CRAWFORD GENEALOGY
Compiled by Glenn Gohr
I learned about my wife's Crawford family connection through reading a history of the HENRY family that my wife's Great-Aunt Grace (Henry) Mary compiled. It mentions the connection with Rev. George Henry Clarke, Sr. and his wife, Eliza Jane Crawford. Crawford is such a common name that it has been hard to find any information on Eliza Jane's family.
In March of 1999 I had the thrill of hearing from a 2nd cousin whom we'd never heard of. He has supplied us with many, many missing links in the Crawford and Clarke family history and has taken the Clarke lineage back into England and beyond. THANK YOU! to Karl Ahlgren, our new-found cousin at Richland Hills, Texas, for all your assistance on the Clarke family!!!!--Glenn Gohr.
One little side item to mention is that in the SARTAIN Family of Glenn Gohr there is a Crawford Sartain living in Mississippi, who is a brother of Russell Sartain. Possibly there is a Crawford connection in that family as well.
Here is my wife's CRAWFORD lineage as far as can be proven:
- Eliza Jane CRAWFORD, b. 5 March 1844 Conshohocken, Montgomery Co., PA, d. 11 Feb. 1920 Ellsworth, KS; md. 12 Dec. 1866 Ft. Wayne, IN to Rev. George Henry CLARKE, Sr. (Baptist preacher in the Civil War), b. 7 Nov. 1844 London, England, d. 30 June 1917 Oakland, KS
- Mary Rosetta CLARKE, b. 17 Feb. 1873 Walnut Grove, IN, d. 1 June 1960 Pasadena, CA; md. 17 Oct. 1892 Fairview, KS to Robert Archie HENRY, Sr., b. 10 July 1872 Sabetha, KS, d. 26 July 1947 San Fernando Valley, CA
- Robert Archie HENRY, Jr., b. 26 Aug. 1902 Cycles, OK, d. 10 June 1944 Los Angeles, CA; md. 22 Aug. 1928 to Bonnie Ruth CALLICO, b. 5 Aug. 1905 Drake's Creek, Madison Co., AR, d. 1 Dec. 1968 San Bernardino, CA (both buried at Mountain View Cemetery, San Bernardino, CA) *These are my wife's grandparents.
There are several Message Boards on Rootsweb which are set up for the CRAWFORD surname. These boards are for posting information in the following categories: BIBLE, BIOGRAPHY, BIRTH, CEMETERY, CENSUS, DEATH, DEED, IMMIGRATION, LOOKUP, MARRIAGE, MILITARY, OBITUARY, PENSION, QUERIES, and WILLS. The search perameters and drop down screen on the main page allow you to do a key word search or to view all postings according to one of the above categories. Click on the icon below to access the Crawford Message Boards.
Post a query (or information from any one of the above categories) on any CRAWFORD name or related family. Please give dates, and locations they lived. Try to give as much information as possible.
An online genealogy forum for posting queries has also been set up specifically for the CRAWFORD family. It can be found at the following address:
***Note***During the Fall of 1998, GenForum combined with Family Tree Maker, which means that all queries and information posted to that site becomes the property of Family Tree Maker. This is still a good site to look up information and get contact names for the CRAWFORD lines you are searching, but be advised that if you now post a new query or a response to something on that site, chances are that sometime in the future Family Tree Maker will include that information on a CD-ROM which they will sell for profit to anyone who is interested. I do not like the idea of someone else using my hard researched information and ideas and selling them for a profit without my knowledge. This same practice is evident on all of the Family Tree Maker pages which are found on the internet, if you will read the disclaimer notices on those pages. I recommend the Family Tree Maker pages as good look up pages, but I don't recommend posting information there. Similar things can be said for Ancestry.com and MyFamily.com which are connected to each other and seek to make a profit from genealogical materials on the internet.
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Last updated June 1, 2003.
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