Dear Chuck......
I am most happy to hear from you ! And thank you for the information on the Andrew
Crawford I'm "looking into".
You know, the fact that he was a Jurist and a Justice of the Peace is perfectly in keeping
with *our* Andrew Crawford. My husband's
ancestor was in later years a Justice of the Peace and also a Jurist in McMinn Co.,
Tennessee!! I have copied the court records and find that
he served for many years.
I quickly checked the 1830 census for Warrick Co., IN. but was not able to find an Andrew
Crawford listed. If he was *our* Andrew
Crawford he was living in McMinn Co., TN. in the 1830 census. The move from Indiana to
Tennessee seems unlikely, I know. But our
Andrew Crawford entered land belonging to the Hiwassee Purchase in 1825. I'm sure
that is why he settled there. That is the first record I
have of him after [what I believe was] his marriage to Jane Weirs there in Botetourt Co.
in 1814. The two young children on the 1820 census
in Spencer Co. could very easily have been their first two children, Solomon K. and
Juliana W. Crawford. The ages are about right. Solomon
K. and Juliana W. were both born in Virginia but a later daughter gave her place of birth
as Indiana [in 2 census records]. She was born ca
1820-1821. Thus my search in Indiana. The age you say that Warren quoted as 35 for
Andrew in 1820 is consistent with our Andrew's age
in later census records !
I have checked into your Josiah Crawford's line [briefly] and I'm inclined to
believe he was not related to Andrew Crawford of Spencer Co.
but I could be wrong. Josiah didn't appear in the census of Spencer Co. until 1830.
I would love to have the pages from the various books you cite and will be most happy to
send whatever money is needed to obtain copies
as I don't have access to any of the books.
If I could obtain a deed or land transaction of any sort there in Spencer Co. which named
Andrew Crawford's wife as *Jane* I would most
definitely try and plan a trip there sometime in the near future to see what else I could
ferret out about them !
How thrilling if this turns out to be the right Andrew ! I have researched this line off
and on for over 20 years but only recently found the
daughter who was born in Indiana. [I do have proof of who his children were from land
transactions in McMinn Co.] I document everything!
Warm Regards,
Suzanne
Chuck Huppert wrote:
Dear Suzanne,
Your enquiry posted on rootsweb has really gotten me going. My historical interests are
family genealogy, Lincoln and Indiana canals. You've hit
on two. I suspect from your enquiry that you are doing genealogical research. In this
regard I can't be of much help. But, my Lincoln materials
offer some information. Your quote from David Donald's Lincoln is correct. I found
it at pp. 28-29 in his book. There is more material in Louis
A. Warren's Lincoln's Youth, Francis Van Natter's Lincoln's Boyhood and
Bess Ehrmann's The Missing Chapter in the Life of Abraham Lincoln. If you
don't have access to these books, I would be happy to copy the pages and send them to
you. There's little in Ehrmann's book, but it is not indexed,
so I might find more. Ehrmann's articles "Lincoln and His Neighbors" does
not mention Andrew, but has a lot on the other Crawford family (see
next).
Genealogy wise, I have in my genealogy records Josiah Crawford, Jr. and his wife
Elizabeth Anderson. They were neighbors of Lincoln's in Spencer
County, Indiana. Abraham worked for him and borrowed a book from him which he ruined and
had to work two days "pulling fodder." Lincoln thought
this unreasonable and thereafter called Josiah "Blue Nose." Anyway,
Josiah's sister, Sarah, married William Barker who was my G-G-G-G-Uncle. His
sister, Lydia, was my G-G-G Grandmother. There was another sister, Nancy, who married a
Grigsby. They had a son, Aaron, who married Abraham's
sister Sarah. So, Aaron is my first cousin four times removed.
Van Natter claims that the same Andrew J. Crawford [note the J.], that was Justice of the
Peace in Carter Township, Spencer County, and schoolmaster
for Lincoln, was the jurist in a case in the Common Pleas Court in Warrick County,
Indiana, in September 1825 (Complete Record pp. 128-29) where a
U.S. Congressman, Ratliff Boon, was convicted of assault and battery. This may explain
why Andrew does not appear in other Spencer County
censuses. I wonder if he shows up in Warrick in the 1830 census. Warren reports that
Andrew became a J. P. on May 8, 1818, in Carter Township
(where my grandfather was J.P.) Spencer County. The last marriage recorded that he
performed in Carter Township was March 14, 1821. So, he
probably only was in office for one four year term. This may also explain why he taught
school for only a year. There is some question what that
year was, but certainly no later than the winter of 1820.
There is a marriage record for an Andrew L. Crawford to Elizabeth Hargrave in Warren
County on November 7, 1821. So I don't know. That doesn't
help the legitimacy of the children who show up on the 1820 census unless the marriage
was a second one. Those early census records can lead one in
may different directions. Warren says that Andrew was 35 years old in 1820 based upon
"returns" in the genealogy library at the Indiana State
Library. It makes one wonder if he had a wife 26 or less years old or whether the
Warrick marriage record is his.
Let me know what your questions are and I'll see if I have anything further.
Chuck
Chuck HuppertIndianapoliscbh(a)iquest.net