Re: Mastin Duke Crawford Ancestors (helping clarify)
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Re: Mastin Duke Crawford Ancestors???
Gerry Pope 4/14/02
Seems there is much confusion regarding the various appearances of MASTIN DUKE CRAWFORD.
I am in possession of various letters dated around 1903, that were written to E.A. CRAWFORD of Midway Florida, who did a considerable amount of Research about the Crawfords.
Anyone wishing to share information regarding Rev. Mastin Duke Crawford, his parents, or his descendants please feel free to drop me a line.(I sometimes don't answer very fast...because I work most of the time)
Rev. Mastin Duke Crawford is the Grandson of John Crawford and Mary Duke, and the son of COL. John A. Crawford and a Miss Mastin (Mstin)
Rev. Crawford married a Miss Covington (Charlotte?)...According to some accounts this Miss Covington is possibly the sister or Rebecca Covington who married Rev. Mastin Duke Crawford's brother, Thomas Crawford(my direct line).
Rev. Mastin Duke Crawford had children (but not sure of how many ?)But of the ones I list here I am sure.
1.Thomas Anderson Crawford (who married Julia B. Cole and later moved from Rockingham NC to Tennessee)
2.Mastin Duke Crawford II (who according to my great grandfather's notes....was a lawyer who settled 1st in Mississippi, and then later moved in 1868 to California.He and Col. Downey laid out the town of Downey (a suburb of Los Angeles).His son Terrell R. Crawford was supposedly still living there around 1923, and another son James Crawford was living in Memphis in 1923.
NOTES:
1.In a letter from Mastin Duke Crawford (a son of Thomas Anderson Crawford) he wrote that his Grandfather Rev. Mastin Duke Crawford "left 2 sons, Thomas A. and Mastin D. and one daughter Julia.
2.In another letter from the Granddaughter of Thomas Anderson Crawford, she indicated the following about Rev. Mastin Duke Crawford:"Mastin was a Methodist preacher and married a Covington.His sons were Tom, John, Henry, Mastin, and Rich.Daughters Bettie & Julia.Bettie married a Rush; Julia married Wes Leak.Tom (my grandfather) is T.A. Crawford married Julia Cole .................""Mastin settled in Mississippi and moved the Los Angeles Cal, just after the war, his wife died and he married the second time.I have been told that he has a son living in Memphis, Tenn by the name of James Crawford"
Maybe this sheds some light.
Maybe it just confuses more.
Your Cousin:
Christopher "Kit" Crawford
in Tennessee
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Re: Mastin Duke Crawford Ancestors (helping clarify)
Gerry Pope 2/13/06