Four Generations Represented
Ceredo Advance, 22 Mar 1893, Page 1
It seldom happens that members of the same family, representing four generations, are permitted to assemble, but such was the case on the 7th inst. at an assembly in Catlettsburg, as the following communication, received too late for our last tissue, will show:
Catlettsburg, Ky, March 7, 1893 – Mrs. Nancy Crawford (familiarly called Grandma) celebrated the 82nd anniversary of her birthday at the residence of her son-in-law, Capt. W. Honshell, in this place. Those presents were three widowed sisters aged 80, 77, and 69, four daughters, a son, and a great-great son. Thus, there were representatives of four generations seated around a sumptuous feast.
The subject of this sketch is the daughter of George Kouns, who owned a large farm one mile above Burlington, Ohio, at which place he lived until his death. In this Ohio home, he reared a large family consisting of ten daughters and one son, and here it was that Grandma Crawford spent her childhood.
She was married to James Crawford on 10 Feb. 1829. She went to live on a farm where they remained for forty-eight years and raised a family of twelve children, of whom are still living, six being residents of Lawrence County, Ohio, one of Catlettsburg, Ky., one daughter of Columbus, Ohio, and one son of Ashland, Ky. Mr. Crawford died six years ago at the advanced age of eighty-three years.
Such is a brief sketch of a member of a remarkably long-lived family. Mrs. Crawford is a member of one of the most influential families in this section. She is the mother-in-law of Mr. A. D. Patterson, one of the willing conductors on the Scioto Valley Division of the Norfolk & Western.
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