When Orin Chittenden Crabtree was born on 21 February 1862, in Contra Costa, California, United States, his father, John Fletcher Crabtree, was 37 and his mother, Elizabeth Davis, was 33. He married Mary Elizabeth Cyrus on 25 January 1888. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Judicial Township 3, Lake, California, United States in 1920 and Lake, California, United States in 1920. He died in 1931, in Upper Lake, Lake, California, United States, at the age of 69, and was buried in Hartley Cemetery, Lakeport, Lake, California, United States.
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English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from a lost place in Sowerbyshire, Yorkshire named Crabtree, named from Middle English crabbetre ‘crab-apple tree’. In some instances possibly a topographic name for someone who lived by a crab-apple tree.
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