When Florence Leona Thompson was born on 21 March 1888, in Shippenville, Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Horace Burton Thompson, was 23 and her mother, Sarah Anna Haupt, was 24. She married George Washington Crawford on 2 February 1907, in Shippenville, Clarion, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 8 daughters. She lived in Fincastle, Botetourt, Virginia, United States for about 10 years and Fincastle Magisterial District, Botetourt, Virginia, United States in 1940. She died on 6 January 1967, in New Castle, Craig, Virginia, United States, at the age of 78.