(Ed's Note: A snapshot of the family in 1900 as they are leaving Brown County for places elsewhere.)

Crummy Family in 1900

 From R to L:  Mary (O'Callahan) Crummy, Margaret (Crummy) Rash, Mary Ellen (Rash) Kestel and Esther Kestel.  This photo was taken around the turn of the century, a classic four generation photo.

There is a 20 year gap in the family profile because of the loss of the 1890 census.  I was able to locate all of the living family members of the first two generations of the Crummy immigrant family.

 Bernard dies during the previous decade; best guess is after 1892, when Margaret Connor (Sister Ceslaus) enters the convent.  Mary Crummy is living with daughter Sarah and son-in-law Thomas Casey at 530 W. 59^th Street in Chicago .  They are probably parishioners of St. Anne’s Catholic Church.  Grandchildren at that residence are Kate and Frank Connor.  Mary will survive until September, 1902; her death certificate and obituary place her final burial in Gibson City .  Her age is detailed as 88, which would date her birth year as 1814.  Since we have no data for 1890, an address for Thomas Casey in 1891 from the Chicago Directory at the above address is the best information; unfortunately the Directories do not detail unemployed people.  One would assume Mary came to live with her daughter after Bernard’s passing.

 Catherine and Michael Williams still reside in Baton Rouge , Louisiana .  Michael is employed as a tinner.  Their children, Katie Lee, Thomas, Rosa and Eugene all reside with them.  They own their home, which is free of mortgage.

 A short time after Daniel’s death in a well digging accident in Gibson City , Elizabeth his wife and children move back to Mount Sterling .  She remarries Theodore Forsythe in 1885 and the family is detailed in 1900 as living in Holton City of Jackson County, Kansas .  Unfortunately, she is widowed again.  Living with her are Joseph, her son with Theodore (b. 1887), Edward (Thomas E. from 1880 census) and Nellie.  Edward is a teamster and Nellie is a dressmaker.  Elizabeth is working as a washwoman.  Daniel’s daughter Margaret is living in Mount Sterling with her husband, Jacob Kunkler and their son.

 Margaret and David Rash are still living on the farm 4 miles northeast of Mount Sterling on Dutch Ridge.  Only their son Frank still resides on the farm.

 Mary Fox had died in 1880.  Her husband Peter and children had lived in Rushville in 1880.  Peter remarries Ella Purcell in 1881.  By the 1900 census, Peter has died and Ella is living with her children by Peter.  All of Peter and Mary’s children have moved on in life.

Anna and John Flynn still reside in Clayton Township of Adams County, just west of Mount Sterling .  Their youngest daughter Katie lives with them.  John is a draftsman.

Bridget Connor and her family reside in Mount Sterling proper.  Michael, her husband died in 1884.  He was a blacksmith.  Bridget runs a Notion Store.  Her three sons, Richard, John and Bernard, are living with her.

 Bernard Jr and Elizabeth are on the family farm north of Mount Sterling .  Bernard had married Elizabeth Koch in 1884. Their children are Helen, Walter, Albert, Francis, George and Federich.

 Though I was unable to locate Lizzie in the 1880 census, in 1900, she is living in the Hyde Park Township of Cook County with her husband, Joseph Dondlinger.  They married around 1894 and reside at 662 East 63^rd Street in a multifamily unit, just a mile or so from her sister Sarah and mother, Mary.  Joseph is a butcher and grocer.

Ellen and Michael Cox still farm in Gibson City of Ford County.  Their family now boasts seven children:  Mary, Margaret, Elizabeth, Sarah, James, Thomas and Joseph.