George William Crawford
Born: July 17, 1822 Northern Ireland
Died: April 24,1886 Elgin, Chautauqua County, Kansas
Father: perhaps William Crawford, born about 1790, Ireland
Mother: unknown, Ireland
1st Spouse:
Catherine Grimes
b. Nov 20, 1831 Gambier Knox, Ohio d. by 1863, probably Ohio
Married 11/20/1853
Children:
(all born Gambier Knox, Ohio)
David S. b. 1855 d. 1911 Kansas
John M. b. 1857 d. 1919 Colorado
Sarah b. 1859 d. 1928 Arizona
Mary R. b. 1859 d. 1935 Oklahoma
2nd Spouse:
Rebecca Ann Roberts
b. 7/13/1839 Owen County, KY d. 6/26/1929 Pagosa Springs, Colo
Married about 1864 in Springfield, IL
Children:
Fannie Ann b. 4/5/1865 Springfield, IL d. 1951 Susanville, CA
Sadie b. 1872 Springfield, IL d. 1925 Colorado
James W. b. 1877 Kansas d. 1966 Colorado
Lin (male) b. 1880 Kansas d. 1962 Colorado
George William Crawford was born on July 17, 1822 in Ireland, probably Northern Ireland.
There is a record of a father, William Crawford, and two young sons: George (age 11) and
Oliver (age 3) coming from the port of Londonderry on the Brig "Ann". They arrived in the
port of Philadelphia on August 19, 1833. Although we do not know for sure this is our George
Crawford, it is possible. There is also a subsequent US Census record for a George
Crawford living in London, Madison, Ohio in 1850 with the occupation of "stage driver". We
know that George was in Ohio about this time because he married his first wife Catherine
Grimes in Ohio on November 20,1853.
George and Catherine had 4 children, all born in Gambier, Knox County, Ohio.
Catherine died on October 22, 1863 in Gambier.
George and his children left Ohio and traveled to Illinois where he met and married Rebecca
Ann Roberts in Springfield about 1864. Rebecca had been married previously to a William H.
Pilgrim in Fayette, Illinois, but the marriage was dissolved in less than a year.
Rebecca and William Pilgrim had no children.
In addition to the 4 children George had with his first wife Catherine, he and Rebecca had 4
more children. The first two, daughters Fannie Anne and Sadie, were born in Springfield. By
1877 the family had moved to Hendricks, Chautauqua County, Kansas. The last two children,
sons James W. and Lin, were born in Kansas. George died there about 1886, when he was
about 65 years of age.
George's daughter Fannie married another Crawford (though unrelated) in 1887. She and
her husband Charles Crawford moved west to Chromo, Colorado; a bustling logging and
mining town high up in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado near the New Mexico border.
George's widow Rebecca and children Sadie, James, Lin and half-brother John also moved
to the Chromo, Colorado, area by 1890.
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