>>This is a newspaper article that appeared in a Benton Co >>newspaper in Missouri dated May 25, 1888 for Charles CRAWFORD. >> >>I am looking for other descendants in Maryland and Ohio for this >>family. >> >>The article as follows: >> >> CHARLES CRAWFORD >>THE 100-YEAR-OLD MAN OF ALEXANDER TOWNSHIP >> >>Enterprise, May 25, 1888 > Charles Crawford, who lives near Fairfield, was born >in Baltimore on February 20, 1788, and is now in his >101st year. His father was Irish and his mother English. >They were both Episcopalians, in which church Charles >was reared. > His mother's father died in Baltimore at the age of 114 >and his mother died in the same city at the age of 104. His >father was drowned in 1812, when Charles was 24 years >of age. Charles has been married three times. He had >only one child by his first wife and it died in infancy; five >children by the second wife--only one living, a daughter >aged 56. His eldest son that reached manhood would >be 76 if living. Three children by his third wife, two of whom >are living, boys aged 30 and 32. His third wife died last >February, aged 73. His first wife, if alive would be 98 and >second wife, 104. > Mr. Crawford was in the Baltimore artillery at the Battle of >North Point, in 1814, where the British were beaten and the >city saved from capture. In the fight, he was wounded by a >musket ball in the leg. > He lived in Meigs county, Ohio, until 1859, when he removed >to Arkansas, but being a Union man was compelled to leave >there during the war. He then came to Fairfield, where he >has lived over 25 years. > He has voted for all the Democratic candidates for >president. He remembers having seen Washington, Madison, >Jefferson, and Charles Carroll. He is temperate in his >habits but not a prohibitionist and thinks most of the whisky of >the present day is miserable stuff. His nerves are steady >and his appetite good. > Recently, on an invitation from the editor of the >Enterprise, he rode a spirited horse from his home to >Warsaw, a distance of ten miles, ate a hearty dinner, >sat for his picture, chatted with his many friends, got a >prescription for a slight stiffness in his leg and as evening >approached, mounted his horse and rode off on a canter, as >easily as a man of 60. > His friends believe him to be the most active, and in >every way, mentally and physically, the best-preserved man >in the United States. His hearing is good and, at the >summer picnics, he likes to amuse the young folks by >dancing, and the inspiring notes of the fiddle >rekindles his love of the "light fantastic toe." > His neighbors, and friends who knew him in Ohio, >do not doubt his age. John Horton, an intelligent farmer >of Pettis County, who is about 70, knew Uncle Charley >in Ohio. He says that when he was quite a young >man, Charley was certainly 50 years or more. Surveyor >Whit Cherrington, with whose grandfather Uncle Charley >was acquainted in Ohio, has often heard Charley talk about >local events which assured him he is right about his age. > The old man has lived a laborious life, eaten simple food, >prefers cold bread made of coarse flour, does not care for >sweets, has always chewed tobacco but cannot smoke. >Has never been sick at all until within the last few years. >He bids fare to live many years. > At the late Democratic county mass convention, >Uncle Charlie occupied a front seat and voted on every >question, staying until adjournment. It is supposed that >he is a Francis man, because he is popular with the >"boys" and believes in giving them a chance. ________________________________________________________ NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html