This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Barndt,Barnd,Crawford,Averill,Ewing,Stewart Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VEC.2ACI/3719 Message Board Post: Would like to connect with anyone researching this family ads Louise is a member of G.A.R. post in Everett but her husband Loxley Barndt does not come up in our CW database. Her father John Crawford could have been her connection. please contact me at [email protected] we are working on a Civil War project of Snohomish Co. and would like to find out whom her G.A.R. connection was. Louise parents John R. & Sophia Crawford were located in Seneca & Hancock Co. OH 1850,60,70 census. Everett Daily Herald 10/1/1923 Funeral services for Mrs. Louise Ellen Barndt, second cousin of the late President Warren G. Harding, were held this Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock form the mortuary of Cahallacombe & Fickel. The impressive service at the chapel was in charge of the Order of Eastern Star. The Rev. O.H. King read the service at Evergreen cemetery. Mrs. Barndt, who died Thursday at Aberdeen, WA, resided at 3011 Gedney street. She was born in Seneca County, OH 5/19/1848 and was married to Loxley TY. Barndt 7/24/1864, the ceremony took place at Findlay, OH. The Everett woman was a descendant on her fathers side of one of that sturdy band who came to America in the Mayflower. She was taken ill while on a visit to the home of her daughter, Mrs. Zetta B. Averill at Aberdeen. President Harding died while she was ill and she expressed profound regret that she was unable to attend a memorial service, having attended similar services for the three martyred presidents, Lincoln, Garfiel! d and McKinley. The Everett woman was in Buffalo at the time President McKinley was shot. Mrs. Barndt was a granddaughter of Colonel Crawford prominent in the Indian wars. She came to (could not read) ago having been preceded to; the West a few months before by her husband. She is survived by four of seven children, John J. of Aberdeen, S.D.; Benjamin B. of Seattle, Mrs. Myrtle Stewart and Mrs. Zetta B. Averill of Aberdeen, WA. There are four grandchildren, Mrs. Barndt is also survived by two sisters and two brothers in Ohio, Mrs. Laura Conmrine(?), Mrs. Irena Ewing, Ellis S. Crawford and William S. Crawford. Mr. Barndt died in Everett in 1902. Mrs. Barndt was a member of the Christian church, the Order of the Eastern Star, the Ladies of the G.A.R., the Elderbloom club And a life member in the W.C.T.U. All members of the immediate family were in Everett for the services on Saturday.