An Andrew Crawford was enumerated in the 1820 census of Spencer County, Indiana with a
wife
and two young children.
Male - age 26 to 45
Female - age 16 to 26
Male - to 10
Female - to 10
There were no other Crawfords indexed there in 1820. No Andrew Crawford was listed in
subsequent census years.
I believe this may be the same Andrew Crawford who was one of Abraham Lincoln's early
teachers.
I found this "on the web" at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/lincoln.html
It is a biography of Abraham Lincoln written by David Herbert Donald- published by Simon
&
Schuster.
The years after Sarah Bush Lincoln came to Indiana were happy ones for young Abraham.
Afterward, when he spoke of this time, it was as "a joyous, happy boyhood,"
which he described "with mirth and glee," and in his recollections "there
was nothing sad nor pinched, and nothing of want." His
parents enrolled him, along with the other four children in household, in the school that
Andrew Crawford had opened in a cabin about a mile from the Lincoln house. Though Sarah
Bush Lincoln was illiterate, she had a sense that education
was important, and Thomas wanted his son to learn how to read
and cipher.
"Abraham attended Crawford's school for one term, of perhaps three months.
Crawford, a justice of the peace and man of some importance in the area,
ran a subscription school, where parents paid their children's tuition in cash or in
commodities. Ungraded, it was a "blab" school, where students recited their
lessons aloud, and the schoolmaster listened through the din for errors.
He was long remembered because, according to one student, "he
tried to learn us manners" by having the pupils practice introducing each other, as
though they were strangers. After one term Crawford gave up
teaching, and the Lincoln children had no school for a year......."
Does anyone have any information on this Andrew Crawford ?
Suzanne Crawford