John Crawford (1775 - 1847)

Born 27 Mar 1775 in Augusta County, Virginia colony

Ancestors

Husband of Margaret (Buchanan) Crawford — married 6 Aug 1798 in Davidson County, Tennessee, United States

Husband of Elizabeth (Norris) Crawford — married about 10 Oct 1816 in Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died 17 Sep 1847 at age 72 in Cane Creek, Fayetteville, Lincoln County, Tennessee, USA

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Biography

John was born in 1775. He is the son of William Crawford and Rachel Sawyers. He passed away in 1847. ^[1]

John Crawford ...

John Crawford moved from Virginia to Lincoln County, Tennessee about 1815. He was the father of 18 children, five of whom married Buchanans. Subject was educated at Cane Hill and Cane Hill College, he was a Democrat and a Cumberland Presbyterian. He served in Company B, 34th Arkansas Infantry. (1911 Arkansas Confederate Census)^[2]

Husband of ^[3]

• Margaret Crawford (Buchanan) m. August 9, 1798
• Elizabeth Crawford (Norris) m. 1816

Father of

1. Col. Hezekiah Hay Crawford; 1799
2. James Crawford; 1803
3. Naomi Buchanan (Crawford); 1805
4. Joanna Williams (Crawford); 1806
5. Ellen Buchanan (Crawford); 1808
6. Andrew Alexander Crawford; 1812
7. Rachel Sawyers Crawford;
8. William D. Crawford;
9. Nancy Halbert (Crawford);
10. John Crawford;
11. Emily Euphemia Crawford;
12. Martha Crawford;
13. Mary Ann Clayton (Crawford)

By Elizabeth:

1. John Crawford b. 1818
2. Elizabeth Brownlie (Crawford); 1837?

Place of Burial: Crawford Cemetery, Lincoln County, Tennessee, United States

Biography in Book, Descendants of Alexander & Mary McPheeters Crawford

Page 175^[4]

1135 John Crawford, son of William and Rachel Sawyers Crawford, born in Augusta County, Va. 27 March 1775; died 17 September 1847 and buried in Buchanan Cemetery, Fayetteville, Tenn. He married (1) in Davidson County, Tenn, 6 Aug 1798 (probably bond), Margaret (Peggy) Buchanan, daughter of Andrew and Joanna Hays Buchanan, born 3 December 1777 and died 14 March 1816. John married (2) 10 October 1816, Elizabeth Norris, born 9 Jun 1788 and died 1856.

Note: the marriage of John Crawford and Margaret Buchanan is filed in Davidson county, Tenn Bk 1, p. 36

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John Crawford and his first wife Margaret Buchanan had following children:

11351 - Hays (Hezekiah) Crawford, born 5 January or June 1799; died 14 September 1838, Washington County, Ark.; married 1821 in Tennessee to Susan Harris and had eight children (see later)

11352 - William D. Crawford, born 22 March 1801 in Tennessee; died 1882; buried Prairie Grove Cemetery, Ark. He married Elizabeth Sawyers (or Savage), born 1798 in Virginia; died 1884, Washington County, Ark. We have no record of their children, if any.

11353 James Crawford, born 25 January 1803; died 3 June 1880, Washington County, Ark. and married Louisa Buchanan. (See later)

11354 Naomi Crawford, born 19 April 1805; died 17 June 1888; married 13 September 1827 (marriage license), newspaper account gives date 6 October 1827, Isaac Buchanan. (See later)

11355 Rachel Sawyers Crawford, born 13 December 1806; died 10 August 1879; married 1827 her cousin James A. Crawford, son of Alexander Crawford and Rachel Lesley. They had ten children. See #11314 under William Crawford line for their children.

11356 Eleanor (Ellen) Crawford, born 2 October 1808; died 25 August 1898; married John Buchanan and moved to Arkansas (see laters0

11357 Nancy Crawford, born 16 November 1810; married Pleasant Halbert and lived in Tennessee in 1850 (See later)

11358 Andrew Alexander Crawford, born 11 November 1812; died in the Civil War; married (1) Minerva Buchanan; married (2) Rachel Tinnon (See later)

11359 Joanna Crawford, born 12 October 1814, Lincoln County, Tenn.; died 19 October 1828. She is buried in Crawford Cemetery, Fayetteville, Tenn.

