So many of us have a stone wall! Mine is a James Crawford 1756-1836 who died in DeCatur County, Illinois, where he was an early settler after having lived previously in Kentucky territory as a young adult (where his son William E. Crawford was born 1784) and then in St. Francois County Missouri. My James is known to have been a revolutionary war veteran. There is a veterans tombstone placed in Decatur County stating he lived from 1756-1836. There are no pension records. It is my understanding that you had to show financial need to obtain a rev war pension when they became available, and he was a landowner by then (of the pioneering sort) so either he did not have had an interest in the pension opportunity or did not qualify. I can find nothing about his wife, who probably long pre-deceased him, his parents, his birthplace, or his place of enlistment I have been able to rule out a couple of other James Crawfords living in similar times and places (one who was a Presbyterian minister who lived in Kentucky territory during some of the same years as my James, and another who was also a rev. war soldier, but buried in a different county in Illinois, and he did have a pension), but there were so many James Crawfords! My James could have been born on this continent, or not. I have spent quite a bit of time on this and it is my stone wall. Maybe someday something new will come to light. Best of luck to all. Nancy Crawford On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Karen Jennings <bjkj@swbell.net> wrote: > my stone wall is finding the parents of William H Crawford, b Dec 1845, > Mercer > Co., VA (WVA) and died 1913, Pleasant City, Guernsey, Ohio. He was in the > 5th > OVC for the Union Army from Feb 1865 to Oct 1865. Believe he is part of the > Zachariah Crawford and Jane Bowling family because they and their children > Charles A., John B,Thomas, Rueben, Sallie and Margaret Harriet were the > only > other Crawfords living in Mercer Co, VA in 1850-60. Believe he may be > illegitimate son of one of kids as Z and Jane seem too old. He is not the > Wm H > who was son of Chas and Chloe Bailey Crawford who was confederate soldier > and > died of Camp fever in Lewisburg in 1861. Also, know Thomas was father of > Zachariah, b 1779, but cannot find where that Thomas came from or who his > parents were. Thomas ws listed as father on Zachariah's death certificate > in > 1867. After he died we find his widow Jane and son John B and family and M > Hariett Crawford Thomas all in Meigs Co Ohio where my Wm H was when he > enlisted > in army in Feb 1865 and married Mary E Lovett in 1866. any help or > direction on > Wm's parents or Zachariah's parents roots would be appreciated!!! > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CRAWFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Correction: after all I wrote below, I noticed that every reference I made to Illinois (Decatur County, for example) should have been INDIANA! Oh well. Just another example of the fallibility of record-keepers. Everything else is correct, I think. :-) Nancy Crawford On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Nancy Crawford <crawford.nancyj@gmail.com>wrote: > So many of us have a stone wall! Mine is a James Crawford 1756-1836 who > died in DeCatur County, Illinois, where he was an early settler after having > lived previously in Kentucky territory as a young adult (where his son > William E. Crawford was born 1784) and then in St. Francois County > Missouri. My James is known to have been a revolutionary war veteran. > There is a veterans tombstone placed in Decatur County stating he lived from > 1756-1836. There are no pension records. It is my understanding that you > had to show financial need to obtain a rev war pension when they became > available, and he was a landowner by then (of the pioneering sort) so either > he did not have had an interest in the pension opportunity or did not > qualify. I can find nothing about his wife, who probably long pre-deceased > him, his parents, his birthplace, or his place of enlistment I have been > able to rule out a couple of other James Crawfords living in similar times > and places (one who was a Presbyterian minister who lived in Kentucky > territory during some of the same years as my James, and another who was > also a rev. war soldier, but buried in a different county in Illinois, and > he did have a pension), but there were so many James Crawfords! My James > could have been born on this continent, or not. I have spent quite a bit of > time on this and it is my stone wall. Maybe someday something new will come > to light. > Best of luck to all. > > Nancy Crawford > > > > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Karen Jennings <bjkj@swbell.net> wrote: > >> my stone wall is finding the parents of William H Crawford, b Dec 1845, >> Mercer >> Co., VA (WVA) and died 1913, Pleasant City, Guernsey, Ohio. He was in the >> 5th >> OVC for the Union Army from Feb 1865 to Oct 1865. Believe he is part of >> the >> Zachariah Crawford and Jane Bowling family because they and their children >> Charles A., John B,Thomas, Rueben, Sallie and Margaret Harriet were the >> only >> other Crawfords living in Mercer Co, VA in 1850-60. Believe he may be >> illegitimate son of one of kids as Z and Jane seem too old. He is not the >> Wm H >> who was son of Chas and Chloe Bailey Crawford who was confederate soldier >> and >> died of Camp fever in Lewisburg in 1861. Also, know Thomas was father of >> Zachariah, b 1779, but cannot find where that Thomas came from or who his >> parents were. Thomas ws listed as father on Zachariah's death certificate >> in >> 1867. After he died we find his widow Jane and son John B and family and M >> Hariett Crawford Thomas all in Meigs Co Ohio where my Wm H was when he >> enlisted >> in army in Feb 1865 and married Mary E Lovett in 1866. any help or >> direction on >> Wm's parents or Zachariah's parents roots would be appreciated!!! >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> CRAWFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > -- Nancy J. Crawford, Esq. 20804 W. 91st Ter Lenexa, KS 66220 Mobile: 785-218-2224 Email: crawford.nancyj@gmail.com