Marty and Karla Grant

!NOTES:
(1) This person is my distant cousin (1C 6x Removed) via the Crawford family.


!REFERENCE:
http://www.martygrant.com/
http://www.martygrant.com/genealogy/crawford/


!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 142-147
...
- James Crawford, the father of Chapman J. Crawford, married Miss Rachel Nevils, and by her bad two sons, Chapman J. and William H., and three or four daughters ; one married Peter P. Johnson, of Fayetteville, N. C. ; one married D. C. Milling, of Darlington, and one married D. J. McDonald, long a merchant at Marion, and Representative from Marion in the State Legislature in 1850, and finally failing in his business, removed to Arkansas. James Crawford, the second, was a very prosperous man, left a large estate, and died in the prime of life. His widow, Rachel, married Dr. Cherry, and by him had several daughters; one of them married, first. Dr. Richard Scarborough, of Marion; he soon died childless, and his widow then married Major O. P. Wheeler, and after some years he died, and she remained his widow for several years, when she died. Another daughter of Mrs. Cherry became the wife of the late C. Graham, of Marion ; she died before he did, and left an only child, a son, Herbert C. Graham, now residing in Marion. Another daughter, Sarah Jane, became the wife of Dr. J. Hamilton Wheeler, who died and left her a widow with two children, Ed. B. Wheeler and Tiston C. Wheeler, now residing in Marion ; their mother, Sarah Jane, still lives. Dr. Cherry, a most excellent and upright man, died away back in the '40's ; he was a well-to-do man. The sons of James Crawford, the second, were Chapman J. and William H. Crawford. Chapman was an ambitious, energetic and enterprising man; married, first, a Miss Jolly, an only child of Joseph Jolly, a very wealthy man in West Marion ; she died, leaving an only child; he married again, and the second wife died, and he married a third time. I think he had two or three children in all. Dr. Ross married the daughter by the Jolly wife; Junius H. Law, of Darlington, married a daughter by one of his other wives. By his energy and push and by his marriages, he made property and left a large estate at his death, which occurred in November, 1852, when only in the prime of life; he lived fast (not in the sense of a dissipated life) and went through life in a hurry. His younger brother, Wm. H. Crawford, grew up and married a Miss Durant, sister of Rev. H. H. Durant, of the South Carolina Conference of the Southern Methodist Church; he married, loth February, 1840, the same day of Queen Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert. Captain Crawford started out in life with fine prospects; he went into a large mercantile business at Marion, in partnership with his brother-in-law, D. J. McDonald, who had had some training for such business—a man of push and enterprise, but lacking in business judgment. The firm seemed to do well for a few years and then began to go down, and finally failed altogether, and Captain Crawford's whole property was swept out, and he with his family were left penniless. McDonald emigrated, to Arkansas, and was said to have built up again; but Captain Crawford remained poor to the day of his death ; he lived in Marion until three or four years ago, when he moved to Georgia, and died there about two years ago, eighty years of age. Captain Crawford was a good man, but the reverses to which he had been subjected soured his disposition, and he became apathetic as to all mankind; he left two sons, George and William, who are the only hope of perpetuating the name in that branch of the Crawford family. George Crawford is married and has children, whether sons or daughters, is unknown to the writer ; William is yet single. The connexion is yet large, but the name, like many others, may become extinct at least in that branch of the family, in another generation or two. What changes are wrought in one hundred and sixty years! The first James Crawford married a second time, and had a daughter, Sallie, who became the wife of the late Barfield Moody, a prominent man in his day in Marion, of whom more may be said hereinafter. Recurring to the late Chapman J. Crawford, it is proper to say that he was elected to the lower House of the Legislature in 1844, as hereinbefore stated, and again in 1846, and served two terms. In 1852, he was a candidate for the Senate against Dr. Robert Harllee, and after a very heated campaign, he was beaten by 171 majority, and, like Horace Greeley in 1872, did not survive the campaign more than a month. It was thought and said by some that his defeat killed him or contributed to his death ; he was a very ambitious man. ;



