gordongrening wrote:
> Ok, all you census sleuths here is a another missing family for you to
find.
>
> This is what I have found so far using Ancestry.com.
>
> 1900 U.S. census, Alleghany Town****p, Blair County, Pennsylvania,
> enumeration district (ED) 35, sheet 15B, line 51, Robert Crawford.
>
> 1910 U.S. census, Allegheny Town****p, Blair County, Pennsylvania,
> enumeration district (ED) 33, sheet 20B , line 51, Robert A. Crawford.
>
> 1920 U.S. census, NOT FOUND
>
> 1930 U.S. census, Allegheny Town****p, Blair County, Pennsylvania,
> enumeration district (ED) 1, sheet 21B, line 96, Robert Crawford.
>
> I spent an hour going through all 44 images, sheets 1A - 22B, of the
1920
> census for Allegheny Town****p, Blair County, PA and did not find the
family.
>
> The family consists of the following people:
> Head Robert Crawford born 1866 in PA
> Wife Sarah Alice Crawford born 1865 in PA
> Daug Mary R Crawford born 1890 in PA
> Daug Hazel Crawford born 1911 in PA
>
> They had 4 other children who were all married by 1920 and I found their
> records. This is the only census Hazel Crawford would appear on. She
was
> married by 1930.
>
> The family actually lived in Bennington, Allegheny Town****p, Blair
County,
> PA. Bennington was a very small coal town, which no long exists, about
1/2
> mile east of Gallitzin, Cambria County, PA. The county line ran right
> between the two towns. The towns were so close that on many do***ents
and
> newspaper obituaries it was stated such-and-such was born, died, married
in
> Gallitzin when they actually meant Bennington.
>
> I tried searching everyway I could think of: global searches on the
Crawford
> name for Blair county, for Cambria County, for Pennsylvania; soundex
> searches on the same, with no results. I even tried a global search on
all
> Hazel's born 1911 in PA with no results.
>
> Good luck.
So far --
I found no R Crawford, no R A Crawford, no Robert Crawford
and no Robert A Crawford in Blair any county bordering Blair
(6 in all). I searched for Robert, 51-60, any surname in PA
and saw nothing that couldhavebeen Crawford in any of those
6 counties.
I note in 1910, Sarah Alice is listed as Alice S and there's
a Margaret in the household.
The 1910 census at HeritageQuest shows the following names
on Sheet 20 A & B
Williams, Thomas O
Murphy, Mathew (67 in 1910)
Sabol, Joseph
Cluslock, Joseph
Sabol, George
Slovik, Lawrence
Jasisko, Michael
Hupits, Joseph
CRAWFORD, op cit
Closson, John B
Closson, David (66 in 1910)
Closson, Philip
Vaughn, Benjamin
Lilly, Edward
Raspiel, John
Johnson, Joseph
Of that list, Murphy and Closson-2 wouldn't be expected to
reappear in 1920; of the others, I got possible hits on
Lilly, Johnson and G Sabol in 1920, anywhere in Pa.
I don't /think/ the enumerators worked from pre-printed
lists in 1920, so if this little settlement is on the county
line, it could have been missed by both enumerators.
Hope someone else has better luck!
Cheryl
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