James W. Crawford

Birth Date

1821-02-28

Death Date

1899-02-20

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Shelby County, Kentucky, merchant and farmer. Shelby County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Crawford and Cassandra Thomas Crawford. Married to Phebe Guthrie Crawford on December 14, 1848. Father of James Crawford, Louella Crawford, John C. Crawford, Edwin T. Crawford, and Robert F. Crawford. Merchant in Chestnut Grove, Kentucky, from 1859 to 1860. Farmer in Shelby County in 1860. Owned nine enslaved persons in Shelby County in 1860.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District No. 1, p. 50.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District No. 1, p. 21.
"James W Crawford (1821 - 1899)," Find A Grave, Memorial #28936753, accessed September 28, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28936753.
W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 6th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1888), 779-80.

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