"Bertram K. Crispell, 52, a prominent dairy farmer of Slaterville Springs died Monday afternoon, Jan. 12, 1959, in Tompkins County Hospital after a heart attack at his home on Sunday morning.
Son of the late James and Sarah Hammond Crispell, he had lived at the Crispell homestead his entire life."

"B. K. Crispell Dead at 52," Ithaca Journal, January 13, 1959, 5.