When William Hamilton Crawford was born in December 1847, in South Carolina, United States, his father, John Alexander Crawford, was 35 and his mother, Jane McWilliams, was 30. He married Esther J Wright on 23 February 1871, in Cobb, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Smyrna, Cobb, Georgia, United States in 1880 and Bowie, Texas, United States in 1900. He died on 26 April 1918, in Texarkana, Bowie, Texas, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Texarkana, Miller, Arkansas, United States.
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In 1860, South Carolina quit the United States because its citizens were in favor of slavery and President Lincoln was not. The Civil War started a year later.
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
Scottish and English: habitational name from any of various places called Crawford, primarily the one in Lanarkshire (Scotland), and possibly also from the one in Lancashire. Both are named in Old English with crāwe ‘crow’ + ford ‘ford’.
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