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Hazel move to Callaway county, Missouri with her family when she was nine years old. She grew up near the town of McCredie, Missouri, and attended William Wood College in Fulton. Her brother, Floyd Crawford, wnet to Minnesota to work in a brick factory, just prior to World War I. There hs met a fellow worker by the name of John Henderson. John started writing to Floyd's sister Hazel and after corresponding for awhile, Hazel and john wer married Dec. 1, 1917. They lived in Clarisa, Minnesota, where John farmed. Their first four children were born there. They moved to McCredie, Missouri in the late 1920's, where they lived and farmed near Hazel's father and stepmother. Their last child Shirley was born there in 1931. John lost an arm in the mid-1940's, when he was injured in a sowing machine accident at the farm.
DEATH: Mrs. Henderson Dies at Hospital - services Friday Afternoon at McCredie Church
Funeral services will be held for Mrs. Hazel Alphia Henderson, 61, of Route 1, McCredie, Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the McCredie Methodist Church. Mrs. Henderson died Tuesday morning at 11:30 o'clock at the Callaway Hospital, where she was admitted Monday.
The Rev. J. D. Randolph of Rochepot will officiate, and burial will be in the McCredie Cemetery.
Mrs. Henderson was born in Miles, Iowa, on January 19, 1893, the daughter of the late Robert G. and Ida Small Crawford, She moved to Missouri with her parents in 1903. On Dec . 1, 1917, she married John L. Henderson. He survives.
Other survivors are: one daughter, Mrs. Virginia Stone of El Paso, Texas; three sons, John L. Henderson of Columbia, Robert J. Henderson of Warrenton, and James G. Henderson of McCredie; and eight grandchildren. One child, Shirley Ann, died in infancy.
Robert came to Miles, Jackson county, Iowa with his parents in october 1872. There he grew to manhood and joined the Miles Methodist church in 1886. On February 26, 1892, nine days after his marriage to Ida, he bought a farm consisting of 196 1/2 acres, bout 1 mile west of the town of Miles, Iowa. It was on this farm that his three children were born. In 1903 he took his family and moved to Callaway county, Missouri, where on Dec 23, 1903 he purchased a farm consisting of 160 acres, near McCredie, Missouri, where he lived the remainder of his life.
Robert was ill about 2 years before his death.DEATH: R. G. Crawford of McCredie Dies Here--A Native of Canda, He Lived In County for Past 42 years
Robert Gardner Crawford, 78, died a the Callaway Hospital late Sunday night after an illness of about two years. He had been a patient a t the hospital for the past two weeks.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the McCredie Methodist church and burial will be in the church cemetery. Dr. J. D. Randolph of Hannibal will officiate.
Mr. Crawford, who operated a farm near McCredie for the past forty-two hears, was born February 24, 1867, in guelph, Canada, a son of Gardner and Eliza Gray Crawford, His parents were natives of Ireland. They came to the United States in 1871, settling near Miles, Iowa. In 1892 Mr. Crawford married Miss Ida Small, who died in 1915. They had one daughter, Mrs. John Henderson, now a resident of the McCredie neighborhood. He was married a second time in 1919 to Miss Julia Gilman of Reform, who survives him as do two brothers, Frank P. Crawford of St. Charles, Ill., and Sam Crawford of Cameron, Mo., a number of neces and nephews, four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
DEATH: Mrs. R. G. Crawford Dead.
Mrs. may Crawford, 43 years old, died at her home one mile west of McCredie Wednesday night, of a complication of diseases. She had been in bad health for several years, and in February went to Rochester, Minnesota to be treated, but was not benefitted. The family had not made funeral arrangements Thursday morning, but it is expected that she will be furied in Iowa Saturday.
Mrs. Crawford's maiden name was Miss May Small, and she was reared in Jackson county, Iowa. She was married to R. G. Crawford in Miles, Iowa. Mr. Crawford, with his family, moved to their farm west of McCredie about eleven years ago, and have lived there since that time. Besides her husband, Mrs. Crawford is survived by a daughter, Miss Hazel Crawford, and two sons, Floyd and Merwin. She also has four sisters, all of whom live outside of the county.
Mrs. Crawford was a quiet, well disposed woman, making many friends in the northern part of the county during her residence here, and will be greatly missed by all who knew her.
