When Ira W Crawford was born on 17 September 1817, in Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, New York, United States, his father, Robert Crawford, was 37 and his mother, Deborah Wood, was 34. He married Emeline Officer on 16 September 1846, in Holmes, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Prairie Township, Holmes, Ohio, United States in 1850 and Chili Township, Hancock, Illinois, United States for about 20 years. He died on 1 October 1893, in United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Sheridan Cemetery, Union Township, Worth, Missouri, United States.
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By 1829 Venus, Illinois had grown sufficiently and in 1832 was one of the contenders for the new county seat. However, the honor was awarded to a nearby city, Carthage. In 1834 the name Venus was changed to Commerce because the settlers felt that the new name better suited their plans. But during late 1839, arriving members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bought the small town of Commerce and in April 1840 it was renamed Nauvoo by Joseph Smith Jr., who led the Latter-Day Saints to Nauvoo to escape persecution in Missouri. The name Nauvoo is derived from the traditional Hebrew language. It is notable that by 1844 Nauvoo's population had swollen to around 12,000 residents, rivaling the size of Chicago at the time. After the Latter-Day Saints left the population settled down toward 2,000 people.
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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