HOLMES COUNTY OHIO 
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File contributed to the Ohio Biographies Project by
Jeanne Yoakam 
yoak@on-ramp.net 
February 21, 2001
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Biographical Record of Holmes County, 1889.


ALFRED W. CRAWFORD

Alfred W. Crawford, farmer, Hardy Township, is a native of Holmes
County, born in 1838. His father, Alfred Crawford, was a native of New
York, and on coming to Holmes County settled first in Prairie Township,
near Holmesville, where he lived until his  death; he died June 10,
1851, at the age of forty-nine years. He was married, in 1824, to Lydia
Andrus, who survived him many years; she died in 1880, at the age of
seventy-two years. They had a family of ten children, viz: Elmira, born
in 1825; Sallie, born in 1827; Ezra, in 1830; an infant, in 1833; S.A.,
in 1834; Asenath, in 1836; Alfred W., in 1838; Susan, in 1840; Perthena,
in 1843, and Cyrus A., in January, 1847.
Alfred W. Crawford was thirteen years old when his father died, and from
that age he had to assist his mother in the care of the farm, remaining
with her until after the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion.
October 14, 1861, he enlisted in Company H, Twenty-third Ohio Infantry,
for three years. He was a brave and gallant soldier, participating in
many of the leading battles of the war, and was discharged at the close
of his term of enlistment, October 14, 1864, and returned to his home in
Holmes County, where he has since devoted his attention to farming. He
is one of the prominent citizens of the county, and has held several
important official positions. He has been a member of the board of
supervisors and also of the school board. In politics he affiliates with
the Republican party. Mr. Crawford was married, in 1861, to Sarah J.,
daughter of Peter D. Biggs, and to them were born six children:
Alfaretta, Seth S., Lydia C., Rutherford B., Bessie and Ada. Mrs.
Crawford died in 1876, aged thirty-five years, and Mr. Crawford again
married, taking for his second wife Alma S., daughter of Lewis and
Delilah (Bates) Crawford.

submitted by Jeanne Casner Yoakam