DEATH: Floyd died of wounds and pneumonia aboard ship to France while in the army in 1918 during WWI.
DEATH: MERWIN CRAWFORD SHOT AND KILLED
Went to the Home of Elmer Shryock for Aid in Getting Car Out of Ditch Was Mistaken for Robber
Merwin Crawford, about 30 years old, a young farmer residing one mile southwest of McCredie and a former member of the Westminster College football team, was shot and almost instantly killed at about 11 o'clock, tuesday night, by Elmer Shryock, abut 34 years old, at the latter's home, four miles east of Stephens. Crawford wa killed near a window at the Shryock home where he was discovered with a flashlight.
Shryock, before the coroner's jury Wednesday morning, testified that Crawford advanced oward him after he had gone out of his home in his night clothes to investigate the barking of his dog. Shryock called to Crawford but in the darkness could not identify him, although he knew him well. Shryock asserts that Crawford did not answer him and when he kept advancing Shryock shot him with a shot gun that he had taken from the dining room wall as he left the house. Crawford lived abut thirty minutes but made no coherent statement. The charge from the shotgun had made a gaping wound in his right side.
Shryock declared that he believed him to be an intruder and that he wa in danger when Crawfrod advanced toward him without answering Shryocks threat to shoot unless he made known his name and mission there.
Crawford had spent the evening with Miss Emma Adcock, formerly connected with the First National Bank of this city and was on his way home when the shooting occurred. His automobile was found mired in a small country road a short distance from the Shryock home.
Crawford was the son of R. G. Crawford, prominent in Republican political circles of Callaway county, and at present a member of the Republican central committee.
The young man was well-known in social and business circles of Fulton, because of his connection with the Blue Jay football team and his frequent visits here since that time.
Shryock is married and has a wife and four children. He is a member of a family that has been prominent in Callaway county a long time, a number of the Shryocks being large mule feeders.
Floyd Crawford, a brother of young Crawford, also was a former star of the Westminster College football team and was killed in France during the world war. Young Crawford is survived by his father and a married sister, Mrs. John Henderson.
At the conclusion of an inquest held Wednesday morning by Coroner C. H. Christian the jury exonerated Shryock of any responsibility in the killing.
DEATH: FRANCIS P. CRAWFORD CALLED BY DEATH
Francis P. Crawford, son of Gardner and Eliza Crawford was born at Hillsburg, Ont., Canada, July 1, 1863, and passed away at his home in St. Charles, Ill., on March 2, 1949.
He was united in marriage to Mrs. Selma Long on Sept. 23, 1887, and it was their privilege to celebrate their golden wedding and also their 60th anniversary together.
He joined the Methodist church in Miles Feb. 18, 1878, under the pastorate of Rev. W. N. Chaffee, and was a faithful christian all through the years. While health permitted he was a very active member in the church and was an inspiration to his pastors. For a number of years he taught the men's class.
For many years he was agent on the Great Western railroad and later was Division Freight and Passenger Agent with executive office in Chicago.
Thirteen years ago he retired after nearly fifty-three years of faithful service.
He was a member of Unity Lodge, A.F. & A.M. of St. Charles, and was the oldest Past Master. He was a member of Oriental Consistory in Chicago, a former chairman of the Zoning Commission in St. Charles, secretary of the Fox Valley Traffic association and was made an honorary member.
Last September he was stricken witha paralytic stroke and since that time was confined to his home and most of the time in his bed. He was patient, though suffering and enjoyed having his friends visit him. He was tenderly cared for but in spite of all loving hands could do his spirit was called home.
He leaves to mourn his death, his wife, a son R. Dale Crawford of Chicago, a daughter Ruth, and Mrs. R. J. Drake, of Hamilton, Ohio. Also four grandchildren, one brother S. C. Crawford, Cameron, Mo., a number of nieces and nephews and a host of friends.
Funeral services were held at the St. Charles Methodist church with burial in the Acadia Park cemetery, Chicago.BIOGRAPHY: Presenting Francis parry Crawford, division freight and passenger agent, Chicago as he is and as he was years ago--that is, pictorially speaking--for the years may have etched a few lines and left their imprint of dignity upon the features, but the spirit that shines through the eyes is just as hopeful and joyous as ever.