By second wife Elizabeth Norris, John Crawford had:

11350 Mary (Polly) Crawford, born 19 July 1817; married John Clayton and living in Texas in 1850. (Ref. to Chancery Petition.)

1135a John Crawford, born 21 November 1818; died 1856, Lincoln County, Tenn. and buried in Crawford Cemetery, Fayetteville, Tenn. He is recorded on 1850 census for Lincoln County, age 30 yr. with wife Sarah, age 23, daughter Adella, age 2 and son John, age 1. In Lincoln County marriages there is record of the marriage of a John Crawford to Sarah Blake, 6 August 1846. The chancery court petition shows John as married in January 1850. We have no further record on this line. (See additional Lincoln County records at end of Wm. Crawford line #1137.)

1135b Elizabeth Crawford, born 3 June 1820; died 4 March 1890; married John M. Buchanan, born 1817; died 1888; buried in Buchanan-McCollum Cemetery, Fayetteville, Tenn. (See Later)

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1135c - Margaret Crawford, born 8 February 1822; married Dr. T. W. Stevenson, 11 April 1844. She died 4 February 1853 and buried in Crawford Cemetery in Fayetteville, Tenn. The chancery petition shows her husband as living in Arkansas in 1850.

1135d - Ezekial Norris Crawford, born 22 December 1823 or 24. According to chancery petition from children of John Crawford 26 January 1850, he had married and planed to move to Texas. He may be the E. N. Crawford who married Mary J. McElroy, 17 January 1850 in Lincoln County. He does not appear on the 1850 census for Lincoln county. According to Nanetta Parker’s research he is listed on the 1880 census for Lincoln County with a wife Elizabeth and four children. Lincoln county marriages show E. N. Crawford marrying Elizabeth Smith, 17 April 1867, marriage performed by rev. Tigert. We have no record of his children. (See additions)

1135e Thomas Middleton Crawford, born 15 October 1825; died 11 June 1845 and buried in Crawford Cemetery in Fayetteville, Tenn.

1135f Emily Euphemia Crawford, born 19 December 1828; died 16 April 1889, in Bell County, Tex. and married 19 February 1850, Allen Parker, born 16 February 1825 in middle Tennessee and died 20 July 1903, Killeen, Tex. (see later)

1135g Jane Columbus Crawford, born 10 December 1829; died 1 August 1840

1135h Martha Lucinda Crawford, born 17 January 1833, died 1912, Coleman, Tex.; married 23 August 1851, Elijah Parker (see Later).

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Nelson Crawford, Dec 5, 2011
2. ↑ http://www.luginbuel.com/genealogy/person/i47369
3. ↑ Geni profile: John Crawford
4. ↑ Crawford, Amanda, Arbogast Forbes and Lucetta Crawford Sammis. Descendants of Alexander & Mary McPheeters Crawford: Pioneer Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia. Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 1980.

• Section: Part IX - Crawford Family

• Source InformationAncestry.com. Early Western Augusta Pioneers [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Cleek, George Washington. Early Western Augusta Pioneers. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2001. [1]

• "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVL1-7JNH : 13 December 2015), John Crawford, 1847; Burial, , Lincoln, Tennessee, United States of America, Crawford Cemetery; citing record ID 105760848, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105760848

• Joe Scott Creager, Brøderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 1, Ed. 1, (Release date: November 29, 1995), "CD-ROM," Tree #1193, Date of Import: May 9, 1999., (1995), "Electronic," Date of Import: May 16, 1999.

• "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZ7P-TF6 : 3 November 2017), John Crawford and Margaret Buchanan, 06 Aug 1798; citing Davidson, Tennessee, United States, Marriage, p. 36, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 200,294.

Acknowledgments

• Nelson Crawford, firsthand knowledge. Click the Changes tab for the details of edits by Nelson and others.
• Thank you to EvaJ Church for creating Crawford-5647 on 22 Sep 13. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by EvaJ and others.