Blanche E. Crawford, born in Lorain county, Ohio, August 23, 1865, a daughter of John W. and Sarah J. (Robertson) Crawford. Mr. and Mrs. Crawford were natives of Ohio. They went to Kansas in 1881 and there Mr. Crawford died at the age of forty-four years, leaving a widow, three daughters and two sons. The eldest son, Bert Crawford, of Oklahoma, is married and has five children. Ida M., is the wife of W. B. Essick, of Ellsworth, Kansas; Maud A., Mrs. Flanagan's twin sister, married Edwin Walker, has four sons and lives in Kansas; Charles C., is living in Kansas, unmarried. Mrs. Crawford, mother of these children, is residing in Ellsworth, Kansas. Mrs. Flanagan removed with her parents to Kansas and at sixteen years of age she began teaching school in Ellsworth county, which profession she followed for six years. Mr. and Mrs. Flanagan have had three children: Roy A., the eldest, was born February 4, 1887, in Ellsworth, Kansas, and is now in school. Ella Maud, also in school, was born April 29, 1889, in Mills county, Iowa. Neva May was born March 7, 1895 and died February 5, 1897.
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