Stephen's Smith Family - Ancestors, Descendants and Cousins

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Ethel Maude Crawford

Maude Crawford Higdon died at the home of her mother in Emerson, Iowa, and was buried in San Bernadino, California. She has lived in Illinois, Lousiana, Texas, Colorado and California. She joined the L.D.S. church in 1897.

David Lisle Crawford

DEATH: Obituary - SUDDEN DEATH OF LYLE CRAWFORD SHOCKS COMMUNITY
The sudden death of D. L. Crawford in an automobile accident at Wyoming Tuesday afternoon (November 15, 1938) came as a great shock to the community and a terrible blow to his family and relatives. Lyle was a man of such congenial personality that he attracted friends wherever he went. Since taking over the general salesmanship for the National Hybrid Seed Corn Co., he had been very successful and the company had increased his field and responsibility as a reward for the fine showing he had made the past year. His territory covered several of the midwestern states from Ohio to Nebraska.
    David Lyle Crawford, only child of James K. and Allie Koch Crawford, was born on the farm near Miles, which was still his home at the time of his passing, on Thanksgiving day, November 24, 1885, and died at the age of 52 years, 11 months and 23 days. He spent his entire life in this community and on March 14, 1907, was married to Miss Lula Menneke. To this union four children were born, who with the bereaved wife and mother, are left to mourn a kind and loving husband and father. They are Kenneth, of Beverly Hills, California, Lucille (Mrs. Godfrey King), of Hollywood, California, Charles of Winnfield, Iowa, and James, at home. His father, passed away on May 10, 1937, and his aged mother is also left to mourn the passing of her only child.
    This entire community unites in extending their heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved family so suddenly stricken with grief. The community also realizes that in the death of Mr. Crawford they have lost a good citizen.
    Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at the Methodist Federated church in Miles. Services of DeMolay Consistory, of which Mr. Crawford, was a memeber, will also be carried out. Burial will be in the Miles cemetery, the site of which was one of the projects fostered and carried to completion when J. K. Crawford, father of the deceased, was a member of the Miles council.

DEATH: D L CRAWFORD, MILES, INSTANTLY KILLED WHEN AUTO STRIKES TRAIN
    David Lyle Crawford, 52, well-known farmer of near Miles, met instant death at 2:35 o'clock Tuesday afternoon when the automobile he was driving struck a Milwaukee train at Wyoming.
     Mr. Crawford, in addition to operating a farm west of Miles, had for the past year been traveling representative of the National Hybrid Seed Corn Co., of Anamosa. He left his home about 1:30 Tuesday afternoon on a business trip to the firm's offices at Anamosa. Just as he drove around the curve on Route 64 going into Wyoming and as he approached the railroad crossing a southbound Monticello-Davenport freight came along. It is stated that a large lumber shed somewhat obscures the view of the tracks at this point and it is evident that Mr. Crawford did not see the train until too late to stop his car. He did, however, attempt to swerve the auto parallel to the tracks and avoided hitting the locomotive, but the engine tender sideswiped the Crawford car enough to hurtle it along the right-of-way for some distance finally overturning the automobile in the ditch with the driver underneath the wreck.
    The train crew and others hurriedly removed the auto, which was a total wreck, but Mr. Crawford was dead before aid could reach him.