Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 6th ed., 1887,
Trimble Co.

JAMES CRAWFORD, assessor of Trimble County, was born in Owen County, Ky.,
May 3, 1854, the fifth of eight children born to William H. and Elizabeth
(Wood) Crawford.  William H. Crawford was born in Mercer County, Ky., and
was a son of James and Juda Crawford, natives of Virginia, but among the
first families who settled in Mercer County.  They afterward moved to Owen
County, Ky., where they both died.  Elizabeth Wood was born in Mercer
County, a daughter of David Wood, an early settler in that county, but a
native of Virginia.  He afterward moved to Carroll County, Ky., where he
lived and died.  William H. Crawford was brought up on the farm, and
received only a common-school education, but was a man who read a great
deal, and was of more than average ability.  He moved to Owen County when
a boy, and there remained until 1886, when he moved to Trimble County and
settled where our subject now resides, a few miles south of Milton on the
Madison and Bedford Turnpike.  He married about 1849, and reared a family
who now rank among the best citizens of Trimble County. He died February
23, 1881, but his widow is still living.  James Crawford was reared on
the farm, and received a very good education in the graded schools.  In
1874 he commenced school teaching, and has followed the same successfully
ever since.  In August 1886, he was elected assessor of Trimble County,
and is the present incumbent of that office, and is also secretary of the
Madison and Bedford Turnpike Company.  Politically he is a Democrat.

Crawford Wood
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Owen-KY Mercer-KY Owen-KY Carroll-KY VA

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