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Lucy Anne (Howe) Crawford (1793 - 1869)

Lucy Anne Crawford formerly Howe
Born in Guildhall, Essex, Vermont, USAmap
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Wife of — married 2 Nov 1817 in New Hampshire, USAmap
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Died at age 75 in Stoneham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesmap
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Biography

Born in Guildhall, Vermont 5 Sep 1793. She married on 9 Nov 1817 Ethan Allen Crawford. They had 10 children. She died 17 Feb 1870.[1]

She wrote The History of the White Mountains first published in 1846 and reprinted a number of times.[2]

Aged 76 years. Daughter of Samuel and Mercy (Rosebrook) Howe. Lucy Anne Howe and Ethan Allen I married 9 Nov, 1817 in Guildhall, Essex, VT. They are cousins sharing Eleazer Rosebrook and Hannah Haynes as their grandparents. (Ethan's mother and Lucy's mother were sisters: Hannah Haynes Rosebrook and Mercy Rosebrook.) Grandfather Eleazer owned the farm near where the current Crawford Cemetery is located and in 1817 he was ill with oral cancer. Ethan was summoned to come help run the farm for Grandfather and Lucy was summoned to come help Grandmother Hannah nurse Eleazer. Eleazer died in September 1817 and Ethan inherited the farm. He and Lucy married 9 Nov. 1817 and Grandmother Hannah lived with them until her death. Ethan Allen Crawford I and Lucy Anne Howe had 10 children, Harvey Howe, 1818-1870; Alden, 1820-1820; Lucy Laurilla, 1821-1906; Ellen Wilie 1823-1908; Eluthera Porter, 1826-1911; Ethan Allen II, 1828-1899; Stephen Meserve, 1830-1900; Persis Julia, 1832-1905; Placentia Whidden, 1834-1882; and William Haines 1835-1928.

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  • Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 03 December 2018), memorial page for Lucy Anne Howe Crawford (5 Sep 1793–17 Feb 1869), Find A Grave Memorial no. 60894186, citing Crawford Cemetery, Carroll, Coos County, New Hampshire, USA ; Maintained by Jessica (contributor 46802577) .
  1. Daniel Wait Howe, Howe Genealogies, Genealogies of Abraham of Roxbury, James of Ipswich, Abraham of Marlborough and Edward of Lynn, Massachusetts", Vol. 2, (Boston: NEHGS, 1929), pp.313.
  2. History of the White Mountains, by Lucy Anne Howe Crawford, 1846




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