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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNT*. 120 ciJ three terms,' Justice of the Peace two terms. Mr. Crawford has been prominent in the church, being president of the Forty-eighth quorum of Seventies about thirty years and a ward teacher many years. He was married April 0, 1853, to Cecelia, daughter of Nathaniel and Cecelia. Sharp. Their children are Elizabeth J., . John, Jr., deceased, Cecelia, James B., Nathaniel, William \\\, Margaret C, Mary E., Qniney G., Delphia, deceased, and Catherine. In February, 1850, he married a second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Gardner and Sarah (Hastings) Snow. Their children are: Sarah M., Mary, deceased, Martha M., Gardner J., George, deceased, Charles C, Ida, deceased, Adelbert I)., Nora A., Frank, Grace and Rayneld, deceased. may truly be said of Mi'. Crawford he has made a having no capital to start with, he had nothing but his individual effort to depend on. By steady It success of life, hard work and honorable means he has accumulated a fair stock of this world's goods and has always retained the respect and good will of his neighbors. /QKAWFORD, WILLIAM G., is one of the leading woolgroweis of Manti. He is a son of James Crawford and Catherine (Thompson) Crawford, and was born just north of Salt Lake City, December 2*1, 1854. When he was three years of age the family moved to Manti and shortly after to Moroni, where they were among the first settlers, and resided there eight years, when they removed to Monroe, Sevier county, which was then just being settled. In 1805 they again took up their residence in Manti, where they have since lived. Our subject followed various occupations in Idaho and Salt Lake City, where he attended the Deseret University a few months. He then returned to Manti and concluded to go into the stock business. He secured a small herd of about 05 head, but the following winter being a very severe one, he lost about one-half of them. This rather discouraged him in the stock business, so he bought a small band of sheep and took a few more on shares, and by dint of hard work and close attention to \ |
