Re: Rev. William C. Crawford NC>GA>AL>TX
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Re: Rev. William C. Crawford NC>GA>AL>TX
Kay Major 7/07/01
John Howard Rape, the father of Martha Rape Crawford, was a younger brother to my great-great grandfather, Archibald Rape.Both were sons of John Rape (I call him the arbor builder, because he built an arbor for the Methodist church in Union Co. NC. in 1830, which still stands and is still used.The people of that particular area of Union County, NC are very proud of that arbor and a large boulder stands on one side or the front of the Arbor with a bronz plaque telling the history of the arbor ...that John Rape built it etc. and names the first trustees of Pleasant Grove.)The results of the first part of my search into our Reeb ancestry (southern Rapes) was published in a book THE RAPE FAMILY TREE at my request by Nell Taylor Norvell in 1983.I continued the search into the German and Alsace Records and a small book giving the European portion was published in 1994. The most recent information I have on the descendants of John Howard Rape (Martha Rape Crawford's father) is that of the daughter who married James Aufil.They had two daughters before she died.I have heard from some of the descendants of one of he daughters.Thanks for writing to me.John V. Reeb ([email protected])