Published 1967, by Ruth Black Aten. 361 pages
Sarah Catharine McCoy, third child of James McCoy and eighth child of Catharine McCoy, was born August 15, 1863, near the west bank of Bear Creek on the old McCoy farm east of Breckenridge in Hancock County, Illinois, during a rainy season in the dark days of the Civil War….
“Sister Crank” was a female minister who practiced in southwestern Missouri, Illinois, and northwest Indiana. This book is a “fictionalized account” of the life of Sadie Crank that includes a bibliography of newspaper accounts, magazines and newsletters, legal papers, correspondence, photographs and drawings, and other records that serve as the basis for this biography.
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