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Born 1849
From History of Coshocton County, Ohio: its past and present, 1740-1881. Containing a comprehensive history of Ohio; a complete history of Coshocton County ... a history of its soldiers in the late war ... (1881)
CRAWFORD J. R., clerk in the firm of Hay & Morley; born September 27, 1849, in Crawford township; son of Scott R. Crawford, a native of the County Tyrone, Ireland. He was raised on the farm until seventeen years of age, when he began clerking for John J. Stewart and continued a clerk to the present time. He was married in March 1872, to Miss Mary Le Retilley, daughter of George Le Retilly of Roscoe. To them have been born two children, George R. and another.
As printed in History of Coshocton County, Ohio: its past and present, 1740-1881. Containing a comprehensive history of Ohio; a complete history of Coshocton County ... a history of its soldiers in the late war ... (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
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