Born in Wellington county, Ontariio, Canada, Mr. Crawford was brought to iowa at the age of nine. "The romance of the rail," he said, "made its appeal at an early age, but it was the engineer in charge of the brass-mounted locomotive of those days who was the hero of my youthful dreams. Not being possessed of mechanical genius in the slightest degree, my desire to become an engineer vanished, but not so the longing to be connected with the railroad in some capacity."
From December, 1883 to February, 1887, Mr. Crawford was employed on the Council Bluffs division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway as station assistant, baggageman, clerk, telegrapher, cashier, relief agent and agent. F. C. Batchelder, now vice-president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and president of the Chicago terminal of that railroad, was the first chief train dispatcher, and the late A. J. Earling, for many years president of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, was his first superintendent.
In February, 1887, the winter carnival and ice palace at St. Paul attracted the boy and in connection with this trip he visited an old friend, W. F. Hallam at that time agent at West Concord for the Minnesota & North Western Railroad. "My visit," said Mr. Crawford extended over three weeks, and my....friend, being an eternal optimist and high pressure salesman, succeeded in selling the railroad to me. E. G. Russell, then assistant general superintendent, employed me, my first assignment being the agency at Dennison," If the auditor's records were available, he tells us, it would show "Dennison station transferred on February 24th, 1887, from O. J. Mulstertegan to F. P Crawford," If I am not mistaken" he added, "Charlie McCloud, still a Northern division agent, was checked in at Randolph the previous day."
"Our officials were much more liberal in those days than at present," he humorouly observed. "They gave us from fifteen to twenty hours in which to perform a day's service instead of the absurd eight hours now in vogue. This was especially noticeable in the winters of 1886, 1887 and 1888 when snow blackades were the regular order. Relief agents must have been scarce, as my superintendent, Joel May, almost ruined my health by expressing doubt of his ability to relieve me so as to enable me to return to Illinois to get married in September, 1887. However, like many anticipated troubles, it did not happen. "
During the period between February, 1887, and May, 1927, Mr. Crawford has "stepped around" as follows:
Four years on the Northern division as agent, serving at Dennison and Kenyon. Five years on the Eastern division as operator at St. Charles and agent at Wasco and Byron. Livestock agent in Chicago for five years. Six and one-half years as contracting freight agent, Chicago, and since July 1st, 1912, division freight and passenger agent. Eastern division, with headquarters in Chicago.
Mr. Crawford enjoys the distinction of having a longer record of continuous service than any other member of the present traffic organization.
Recalling old associations, he said: "It's unfortunate that I have been away from the Northern division so long that even such members of the old guard as John Grininger and Eddie Farrell almost have to be told my name now, as we meet so seldom. "These two men were in passenger service, the former as conductor and the latter as baggageman," he added, "when I was hustling milk cans and chicken coops at Dennison and heavier articles at Kenyon."
Mr. Crawford is a charter member of the Chicago Great Western Railroad Veterans Association and is serving his first term as director for the Eastern Division, having been elected to that office at the third annual convention which was held at Des Moines on July 19th, 1926. As a director he has been a regular "go getter." Under his capable leadership, the Eastern Division membership has shown a remarkable increase.
And the following, we believe, epitomizes the sweetness of this man's outlook on life:
"The years," he tells us, "have been short and pleasant for a number of reasons: The inheritance of health and optimism; the extremely pleasant relations with officials and employees of all departments; the wonderful friends the years have brought, and last, but not least, being sufficiently old fashioned to desire and to be permitted to spend the years with the only woman."
Marriage Notes for Francis Parry Crawford and Selma Marie Long-6612
FETE SUBURBAN COUPLE ON 60TH WEDDED YEAR
Members of the immediate family will gather today in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Crawford, St. Charles, to felicitate them on their 60th wedding anniversary. Married in Leaf River, Ogle county, Sept. 28, 1887, the Crawfords resided in Minnesota for three years, and have lived the remaining 57 years of their married life in Illinois. They have been residents of St. Charles for 20 years.
Until his retirement in 1938, Crawford was in railroad service. During the last 26 years of his business life he was a division freight and passenger agent for the Chicago Great Western system.
The Crawfords have a son, R. Dale Crawford of Chicago, and a daughter, Mrs. Ronald Drake of Hamilton, Ohio. They also have a grandson and three granddaughters.