| Table Eight, Crane County Populated by the Young and Single |
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Crane County had 2,213 residents, 769 heads of households, living in 743 places
of residence. Of the 2,213 residents, 325 were unmarried but of marriageable age - 19 years-old and plus for
men, 18 years old and plus for women - and not in school. These figures do not include single Negroes
working for the state highway. The one Negro man in the town of Crane was married but without his family.
Since there were only 743 places of residence, if would appear that nearly every other house had an
unmarried, but marriageable, person living there. Of course that is not true since most
unmarried lived in hotels, rooming houses, bunk houses, or congregated in small apartments.
However, many did live with family members, and a good number rented rooms from other than their
own family. A good number of the divorced and widowed had children. A breakdown by age categories are shown in the following chart: |
| MALE, SINGLE | ||||||
| 19-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50-59 | 60-69 | 70+ | Total |
| 141 | 41 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 200 | |
| MALE, WIDOWED | ||||||
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 30 |
| MALE, DIVORCED | ||||||
| 6 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 25 | |
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| 152 | 55 | 25 | 17 | 5 | 1 | 255 Total |
| FEMALE, SINGLE | ||||||
| 18-29 | 30-39 | 40-49 | 50-59 | 60-69 | 70+ | Total |
| 28 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 32 |
| FEMALE, WIDOWED | ||||||
| 6 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 33 |
| FEMALE, DIVORCED | ||||||
| 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 5 |
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| 38 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 70 Total |
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Two-hundred-fifty-five single men in a county with only seventy single women
gave Crane the character of a frontier town or boom town. Such a town would normally have
saloons and brothels, but the 1930 Census would not reveal them, because prohibition remained
in force. Any prostitute in Crane would claim another vocation or say they were unemployed,
and no doubt some legitimate merchants "bootlegged" alcohol. Obviously, young Crane County was populated by many single men, mostly in their twenties. The married couples were nearly evenly divided between those in their twenties and those in their thirties, and the two categories formed the majority of the married population also. |
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