The Crabb Newsletter Volume 23 Number 4 Winter 2013-2014 Subscription Renewal Time The Edward Ralph Crabb To renew your 2014 subscription to The Crabb Mystery Newsletter, please return the enclosed subscription For years I have tried to connect the Edward renewal form along with your $12 check. A Ralph Crabb family of Virginia presented starting on subscription to the Crabb Newsletter runs from page 1110 of the Crabb book to the Ralph Crabb of January first to the end of the year; thus, all Maryland this line initiated on page 160. Both family renewals are due in January. The $12 subscription lines have common numerous given names: Ralph, remains the same as it did in 1991. Edward, Priscilla, Thomas, Henry, Jeremiah, and John. The first issue of the Crabb Newsletter was Ralph of Maryland had an older brother Thomas and a published in March 1991; thus, 2014 is the 24th year younger brother Edward. Edward Ralph Crabb arrived for the newsletter. The newsletter is also mailed to 25 in the Colonies with Lord Fairfax and two brothers genealogical libraries and archives across the country. according to the family tradition (See note on Fairfax Thanks for your continued interest in the below). Ralph lived and died in Prince George's Co., newsletter and the Crabb-and-allied families. Some Md.; his children moved westward into Frederick and subscribers have been with me since the beginning. I Montgomery Counties, Md. Edward Ralph Crabb welcome Crabb family information and stories for the moved westward into Berkeley Co., Va., now part of newsletter. If you are aware of other families West Virginia. interested in the Crabb-and-allied families, please Recently, I was contacted by George H. Stevens let them know about the newsletter. There are of Fort Washington, Md., and Barbara DeMarco of many Crabb descendants in America who don't know University Place, Wa. Both are trying to connect the about the Crabb Newsletter or the book The Crabb Edward Ralph Crabb and Ralph Crabb lines through Family. extensive research and DNA. Future issues of the A few newsletter subscribers forgot to pay in newsletter will print more details of their research and 2013. I hope you are still interested in our Crabb DNA findings. family and the Crabb Newsletter for 2014, and I won't If you are interested in being part of this need to remove your name from the mailing list. Crabb research and or the DNA project, please The sale of the two-volume, 1,637-page Crabb contact any of the following to learn more: book was discontinued since I sold all 400 copies. I Google- "Crabb DNA Project" wondered when I printed so many in 1997 if I would [email protected] Les Sutton of Houston, Tx., ever sell all of them. I hope you are still enjoying is administrator of a Crabb DNA project. At least 14 reading about our interesting Crabb ancestors. Crabbs have already submitted their DNA. [email protected] Barb researching old Christmas Cards and Letters records and working on DNA. Thanks for the Christmas cards and letters. I ghstevens3 @aol .com Also George H. Stevens. always enjoy hearing from you and learning more about It looks like we are only beginning to your Crabb family. Keeping in contact at least once a discover more about our Crabb family year is important. I send Christmas letters to family relationships. If a reader has ideas or information that and friends that I haven't seen in over 50 years would add to solving the Edward Ralph Crabb mystery, knowing that it is impossible to visit everyone in person please contact the editor, Barb, George, and Les. More as spread out as we are from the Atlantic to the Pacific. to come in future newsletters. I use the winter issue of the Crabb Newsletter 6th Lord Thomas Fairfax of Cameron to connect to Crabb descendants and wish all the best Lord Fairfax was born at Leeds Castle in Kent, England, for the New Year. in 1693 and died in Virginia in 1781. He sailed to his Northern Neck 5,282,000 acre property in 1735 to inspect and protect his The Crabb Newsletter is published quarterly by lands. Northern Neck is across the Potomac from Maryland. Richard D. Prali [p770], 14104 Piedras Rd. NE., Westmoreland County is part of North Neck where the Virginia Albuquerque, NM. 87123 2323. phone- 505-299- Crabbs lived. See chapter XV of the Crabb book starting on 8386. E-mail- [email protected]. The editor is a page 1060 for details about the Virginia Crabb line. descendant of Ralph Crabb [p!60] d. 1734, & Priscilla George Washington was a mentor, neighbor, employee, and Sprigg of Prince George's Co., Md. friend of Fairfax. More research needs to be done on Lord Fairfax $12 annual