Sarah
(Minerd) Crawford
(1870-1943)
Sarah
E. (Minerd) Crawford was born on Aug. 29, 1870 in or near Uniontown, Fayette County, PA, the daughter of
William and Sara Elizabeth (Whoolery) Minerd.
On March 2, 1890, at the home of her parents near Uniontown, PA, Sarah married Richard M. "Dick" Crawford (1868-1929). She was 19, and he was 22. The marriage license, signed by her father, shows he gave "full and free consent to the marriage…."
News of their wedding was carried in the local newspaper, The Uniontown Genius of Liberty.
Sarah and Dick lived in Uniontown, and had two sons -- Howard E. Crawford and James W. Crawford and Mrs. J.W. Price.
Uniontown's Morgantown Street is seen here in a
rare old photographic postcard image, of the Crawfords' era, postmarked 1907.
Note the horse-drawn buggies on the street.
Dick was "one of the city's oldest and best known employees," reported the Uniontown Morning Herald. "For many years 'Dick,' as he was best known to scores of citizens, was connected with the city department of public highways. He has resided for several years at 23 Grant Street."
In the fall of 1929, Dick suffered from appendicitis. He was admitted to the Uniontown Hospital for surgery, but when an abscess was found, having causes gangrene, the operation was delayed. Sadly, he died on Nov. 21, 1929, at age 61. He was laid to rest at Oak Grove Cemetery in Uniontown. At the time, he was survived by eight grandchildren.
In her later years, Sarah resided at 27 South Mt. Vernon Avenue in Uniontown. She was a member of the First Brethren Church.
Sarah
outlived her husband by 14 years. She passed away at the age of 72 on March 25,
1943. After a funeral at the home, conducted by Dr. Francis E. Kearns of the
Asbury Methodist Church, she was buried beside her husband at Oak Grove. Her
obituary was published in the Uniontown Morning Herald. Interestingly,
the funeral arrangements were not handled by the Edward
E. Minerd Funeral Home of Uniontown, founded by Sarah's cousin, but rather
by the A.D. Ferguson Funeral Home.
At the time of her death, Sarah was survived by 11 grandchildren.
Nothing else is known about their lives.
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