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From: "Linda Murray" <>
Subject: Re: [CRAWFORD] Attention Dick DuVal
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:24:04 -0500
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Dick DuVal:
I am not able to reply to you directly at the email address I have for you
().
Would you please contact me with one which will accept my response to your
request, or advise me if it is okay to send to the list.
Thanks,
Linda
Linda in Georgia
Genealogy is my ONLY business.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Virgil L. "Dick" DuVal" <>
To: "Linda Murray" <>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: [CRAWFORD] Searching and Searching
> Hi Linda, You seem to be knowledgeable about CRAWFORDS in the time frame
and
> area in which I am desperately searching for my Grandmother. James
> R.(ichard) WILLS married Mattie A. CRAWFORD b. Feb 1883 in TX on 29 Jul
1898
> in Marquez, Leon Co., TX. In 1900 they were farming in Houston Co., TX
with
> no Children. My Mother Mattie Alice WILLS was born 14 April 1902 (?) we
> think in TX also very possibly in LA. Mattie A. CRAWFORD/WILLS died in
> childbirth. James R. WILLS took his baby daughter and his wife's body by
> train to Marquez and gave his daughter to his Father, William Thomas
WILLS,
> to raise. He left and did not return until after his death four years
later.
> In his Obituary was stated that he was of Late from New Iberia, LA where
his
> brother lived so I suspect that it might have been there that he took his
> wife when she was pregnant and where I suspect my Mother actually was born
> rather than where she always said she was born in TX. The only other clue
> that I have to Mattie A. CRAWFORD'S family is that My Mother said that she
> received a letter from a Henry CRAWFORD about the time I was born in 1920
or
> 21. He said that he was her Uncle and told her some other things but My
> Mother burned the letter and never followed up on what he had told her. I
> did check in Leon Co., records and found that a Henry CRAWFORD 16 was
> declared a Ward of the Court in January of 1899. But nowhere was I able to
> find any record of his Parents other than the fact that they were
apparently
> dead. Henry was not with the family he was assigned to in the 1900 Census
> of Leon Co. So that is the story of my blind search for my Grandmother.
Does
> any of this ring a bell with you. I would certainly appreciate any hint
that
> you might have of where else to look. Hopefully,
> Dick
>
>
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