!CENSUS:1790 Prince George Parish, Georgetown Dist, SC pg 54 w/James CRAWFORD age -16 (1774/90);


!DEED:21 Sep 1794 Marion Co., SC Deed Book D., p. 181
John Sanders of Liberty Co., SC to James Crawford Junr of same place, for L40 sterling, 50a granted to Joseph Black 3 Dec 1787 conveyed to John Sanders.
S: John Sanders
Wit: Thomas Lane, Sarahann Crawford
Pr before James Crawford, JP 23 Sep 1794
Elizabeth (her mark) Sanders, wife of John Sanders rdr 7 Apr 1804 before Robert Moody, JQ.
* From "Marion County South Carolina Abstracts of Deeds Volume One Books A - E 1800-1811", Lucille Utley, Alita White Sutcliffe, 1996.;


!CENSUS:1800 Marion Dist, SC pg 806 w/James CRAWFORD age 10-15 (1784/90);

!WITNESS:24 Nov 1804 Marion Dist, SC Deeds C-256 Mortgage. Charles MELOY of Marion Dist, SC to Sarah TART of same place for 20, 150a granted to John SMITH Sr NE side Catfish bound by Enos TART. S: Charles Meloy. Wit: Enos TART, James CRAWFORD Sr. Proven by James CRAWFORD Jr bef Samuel COOPER 19 May 1806. If Charles MELOY pays $100 to Sarah TART by 1 Jan 1806, deed to be void. Wit: James CRAWFORD Sr, probated by James CRAWFORD Jr. James CRAWFORD Sr appeared before Sam COOPER rec 19 May 1806;

!TAXLIST:1809 Marion Dist, SC James CRAWFORD Jr;

!CENSUS:1810 Marion Dist, SC pg 84 James CRAWFORD Jr age 16-25 (1784/94) "00100-00000-0-0";

!PURCHASE:24 Jan 1812 Marion Dist, SC Sales Book A-28 Estate of Robert MOODY. Purchasers: ... Roger ROBERTS, James CRAWFORD Jr, Reden ROBERTS ...;

!NAMED: 8 Sep 1812 Marion Dist, SC Sales Book A-129 Sylvester ROCKWELL Estate. Purchasers: ... James CRAWFORD ... Enos TART ... James CRAWFORD Jr, James CRAWFORD Sr ...;

!NAMED:19 Feb 1814 Marion Dist, SC Sales Book A-75 William OWENS Estate. Purchasers: ... Hugh CRAWFORD ... James CRAWFORD Jr ... James G. CRAWFORD ...;


!NAMED-PROBATE ROLL # 162 Marion Co., SC James Crawford, Sr. 1817
Will dated 16 Sep 1816 (see full transcript in James Crawford's notes)
Proved by John Finklea 11 Nov 1817. James Crawford qualified as Executor 11 Nov 1817.
... (Sales, appraisements, etc. in file, I did not abstract) ...
Account Current 1818 and 1819, James Crawford, Exec.
...
Paid John Tart heir to said estate
Paid: (not listed as heirs, but some are heirs)
B. Moody
Jas Stackhouse
John Gasque
John Bethea
John K. Windham
Abijah Porter
John Jones
Jesse Moody
Levi Blackman
Osburn Lane
John Davis
John Bridges
Hugh Crawford
John Gibson
Proved 31 Mar 1820 Thomas Harllee, Ordy...
* From "Marion County Probate Records" Volume 1, Lucille Utley, Danny Smith. Three Rivers Historical Society. 1985.;


!NAMED:11 Nov 1817 Marion Dist, SC Minutes of the Ordinary 1810-25 Proved Will of James CRAWFORD by oath of ----, one of the witnesses and qualified James CRAWFORD as Executor.;

!ORDER:11 Nov 1817 Marion Dist, SC Minutes of the Ordinary 1810-25 Orders to James CRAWFORD, exor of James CRAWFORD to sell surplus property;

!SALE: 5 Oct 1818 Marion Dist, SC Minutes of the Ordinary 1810-25 Sales of estate of James CRAWFORD from James CRAWFORD Jr, exor;

