1894
Jesse Wallen Cra1n was born May 5, 1868, in Madison County, N. C., and was the son of Lewis Crain, a farmer of Flag Pond, near Erwin, Tenn. His mother was Rachel, daughter of Bayless Moore, a farmer of the same place.
After graduation from the Yale Law School he was Tax Attorney of Unicoi County, Tennessee, two years, and during the Spanish American War was an Orderly in the Fourth Tennessee Volunteers, and was for some time on duty in Cuba. In 1900 he was appointed to a position in the United States Census Bureau at Washington, D. C., and continued there until his death. This occurred December 4, 1902, and was due to pneumonia following typhoid fever. He was 34 years of age. He was buried at Flag Pond.
Mr. Crain married in April, 1900, Jennie Lee Phillips of Flag Pond, daughter of F. P. and Mary E. Phillips. She survived him with an infant daughter. He was a member of the Baptist Church.
Source: Obituary Record Of Graduates of Yale University, Deceased during the Academical Year ending in June, 1905, by Yale University; Pg. 1376
