William Crawford and Jemima Burford
Husband William Crawford 1
Born: - Westmoreland Co, PA Christened: Died: - Perry Twp, Armstrong Co, PA Buried: - Perry Twp, Armstrong Co, PAMarriage:
Wife Jemima Burford 2
AKA: Jemima Berford 3 Born: - Armstrong Co, PA Christened: Died: Buried: - Perry Twp, Armstrong Co, PA
Father: Reuben Burford ( - ) 3 Mother:
Children
1 F Sarah Ann Crawford 5
AKA: Sarah A. Crafford 4 Born: 1841 4 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Thomas Wally (1838-Aft 1918) 2 4 6 Marr: 16 Dec 1860 2
2 F Elizabeth Crawford 7 8
Born: - Perry Twp, Armstrong Co, PA Christened: Died: Aft 1914 Buried:Spouse: William Campbell Storey (1840-1902) 7 8 9
General Notes: Husband - William Crawford
He was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, where he spent his early life and received his school-ing. When a young man he settled in Arm-strong County, buying a farm at Cresswell, in Perry township, where he passed the rest of his life, dying there at the advanced age of eighty-six years. He became a large land owner, his holdings including considerable oil lands, and was widely known, having served twenty years as a justice of the peace. The area was all wild when he settled there, bears and other wild animals being numerous, and he cleared the property on which he contin-ued to make his home until his death. In politics he was a Republican, in religion a member of the M. E. Church.
General Notes: Wife - Jemima Burford
She died at the age of eighty-two years and was buried in the same cemetery as her husband.
Notes: Marriage
They were the parents of twelve children, five of whom were still living in 1914; Mrs. Storey was the fifth of this family in the order of birth.
1 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 425, 908.
2 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 908.
3 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 425.
4 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 161.
5 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 431, 908.
6 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 60.
7 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 424.
8 Mariah Florence Burns, History of the Descendents of John Cambell & Ann Christy (Butler, PA: Miller Printing Company, 1923), Pg 89.
9
Editor, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 994.
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