!NAMED:22 Nov 1819 Marion Dist, SC Sales Book A-102 Abijah PORTER Estate. Purchasers: Charity PORTER, James CRAWFORD ... Duncan CAMPBELL ...;

!NAMED: 1 Apr 1820 Marion Dist, SC Minutes of the Ordinary 1810-25 First account current of estate of James CRAFFORD of Exor James CRAFFORD;

!CENSUS:1820 Marion Dist, SC pg 56 James CRAWFORD age 26-44 (1775/94) "100020-30110-0-0";

!NAMED:20 Nov 1821 Marion Dist, SC Inventory Book 1827-1836 pg 14 John HENRY Estate. Merchant. Notes & Accounts: ... Benjamin JOHNSON Sr ... Roger ROBERTS ... Richard JOHNSON son of Sam, ... Francis JOHNSON, James CAMPBELL ... Duncan CAMPBELL ... James JAMES ... Theophilus CAMPBELL ... Alexander LANE ... Carey JOHNSON, son of Lewis, ... Levy BLACKMAN ... Norton ROBERTS ... Elizabeth CRIB ... Lewis JOHNSON ... John BLACKMAN ... John TURNER, Samuel JOHNSON, Mrs. Kezia ROBERTS ... Cresse BARNES ... Scarce Book WATSON Jr ... James CRAWFORD ... Readon ROBERTS ... Jeremiah CAMPBELL ... Anthony CRIB ... James CRAWFORD ... David BLACKMAN ... Gadi CRAWFORD & James G. CRAWFORD ... Willis HUGGINS ... David EDWARDS ... Dempsy CRIBB ... Col. James JOHNSON ... Willis & James G. CRAWFORD ...;

!NAMED: 7 Nov 1822 Marion Dist, SC Inventory Book 1827-1836 pg 12 Jesse BRYANT Estate. Appraisers: James CRAWFORD, Enos TART, John DEER, John JONES;

!TAXLIST:1824 Marion Dist, SC James CRAWFORD $2.48;

!NAMED:26 Mar 1827 Marion Dist, SC Inventory Book 1827-1836 pg 6 James CRAWFORD Estate. Inventory & Appraisement. Appraisers: Daniel PLATT, Charles GODBOLD, Isham WATSON. Notes: ... B. MOODY & James CRAWFORD payable to John COLEMAN. ... John SANDERS ... Tobias CRAWFORD ... Dempsey CAMPBELL ... Hugh G. CRAWFORD. Accounts: ... Thomas JAMES. 1825 Proved acct against the estate of John CAMPBELL. Accounts: ... Joel BARNES ... Charity PORTER ...;

!NAMED: 2 May 1829 Marion Dist, SC Inventory Book 1827-1836 pg 37 James CRAWFORD Estate as shewn to us by John H. CHERRY, adm. Proved Account Estate of James CAMPBELL ... Joel BARNES ... Charity PORTER ... Notes: ... Dempsy CAMPBELL ... Hugh G. CRAWFORD ...;

!NOTE:See Marion Probate Records Vol I, # 158 James CRAWFORD;

!CENSUS:1830 * DECEASED *;

!REFERENCE:"A History of Marion County, South Carolina" by W.W. Sellers, Esq. 1902. Pg 142 - 147;

