• General Notes

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  REFN: 7915
  Notes for JAMES A. CRAWFORD:
  James A. was a rancher, farmer, saw a nd grist-mill owner. For some survey
  work, he received a 350-400 acre grant t hrough
  the help of Governor Bell, and later bought about 1200 acres more, whic h
  he owned when he died and on which some of his
  descendants live today, and where the family cemetery is located. He
  married his first cousin Rachel S. Crawford in Lincoln
  County, Tennessee abt 1827. Mrs. Loraine Wingo writes that James A. came
  to Texas in the early part of 1830 with the
  Stephen F. Austin Coastal Colony as a surveyor (which helped to establish
  a water way to the c oast on the Colorado River),
  and settled in the early 1850's in Dewitt County on the Guadalupe River
  and McCoy Creek. His youngest child, Thomas
  Edward Cr awford, with an old Negro slave made several trips to the coast
  (Gulf of Mexi co) to a shipping port called "Powder
  Horn" to take and sell their cotton. He was a devoted Presbyterian and
  raised his children to be the same.

Details of James A's family with Rachel Sawyers Crawford