George W. Crawford

b. 1820

Born 1820, North Carolina

Children include Josephine

George W. Crawford was born in North Carolina about 1820. He married Sarah Falls in Union County, Georgia on 13 December 1840, and the clerk wrote his name as George Craford. She was about seventeen and he about twenty.

He farmed in the 1027th District of the Georgia Militia in Fannin County, which was carved out of Union and Gilmer in 1854. The census of 1860 holds him there at forty, with Sarah thirty seven and six children: William seventeen, George twelve, Margarett nine, Samuel seven, Sarah three and Ellendor a few months old. Every one of the children was born in Georgia.

He is on no page after that one. Josephine was born in 1863, and Sarah married Berry Carter in February 1870, described on the licence as Sally A. Crawford. So he died somewhere in those seven years, at about forty five, and no known record says how. The war took Fannin County men in both directions and no service record has been matched to him.

His son Samuel's death certificate, filed in Tennessee, names the parents as Geo. Crawford and Sallie Falls. That is the marriage of 1840 told from the other end by one of its children.

Children

Josephine Crawford 1863-1919

Sources

United States Census, 1860, 1027th District Georgia Militia, Fannin County, Georgia, pages 116 and 123. United States Census, 1880, Board Town, enumeration district 104, and Tickanetley, enumeration district 108, Gilmer County, Georgia. Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950, and Georgia, Marriages, 1808-1967, Fannin, Gilmer and Union Counties. All read through FamilySearch.

United States Census, 1880, Morganton, Fannin County, Georgia, ED 59, sheet 669B, household 12583031, household of Berry Carter. United States Census, 1880, Morganton, Fannin County, Georgia, ED 59, sheet 672D, household of Wiley Tipton. United States Census, 1910, Sugar Creek, Fannin County, Georgia, household of John B. Tipton, indexed as Lipton. United States Social Security Numerical Identification File, Minnie Jane Tipton.

the United States census of 1860 for the 1027th District of Fannin County, Georgia; the 1880 census of Morganton in the same county; and Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950 for the 1870 remarriage. All read through FamilySearch

Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950, Union County, George Craford and Sarah Falls, 13 December 1840, FamilySearch 1:1:KXVW-Q8L; also Georgia, Marriages, 1808-1967, 1:1:FWQR-75T.

Tennessee, Deaths, 1914-1966, Sam H. Crawford, parents Geo. Crawford and Sallie Falls, FamilySearch 1:1:N91P-J2S.

United States Census, 1860, 1027th District Georgia Militia, Fannin County, Georgia, page 116. Georgia, County Marriages, 1785-1950, Union County, George Craford and Sarah Falls, 13 December 1840 (FamilySearch 1:1:KXVW-Q8L). Tennessee, Deaths, 1914-1966, Sam H. Crawford (1:1:N91P-J2S). United States Census, 1880, Morganton, Fannin County. Georgia, County Marriages, Fannin County, Berry Carter and Sally A. Crawford, 17 February 1870.

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