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Dr. Crane died on February 16, 1880, at the age of 60 ; Stephen was eight years old.

Some 1, 400 people mourned Dr. Crane at his funeral, more than double the size of his congregation.

After her husband's death, Mrs. Crane moved to Roseville, near Newark, leaving Stephen in the care of his brother Edmund, with whom the young boy lived with cousins in Sussex County.

He then lived with his brother William, a lawyer, in Port Jervis for several years, until he and his sister Helen moved to Asbury Park to be with their brother Townley and his wife, Fannie.

Townley was a professional journalist ; he headed the Long Branch department of both the New York Tribune and the Associated Press and also served as editor of the Asbury Park Shore Press.

Agnes took a position at Asbury Park's intermediate school and moved in with Helen to care for the young Stephen.

Within a couple of years, several more losses struck the Crane family.

First, Townley's wife died of Bright's disease in November 1883 after the deaths of the couple's two young children.

Agnes then became ill and died on June 10, 1884, of cerebrospinal meningitis at the age of 28.