Fleming Byers Criswell and Hattie Catherine May

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Husband Fleming Byers Criswell ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 8 Nov 1880 - Pennsylvania 4
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           Died: 29 Nov 1976
         Buried:  - Crawford Memorial Cemetery, Emlenton, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: Silas Criswell (1852-1947) 1 2 5
         Mother: Lucinda Reath (1848-1930) 1 2 5

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       Marriage: 22 Mar 1905 - Knox, Beaver Twp, Clarion Co, PA

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Wife Hattie Catherine May

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           Born: 5 Jun 1881 - Mount Joy, Beaver Twp, Clarion Co, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 13 Apr 1976
         Buried:  - Crawford Memorial Cemetery, Emlenton, Venango Co, PA

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         Father: John May (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Florence Beisell (      -      )

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Children

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1 F Bessie M. Criswell ⁴

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           Born: 16 May 1907 4
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           Died: 
         Buried: 

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2 M Robert Fleming Criswell ⁴

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           Born: 8 Aug 1910 - Emlenton, Venango Co, PA 4
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           Died: 
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         Spouse: Rebecca Jane Coe (Abt 1914-      )
           Marr: 15 Jan 1932 - Parkers Landing, Armstrong Co, PA 6

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3 F Mary Margaret Criswell ⁴

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           Born: 3 Dec 1912 4
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           Died: 
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         Spouse: James Davis (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Fleming Byers Criswell

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Public schools of Richland Township, Venango County, Pennsylvania, provided his early formal education, and after he com­pleted his studies at Emlenton Business College he pur­chased a furniture and hardware business. He later be­came a student at the Pittsburgh School of Embalming, where he was graduated in 1904. In 1904 he, with his father, started Silas Criswell & Son, furniture and undertaking business. In 1909 he purchased his father's interest, and continued the furniture and undertaking business until 1931. In that year he disposed of the store and devoted his time en­tirely to the funeral home. In addition to all his other undertakings, he held, from 1915 to 1928, the agency for the Ford, Buick, Hudson and Essex automo­biles. Gradually his funeral home assumed a central po­sition in his interests, however, and in 1939 he laid the corner stone for a new and up-to-date funeral home, which was completed October 17, 1940, and which was one of the finest of its kind in that part of the country. He installed in it the latest equipment, including an embalming laboratory.
He belonged to the Butler County Funeral Directors' Association, the Western Pennsylvania Funeral Directors' Association and the National Funeral Directors' Asso­ciation. Politically he was a Republican. He belonged to the Presbyterian Church, and he and his family were active in church work.

SSDI: FLEMING CRISWELL 08 Nov 1880 Nov 1976 16373 (Emlenton, Venango, PA) (none specified) 202-30-2059 Pennsylvania

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General Notes: Wife - Hattie Catherine May

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SSDI: HATTIE CRISWELL 05 Jun 1881 Apr 1976 16373 (Emlenton, Venango, PA) (none specified) 206-36-3304 Pennsylvania

1 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1118.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 433.

3 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 82.

4 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 83.

5 George P. Donehoo, Pennsylvania - A History (NW) (New York, NY; Chicago, IL: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), Pg 62.

6 Venango Co, PA, Marriage License, #18739.