Robert Cecil CRAWFORD

  General Notes:

Photo: Like other members of his family, Robert Cecil Crawford is interred at Fairview Cemetery, Coffeyville, Montgomery County, Kansas.

Photo taken for ALLUM in 2006 by Joy Duvall, Coffeeville, Kansas
1878 BIRTH of Robert Cecil Crawford

According to his West Virginia birth record, Robert was born October 18, 1878; his gravestone reads 1878; his signed World War I Draft Registration provides "October 18, 1879" -- but is incorrect

1880 CENSUS. Where?

1900 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Allegheny Ward 4 ("Robert," age 21, born "October, 1878 in West Virginia," is "boarder" in the household of Mary E. Decker; his occupation was "Bookkeeper")

1904 DEATH (on January 11) of grandmother Nancy (Cumpston) (Allum) Newland (aka Newlyn)

1904 DEATH (on January 17) of father, Micheal Crawford

1910 CENSUS. Where?

1918 DRAFT Registration, Kansas, Montgomery County, Coffeyville ('Robert Cecil Crawford," age 38, born "October 18, 1879," "Salesman, For himself," nearest relative, "Mrs. E. M. Crawford [Mother]") (Notation: "Nervous disorder of several years standing which totally 'unfits' him for any service. While his occupation is shown as that of salesman, it was done at his own request. He is disqualified for any kind of service calling")

1920 CENSUS, Kansas, Montgomery County, Coffeyville ("Robert C. Crawford," age 45, "agent, insurance" is head of the two-person household that includes his widowed mother, "Eliza M.," age 75, widow)

1925 CENSUS, Kansas State Census, Montgomery County, Coffeyville ("Robert C. Crawford" ... is still age 45! ... and is "Insurance Agt.," this time shown in the household of his 80-year-old mother, "E. M. Crawford") (Robert is shown as having migrated to Kansas from Illinois, his mother to Kansas from West Virginia)

1930 CENSUS, Kansas, Montgomery County, Coffeyville (with "Robert C. Crawford," age 50, is his widowed mother, "Eliza M. Crawford," age 85, widow)

1931 DEATH of mother, Eliza Malinda (Allum) Crawford

1946 DEATH, Robert Cecil Crawford, at 67 years 7 months 29 days




DESCRIPTION (Robert): "Medium height, medium build, brown eyes, dark hair" (World War I Draft Registration)