Charles Otto Crumley was born 7 Oct. 1879 in Kokomo, Howard, Indiana to Samuel J. Crumley and Sarah Elizabeth Brunk. He was the fourth son in the family. The third son died at birth and the oldest, Edgar, died at age 16. William, the second son, was five years older than Charles and his only sister Bertha was three years younger. At some point after 1886 the family moved to Iola, Kansas. Charles was a soldier in the U.S. army and followed the profession of carpentry as his father had done. He also loved baseball and his son Harold told my mother Virginia that Charles was associated in some way with some type of professional baseball team in Denver, Colorado. Harold remembered that the family would move to Denver for spring practice. Ross indicated in his personal history that the family also moved to Denver for Edythe's health as she had contracted tuberculosis.
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