David Crawford and Rebecca Hosack

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Husband David Crawford ¹

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           Born: Apr 1798 1
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           Died: Aug 1873 1
         Buried:  - New Castle, Lawrence Co, PA

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Wife Rebecca Hosack ¹

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           Born: 21 Oct 1801 - Adams Co, PA 1
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           Died: Oct 1876 1
         Buried:  - New Castle, Lawrence Co, PA

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         Father: Col. Thomas Hosack (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Margaret Johnston (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 F Myrtilla A. Crawford ⁴

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           Born: Apr 1825 4
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           Died: Dec 1857 4
         Buried:  - New Castle, Lawrence Co, PA

         Spouse: Joseph Douthett (1819-1907) 4

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2 M LaFayette Crawford ¹

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3 F Evelyn Crawford ¹

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4 M Walter Crawford ¹

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5 F Arabella S. Crawford ¹

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6 F Florence R. Crawford ¹

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General Notes: Husband - David Crawford

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He belonged to the Scottish clan of Crawfords, the branch of the family in America having been founded by five brothers who came from England during the Protector's rule. They settled near Jamestown, Virginia, and they and their posterity were Episcopalians in religion.

His great-uncle, Colonel William Crawford, was a surveyor and well acquainted with Washington, who taught him his profession when he was eighteen years old, the boy assisting the General at that time to survey the Lord Fairfax farm in Virginia. Colonel Crawford was later complimented by Washington for his great bravery, and he was a gallant warrior until his tragic end, being burned at the stake by the Indians.

David Crawford served as a drummer boy in the war of 1812. In 1815 he went to Painesville, Ohio, remaining there until he reached his majority, when he became an apprentice to the printer's trade at Mercer, Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Leaving that county in 1829 he settled in what is now Lawrence County, buying a farm at New Castle, and in fact acquiring a large quantity of land at the present site of that city, dealing extensively in real estate up to the time of his retirement. He took an influential part in the formation of Lawrence County; donated the ground for the courthouse and jail; edited the first newspaper there, the New Castle Register; and continued to publish a paper for a number of years, eventually selling out his interests in that line to E. S. Durbin. He died at the age of seventy-five years, and is buried with his wife at New Castle. Politically he was a Whig, and in religious association he departed from the church of his ancestors, becoming a Methodist.

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 748.

2 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 983, 1019.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 983.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 747.