When Willard Elisha Crawford was born in April 1862, in Alabama, United States, his father, Levi Crawford, was 38 and his mother, Bridget C. "Biddie" Garland, was 29. He married Sarah Jane Ward on 23 September 1886, in Rhea, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Justice Precinct 7, Falls, Texas, United States in 1900 and Big Hill Township, Osage, Oklahoma, United States in 1910. He died on 14 March 1916, in Shamrock, Creek, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 53, and was buried in Stroud, Lincoln, Oklahoma, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In April of 1865, the steamboat the Sultana exploded. The Civil War had been over for awhile so this was considered the worst maritime disaster in US history. Compared to the Titanic where 1,512 people were killed, 1,8000 soldiers were killed on the Sultana. Confederate soldiers that weeks earlier had been fighting with Union soldiers were now fighting to save their lives.
When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.
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’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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