Crawford, Ebenezer

EBENEZER CRAWFORD, son of John and Isabella (Parker) Crawford, was born March 14, 1789, and died January 31, 1859. He married Jannette, daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth (Johnson) Grant, both natives of Scotland. Alexander Grant built the first stone house in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; thence he removed to Butler county, and died in Armstrong county about 1833, the death of his wife having occurred some years previously. Ebenezer Crawford was the father of thirteen children: Alexander B., living at Emlenton; John P., of Scrubgrass township; Eliza, who died in infancy; Isabel, married to Harvey Gibson, of Martinsburg, Butler county; William R., ex-sheriff of Venango county; Ebenezer, of Emlenton, who married Elizabeth Wilson; Robert J., deceased; Matilda J., married to Aaron Harvey Crawford, of Emlenton; Samuel W., of Emlenton, who married Jane Truby; Emmeline Louther, widow of George W. Livingston, of Stark, Florida; Elizabeth J., who died in infancy; Aaron Harvey, of Emlenton, married to Martha J. Ross, and Elihu C., who at the age of eighteen was killed by accident in a coal mine.