!REFERENCE: A History of Marion County, South Carolina From Its Earliest Times to the Present, 1901, by W. W. Sellers, Esq., of the Marion Bar. 1902. pp. 142-147
...
- James Crawford, the father of Chapman J. Crawford, married Miss Rachel Nevils, and by her bad two sons, Chapman J. and William H., and three or four daughters ; one married Peter P. Johnson, of Fayetteville, N. C. ; one married D. C. Milling, of Darlington, and one married D. J. McDonald, long a merchant at Marion, and Representative from Marion in the State Legislature in 1850, and finally failing in his business, removed to Arkansas. James Crawford, the second, was a very prosperous man, left a large estate, and died in the prime of life. His widow, Rachel, married Dr. Cherry, and by him had several daughters; one of them married, first. Dr. Richard Scarborough, of Marion; he soon died childless, and his widow then married Major O. P. Wheeler, and after some years he died, and she remained his widow for several years, when she died. Another daughter of Mrs. Cherry became the wife of the late C. Graham, of Marion ; she died before he did, and left an only child, a son, Herbert C. Graham, now residing in Marion. Another daughter, Sarah Jane, became the wife of Dr. J. Hamilton Wheeler, who died and left her a widow with two children, Ed. B. Wheeler and Tiston C. Wheeler, now residing in Marion ; their mother, Sarah Jane, still lives. Dr. Cherry, a most excellent and upright man, died away back in the '40's ; he was a well-to-do man. The sons of James Crawford, the second, were Chapman J. and William H. Crawford. Chapman was an ambitious, energetic and enterprising man; married, first, a Miss Jolly, an only child of Joseph Jolly, a very wealthy man in West Marion ; she died, leaving an only child; he married again, and the second wife died, and he married a third time. I think he had two or three children in all. Dr. Ross married the daughter by the Jolly wife; Junius H. Law, of Darlington, married a daughter by one of his other wives. By his energy and push and by his marriages, he made property and left a large estate at his death, which occurred in November, 1852, when only in the prime of life; he lived fast (not in the sense of a dissipated life) and went through life in a hurry. His younger brother, Wm. H. Crawford, grew up and married a Miss Durant, sister of Rev. H. H. Durant, of the South Carolina Conference of the Southern Methodist Church; he married, loth February, 1840, the same day of Queen Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert. Captain Crawford started out in life with fine prospects; he went into a large mercantile business at Marion, in partnership with his brother-in-law, D. J. McDonald, who had had some training for such business-a man of push and enterprise, but lacking in business judgment. The firm seemed to do well for a few years and then began to go down, and finally failed altogether, and Captain Crawford's whole property was swept out, and he with his family were left penniless. McDonald emigrated, to Arkansas, and was said to have built up again; but Captain Crawford remained poor to the day of his death ; he lived in Marion until three or four years ago, when he moved to Georgia, and died there about two years ago, eighty years of age. Captain Crawford was a good man, but the reverses to which he had been subjected soured his disposition, and he became apathetic as to all mankind; he left two sons, George and William, who are the only hope of perpetuating the name in that branch of the Crawford family. George Crawford is married and has children, whether sons or daughters, is unknown to the writer ; William is yet single. The connexion is yet large, but the name, like many others, may become extinct at least in that branch of the family, in another generation or two. What changes are wrought in one hundred and sixty years! The first James Crawford married a second time, and had a daughter, Sallie, who became the wife of the late Barfield Moody, a prominent man in his day in Marion, of whom more may be said hereinafter. Recurring to the late Chapman J. Crawford, it is proper to say that he was elected to the lower House of the Legislature in 1844, as hereinbefore stated, and again in 1846, and served two terms. In 1852, he was a candidate for the Senate against Dr. Robert Harllee, and after a very heated campaign, he was beaten by 171 majority, and, like Horace Greeley in 1872, did not survive the campaign more than a month. It was thought and said by some that his defeat killed him or contributed to his death ; he was a very ambitious man. ;!CENSUS:1820 Marion Dist, SC pg 56 w/James CRAWFORD age 26-44 (1775/94);

!CENSUS:1830 Marion Dist, SC pg 11 w/John A. CHERRY age 30-39 (1790/1800);

!CENSUS:1840 Marion Dist, SC pg 161 w/John A. CHERRY age 40-49 (1790/1800);

!CENSUS:1850 Marion Dist, SC # 1701 Rachael CHERRY, 54 (1795/96) born Marion;

!CENSUS:1860 Marion Dist, SC # 265
C. D. EVANS, 43 Lawyer, SC
S. J. (f) 35,
Julius H., 10
C. D. (m), 8
E. J. (f), 6
W. W. (m) 3
Samuel, 1
Rachael CHERRY, 65, domestic
J. H. CUSACK, 21, (m), Clerk
W. P. SHOOTER, 23, (m);

!PROBATE:Marion Co, SC Probates Vol III, Roll # 2153, pg 230;