Mary Helen Peck Crane

Jonathan Townley Crane, D. D. (died 1880, Port Jervis, New York), of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Newark Conference.

[4] They had fourteen children: Mary Helen, George Peck, Jonathan Townley, William Howe, Agnes Elizabeth, Edmund Bryan, Wilber Fiske, Elizabeth Townley, Luther Peck, Myra Blanche, Blanche, Jesse T., Jesse T., and Stephen.

Crane delivered addresses on several occasions before the members of the New Jersey Legislature, when temperance bills were pending, and she greatly aided the men who were fighting to secure good laws.

[4] As the pioneer of press work by women at the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting, she did valuable work, including reports for the New-York Tribune and the New York Associated Press, during the last ten years of the religious and temperance gatherings at the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting.

Her funeral was held in Market Street Church of that city, and her remains were laid to rest beside those of her husband in Evergreen Cemetery, Hillside, New Jersey [7] One daughter and six sons survived her.