subscription. ISSN 1061-1088. and his possible tie to the Virginia Crabbs. Someone more knowledgeable about publishing and the U32 The Holiday Project internet. New blood is always needed. Let the editor For most of December and January, I was know what you think and what part you are willing to involved with a house remodeling project. Starting a take. There must be someone who would like to try few days before Christmas and ending on the 20th of their hand at editing the newsletter. January (still cleaning and putting things away), I have To borrow from John F. Kennedy's inaugural been in a mess. Dust and dirt settled on everything address in 1989: "And so, my fellow Crabb while repairing wall board cracks, re-stuccoing two kiva Descendants: ask not what your editor can do for style fireplaces, painting walls, sawing, fitting, and you—ask what you can do for your Crabb Family staining wood trim for placement around ceiling beams, and resealing red brick floors. I had help moving the Association." piano and heavy furniture out of the way and then back in place plus all the tasks noted. The cleaning up was Centenarian Celebrates Birthday the worst part. Finally, the house looks like someone Anna Louise Farris of Lubbock, Tx., celebrated lives in it. her 100th birthday 6-8-2013. Seventy attended the In 1972 Rhoda and our two young children birthday cake party. built the house with our own hands on the east edge of Anna was born to William and Henrietta Albuquerque a couple of blocks from the Sandia Crabb at the family farm in the Nunnlee Community Mountain foothills. After forty two years, things north of Bonham,Tx.. After graduation from Bonham needed repairing, upgrading, and renewing. If I must High School, Anna worked at an insurance office and say so myself, the house looks the best that it has for with the Selective Service before WWII. She married many years. I wondered about under taking the heavy Clyde C. Farris Sr. on 12-22-1940 at the family farm work project at my age, but decided I wasn't going to near Bonham. They moved from Wichita Falls to get any younger. I'm a hands on person and enjoyed Lubbock in 1958. the building in 1972 and the recent repairing. According to daughter Elaine Dutton, Anna was If you wonder why the winter issue of the excited to move to Lubbock because of Texas Tech and Crabb Newsletter is a little late, now you know why. the opportunity for her children to earn college degrees. What is winter like in Albuquerque? During our In fact, her children and grandchildren did receive working lunch breaks, we ate at a table on the patio college degrees. Clyde died in 1984. Ron and Donna since the inside dinning table was always covered up Nyght of Shawnee, Ks., sent the notice from the with something. The patio is on the southern sunny Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. If a reader can identify side of the house. Sorry to say, not every December or this Crabb family, please contact the editor. January noon in Albuquerque is that warm. Staff Sgt. Arthur C. Crabb Crabb Family Association? Joyce A. Crabb [p399] of Superior, Mt, sent a After 23 years of publishing the Crabb newspaper obituary about her brother-in-law Staff Sgt. Newsletter, perhaps it is time to think about organizing Arthur C. Crabb [p399] who was killed in an explosion all of the Crabb descendants into a Crabb Family and crash of a B-29 bomber over Saudi Arabia on May Association. Some of the goals of such a nonprofit 11, 1948. The plane exploded shortly after takeoff organization would be to discover and connect with from the Saudi air field en route to its home base at more descendants, promote a web site, sponsor national Salina,Ks. reunions every four years or so, continue the newsletter, Sgt. Crabb entered the Army on November 20, initiate more research in the States and even across the 1942, and served on volunteer rescue missions in the waters to Europe. A newspaper ballot would elect a South Pacific. After receiving his discharge on president, trustees, treasurer, historian, web master, and December 26, 1945, he reenlisted, planning to make a editor. career in the Army. He was married to Elinor Jones of All it would take to get started would be a few Denver, Co., February 1945. Crabb descendants getting involved and setting up a Survivors included his wife; parents, Mr. & plan. The editor would be happy to help, advertise, and Mrs. Clarence Crabb of Sandpoint, Id; three sisters, promote the association through the newsletter. Mrs. Ethel Gill of Spokane, Wa., Mrs. Mary Ann Thousands of American families have family Branson of Coeur d'Alene, Id., and Mrs.