A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Harrisburg February 14, 1865, mustered into federal service there February 21 as a private with Co. H in the one-year organization of the 192nd Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company August 24, 1865.
Military service is the thing about Beneville W. Crawford that is clearly known. The rest is confusion.
Per his death certificate, he was the son of Beneville W. & Anna (Williams) Crawford and was a shoemaker by trade. The 1850 census lists a three-year-old Beneville Crawford living in Lower Mahantongo Township, Schuylkill County, but the heads of household are Elias & Emma Crawford. However, Elias is only twenty-six years old and the oldest child is nine. Beneville is not found in the 1860 census.
He appears to have married Margaret Painter and fathered Marian B. (b. 1871), Laura (b. @1873), Valentine (b. 03/??/75), Bertrand Oscar (b. 11/21/77), Amy (b. 12/??/77 - married Harvey W. Mumma), Mrs. J. E. Hoffnagle (b. ?), and Claud (b. 03/??/85). Some of the children are verified in his obituary but not all. There are indications that some of them were born either in Indiana or Illinois, although no census entry for the family was found in those states. The 1880 census for Harrisburg lists several of the children living with shoemaker Peter W. (b. ca. 1846) & Margaret Crawford. It is hard to conceive how "Beneville" morphed into "Peter," but it appears that is what happened.
To further confuse matters, the April 26, 1915, edition of the Harrisburg Telegraph prints an obituary for a Benjamin M. Crawford, age seventy-seven, i.e., an 1838 birth year. We know it's Beneville because the obit relates his Civil War experience with Co. H, 192nd Pennsylvania Infantry, and Beneville was the only Crawford in Co. H of either organization of the 192nd Pennsylvania Infantry. The Harrisburg Daily Independent on the same day repeats the "Benjamin" obituary but correctly reports that he died at age sixty-seven.
Any Crawfords out there who know what's going on with old Beneville and his kin?
Military service is the thing about Beneville W. Crawford that is clearly known. The rest is confusion.
Per his death certificate, he was the son of Beneville W. & Anna (Williams) Crawford and was a shoemaker by trade. The 1850 census lists a three-year-old Beneville Crawford living in Lower Mahantongo Township, Schuylkill County, but the heads of household are Elias & Emma Crawford. However, Elias is only twenty-six years old and the oldest child is nine. Beneville is not found in the 1860 census.
He appears to have married Margaret Painter and fathered Marian B. (b. 1871), Laura (b. @1873), Valentine (b. 03/??/75), Bertrand Oscar (b. 11/21/77), Amy (b. 12/??/77 - married Harvey W. Mumma), Mrs. J. E. Hoffnagle (b. ?), and Claud (b. 03/??/85). Some of the children are verified in his obituary but not all. There are indications that some of them were born either in Indiana or Illinois, although no census entry for the family was found in those states. The 1880 census for Harrisburg lists several of the children living with shoemaker Peter W. (b. ca. 1846) & Margaret Crawford. It is hard to conceive how "Beneville" morphed into "Peter," but it appears that is what happened.
To further confuse matters, the April 26, 1915, edition of the Harrisburg Telegraph prints an obituary for a Benjamin M. Crawford, age seventy-seven, i.e., an 1838 birth year. We know it's Beneville because the obit relates his Civil War experience with Co. H, 192nd Pennsylvania Infantry, and Beneville was the only Crawford in Co. H of either organization of the 192nd Pennsylvania Infantry. The Harrisburg Daily Independent on the same day repeats the "Benjamin" obituary but correctly reports that he died at age sixty-seven.
Any Crawfords out there who know what's going on with old Beneville and his kin?
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Harrisburg February 14, 1865, mustered into federal service there February 21 as a private with Co. H in the one-year organization of the 192nd Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company August 24, 1865.
Military service is the thing about Beneville W. Crawford that is clearly known. The rest is confusion.
Per his death certificate, he was the son of Beneville W. & Anna (Williams) Crawford and was a shoemaker by trade. The 1850 census lists a three-year-old Beneville Crawford living in Lower Mahantongo Township, Schuylkill County, but the heads of household are Elias & Emma Crawford. However, Elias is only twenty-six years old and the oldest child is nine. Beneville is not found in the 1860 census.
He appears to have married Margaret Painter and fathered Marian B. (b. 1871), Laura (b. @1873), Valentine (b. 03/??/75), Bertrand Oscar (b. 11/21/77), Amy (b. 12/??/77 - married Harvey W. Mumma), Mrs. J. E. Hoffnagle (b. ?), and Claud (b. 03/??/85). Some of the children are verified in his obituary but not all. There are indications that some of them were born either in Indiana or Illinois, although no census entry for the family was found in those states. The 1880 census for Harrisburg lists several of the children living with shoemaker Peter W. (b. ca. 1846) & Margaret Crawford. It is hard to conceive how "Beneville" morphed into "Peter," but it appears that is what happened.
To further confuse matters, the April 26, 1915, edition of the Harrisburg Telegraph prints an obituary for a Benjamin M. Crawford, age seventy-seven, i.e., an 1838 birth year. We know it's Beneville because the obit relates his Civil War experience with Co. H, 192nd Pennsylvania Infantry, and Beneville was the only Crawford in Co. H of either organization of the 192nd Pennsylvania Infantry. The Harrisburg Daily Independent on the same day repeats the "Benjamin" obituary but correctly reports that he died at age sixty-seven.
Any Crawfords out there who know what's going on with old Beneville and his kin?
Military service is the thing about Beneville W. Crawford that is clearly known. The rest is confusion.
Per his death certificate, he was the son of Beneville W. & Anna (Williams) Crawford and was a shoemaker by trade. The 1850 census lists a three-year-old Beneville Crawford living in Lower Mahantongo Township, Schuylkill County, but the heads of household are Elias & Emma Crawford. However, Elias is only twenty-six years old and the oldest child is nine. Beneville is not found in the 1860 census.
He appears to have married Margaret Painter and fathered Marian B. (b. 1871), Laura (b. @1873), Valentine (b. 03/??/75), Bertrand Oscar (b. 11/21/77), Amy (b. 12/??/77 - married Harvey W. Mumma), Mrs. J. E. Hoffnagle (b. ?), and Claud (b. 03/??/85). Some of the children are verified in his obituary but not all. There are indications that some of them were born either in Indiana or Illinois, although no census entry for the family was found in those states. The 1880 census for Harrisburg lists several of the children living with shoemaker Peter W. (b. ca. 1846) & Margaret Crawford. It is hard to conceive how "Beneville" morphed into "Peter," but it appears that is what happened.
To further confuse matters, the April 26, 1915, edition of the Harrisburg Telegraph prints an obituary for a Benjamin M. Crawford, age seventy-seven, i.e., an 1838 birth year. We know it's Beneville because the obit relates his Civil War experience with Co. H, 192nd Pennsylvania Infantry, and Beneville was the only Crawford in Co. H of either organization of the 192nd Pennsylvania Infantry. The Harrisburg Daily Independent on the same day repeats the "Benjamin" obituary but correctly reports that he died at age sixty-seven.
Any Crawfords out there who know what's going on with old Beneville and his kin?
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