Mary Ann Blackman ⁸

   General Notes:

Mary A Blackman

   Marriage Information:

Mary married Daniel Cram, son of Abel Cram and Lydia Lewis, on 12 Nov 1838 in Athens County, Ohio ⁸. (Daniel Cram was born on 1 Aug 1815 in Hillsboro County, New Hampshire, died on 12 Feb 1905 in Vinton County, Ohio and was buried in Elk Fork Cemetery, Mcarthur, Vinton County, Ohio.)

   Marriage Notes:

They had ten children including 2 that died in infancy.
Daniel and Mary are buried together in Elk Fork Cemetery, McArthur.
A Family member of the Crams show that they married in September 10, 1838, and another source shows November 18, 1837.
As a young man, Daniel Cram came from New Hampshire to Elk Township in 1837. The following year he married Mary A. Blackman, daughter of Moses Blackman. They all came from New England in the same company. The Crams established their home on the east end of the Ridge where it spreads out into a considerable plateau. Section 11 (where the Cram farm is located) is uniformly high averaging almost 1000 feet. At the east side of the north part of sec. 11 and in sec. 2 adjoining, the ridge ends abruptly in forested bluffs which run down to the Raccoon valley which is very narrow here.
Daniel and Mary Cram reared a large family, now all deceased. Their son James M. served in the Civil war with an Iowa regiment. Their youngest son, Stephen, remained on the farm with his father who lived to an advanced age. Stephen's only son, Charles, now owns and operates the farm. He gives considerable attention to dairy cows. He and his son Ted, recently graduated from McArthur high school, are the only decendants of the pioneers still living on the ridge. David Andrews, a descendant of David Andrews, Sr. and the Bakers who were pioneers, lives off the ridge to the northwest where his father Frank Andrews owned and lived directly east of the Foreman school house. (From the book "A Brief History Of Vinton County" by Louse Ogan Biggs)