To celebrate Valentine's Day, I'm re-posting my previous post about Golden Wedding anniversaries. I'm approaching my 50th wedding anniversary and my parents were married for over fifty years. Grandparents: Leon Crawford and Winnie Currey -- married Dec 1919; They were married 56 years before Leon passed away in Oct. 1976. Edward Osmond Briles and Pauline Mentzer were …
Category: Marriage
Young Brides
Last week, I re-looked at the 1920 census data across my tree. In the process of looking at that information, I was struck at how young my grandmother was, especially where she was a recent bride at the time. Thus, I decided this Valentines Day to look at the marriage ages of my 'grandmothers' in …
Crawford – Duggins Marriage Bond
Garrard County, Kentucky, Courthouse, Bond for marriage of James Crawford and Sally Duggins, #101, James Crawford, 12 September 1799; County Clerk, Garrard County, Kentucky, Lancaster, KY. This is to certyfy that I am willingto join in marriage with James Crawfordgiven under my hand this day duly [signed] Know all men by these presents thatwe James …
Creath Marriages
My trip to the Midwest Genealogical Library this past week led me to several Creath marriage records. Ripley county IndianaEarly Marriage records 1818-1839 compiled by Alice Ridlen2160 Mann DriveBeech Grove, IndianaCopyright Colleen Alice Ridlen 1980 page 7Creath, Margaret - William Phelp - February 16, 1837 - 2-104Creth, Ann - John B Roberts - Dec 25, …
Finding the Daughters
Have you ever tried to piece a family together without the aide of a document identifying children. That's what I'm trying to do with William E. Crawford, son of James and Rebecca (Anderson) Crawford. I'm using public member trees on Ancestry and the family on the FamilySearch tree as clues. Then I'm trying to find …
Crawford Marriages
St. Francois County, MissouriMarriage license record Marriage license records, vol. -2 1836-1876FamilySearch Film 914393 DGS 7578667 IndexedSearch for Crawford LC Crawford - James J Short — 11 March 1866Lucy E Crawford - Ira Howe - 10 APril 1865James Crawford - Isabella Carter - 30 Sept 1847 - page 97Isaac Crawford - Manervia Ross - 9 …
Alexander Crawford Marriage
KY-Lincoln-Marriages 1793-1841 Loose Papers, files 1-6 1781-1809FS Film 192262 - DGS 007899121 Image 190 Know all men by these presents that we Alexander Crawfrd & JamesGilmore are held and firmly bound unto his Excellencythe Governor of Virginia in the sum of Fifty pounds current moneyto which payment well and truly be made to the said …
Golden Legacy
Does your family throw a big parties? Have you had the good fortune to celebrate Golden Anniversaries in your family? My first exposure to a Golden Anniversary celebration was for my grandparents: Leon and Winnie Crawford. My grandparents celebrated with a reception held in the church. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Crawfordrequest the pleasure of your …
Celebrating 50 years
Do you enjoy some of the online genealogy prompts to look at your data from a different viewpoint? I know I do. Two of my currents sources for blogging prompts are Amy Johnson Crowe's #52ancestors and Randy Seaver's #SaturdayNightGenealogyFun. As I was working on a blog post about love, I found I have several of …