and happily unhooked the line. James, Earl and George were of no help in this struggle to the shore since they were laughing so hard. Even though they did not catch any fish, it was a successful outing. Cline had his hook, Mr. Stamper had a freezer full of turtle meat, and James, Earl and George had one whopper of a fish tale that they would never forget.

28: Zuela, Cline, Debbie Strother

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