When William Samuel Crawford was born on 3 February 1833, in Cherokee, North Carolina, United States, his father, John Crawford, was 26 and his mother, Mary Styles, was 23. He married Christina Kindall on 15 January 1860, in Fannin, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Union, Georgia, United States in 1850. He died on 28 June 1864, in Fannin, Georgia, United States, at the age of 31, and was buried in Antioch Cemetery, Fannin, Georgia, United States.
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A minority group of Cherokees including John Ridge, Major Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and Stand Waite, signed the Treaty of New Echota which ceded all Cherokee territory east of the Mississippi in exchange for five million dollars. The majority of Cherokees did not agree and 16,000 Cherokee signatures were gathered to protest the treaty. Boudinot and both Ridges were killed several years later by angry Cherokees for signing the treaty.
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
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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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Possible Related NamesWilliam S. fought on the Confederate side. He was assigned to the 65 Georgia Infantry Regiment, Company b and Company I and held the rank of Private when discharged. as recorded in U. S. Civil War So …
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