James Harvey Crawford (1865-1939)

CRAWFORD, KIRKENDALL, HASS, BROWN, HARRIS, WHEATLEY, SYLVIS, EKLE

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:13

From Nevada Evening Journal December 11, 1939 (page 1)

J. H. Crawford Dies at Home Near Gilbert Sunday

J H. Crawford, 74, native son and lifelong resident of Story county, died at his home southwest of Gilbert, Sunday afternoon, after an illness that had covered a period of several months. Mr. Crawford had suffered from a growth on his leg from which he had been taking treatments, but within the past few days pneumonia developed and it was this that claimed his life.

James Harvey Crawford, a son of Seneca Allen Crawford and Elizabeth Kirkendall Crawford, was born on a farm two miles east of Nevada July 14, 1865 shortly after the family had arrived here from Ohio. They came to Nevada, which was at that time the western terminal of the railroad.

Harvey grew to young manhood on a farm between Cambridge and Nevada and had lived in Story county his entire life with the exception of part of one year spent in South Dakota.

He was married April 9, 1891 to Elizabeth Hass and to them was born one son, Ray. Their entire married life was spent in the vicinity of Gilbert.

Mr. Crawford passed away at his farm home on Sunday, Dec. 10, 1939. He leaves his wife, his son and daughter-in-law, his granddaughter and grandson in law, Mr. and Mrs. James T. Brown and grandson Burnis, two brothers, Allen of Fairview and John of Canova, S. D., four sisters, Mrs. Rose Harris of St. Lawrence, S.D., Mrs. Carrie Wheatley of Long Beach, Cal., and Bertha Sylvis and Minnie Ekle of Madison, S.D.

Funeral and burial will be Tuesday afternoon, with prayer at home at 1:30, funeral service at Adams funeral chapel, Ames, at 2:30 and burial in the cemetery at Gilbert.