Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Eben J. Crawford and Nevada Anderson




Husband Eben J. Crawford 1

           Born: 27 May 1845 - Emlenton, Venango Co, PA 1
     Christened: 
           Died: 24 Mar 1915
         Buried:  - Emlenton Cemetery, Emlenton, Venango Co, PA 2


         Father: Alexander Bremmer Crawford (1815-1897) 3 4 5 6
         Mother: Margaret A. Anderson (1820-1901) 1 3 5


       Marriage: 

   Other Spouse: Alice Junida Patton (1850-1894) 1 7 - 9 Jan 1867 8



Wife Nevada Anderson 9

           Born: 
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           Died: 
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Children

General Notes: Husband - Eben J. Crawford


He attended the schools of Emlenton, PA, and learned the carpenter's trade with his father, which he followed until 1870. He then engaged in the furniture business in Confluence, Somerset County, PA. Closing out in 1874 he went into oil producing in Venango County. He was a Republican, and a member of the I. O. O. F. [HVC 1890, 939]

He learned the carpenter's trade in his early life, and after fifteen years as a carpenter and builder he embarked in the oil business, this having been in the year 1903, but on account of ill health he later retired in Colorado. In former years he was interested in the Farmers National Bank of Emlenton, Pennsylvania, and he was a member of the Presbyterian Church, the fraternal order of Odd Fellows and a Republican in his political affiliations. [HMC 1909, 824]

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Sources


1 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 939.

2 Margaret Segui Kahle, Emlenton Cemetery Interments (Emlenton, PA: Self-published, 1977), Pg 25.

3 J. H. Newton, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Columbus, OH: J. A. Caldwell Publishers, 1879), Pg 547.

4 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 938.

5 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 506.

6 Beverly L. Linsky, My Lineage Thru John Crawford and Isabelle Parker (Personal genealogy research, April, 2014).

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1044.

8 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 939, 945.

9 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 824.


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