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John Calvin Cranford

Male 1785 - 1868  (83 years)


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  • Name John Calvin Cranford  [1, 2
    Birth 1785  North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Residence 1850  District 11, Walker, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Death 12 Feb 1868  Walker, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Burial Cranford Family Cemetery, Walker, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Person ID I17213  tng Genealogy

    Family Elizabeth Wilkes,   b. 1790, Chester, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Mar 1868, Walker, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years) 
    Children 
    +1. Abner Cranford,   b. 22 Apr 1809, Montgomery, North Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Jul 1888, Walker, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +2. Winifred Cranford,   b. 11 Feb 1811, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Nov 1867 (Age 56 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     3. Celia Cranford,   b. 1812, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1890, Winston, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     4. Mary Elizabeth Cranford,   b. 1813, Chester, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1895, Morgan, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     5. Martha "Patsy" Cranford,   b. 1815, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1911, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 96 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     6. William Cranford,   b. 18 Feb 1818, Morgan, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 3 Aug 1885, Covington, Mississippi, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     7. Charlotte Cranford,   b. 1819   d. 1904 (Age 85 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     8. Thomas Mathew Cranford,   b. 1820, Chester, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Mar 1866, Mount Ida, Montgomery, Arkansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 46 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     9. John Monroe Cranford,   b. 1824, Morgan, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +10. Malinda Cranford,   b. 18 Apr 1825   d. 27 Jul 1887, Walker, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    +11. Minerva Cranford,   b. 13 Jun 1827, Morgan, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Feb 1926, Corsicana, Navarro, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 98 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     12. Nancy Emily Cranford,   b. 27 Oct 1827, Walker, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Sep 1919, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 91 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     13. Lydia Ann Dorcus Cranford,   b. 18 Aug 1831, Morgan, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Mar 1914, Summersville, Texas, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
     14. Chesley Hardy Cranford,   b. 5 Feb 1833, Falkville, Morgan, Alabama Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 May 1911, Walker, Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F4924  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1785 - North Carolina, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 12 Feb 1868 - Walker, Alabama, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Headstones
    John and Elizabeth Wilkes Cranford gravestone
    John and Elizabeth Wilkes Cranford gravestone

  • Notes 
    • John Calvin Cranford's Life.
      Added by GeorgeSpeed13 on 23 Apr 2007

      John Calvin Cranford was born in No. Car. in 1785. He was a veteran of the war of 1812 and was at the Battle of New Orleans, as per family legend. He enlisted as a private in Colonel Means First Regiment of So. Car. Militia on Oct. 14,1814 and was discharged at Charleston, So. Car. on Mar. 17, 1815. Johns brother, Josiah was in the same regiment, and had the same service as John. Their pay was $8.00 per Month. They gave two rations each valued at eighteen cents for travel from Charleston to their homes. After Elizabeth Wilks & John were married they lived in No. Car. a short time and then moved to Chester Co. So. Car. untill about 1822, and then moved to Morgan Co. Ala. They settled and farmed near Falkville until 1838, and then moved to Walker Co. Ala. where they lived and farmed the remainder of their lives. He died on his farm in Walker Co. and was buried beside his wife in the old Cranford graveyard at the foot of Cranford Hill, one mile north of New Hope Church,in Walker Co. Ala.

  • Sources 
    1. [S318] Ivan Ernest Bass, Wilkes Family History and Genealogy: Thomas Wilkes (ca. 1735-1809) and His Descendants, (Name: 1965;), Pages 52-53.

    2. [S360] Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census, (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;).
      1850 United States Federal Census Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: NARA, 1850.M432, 1,009 rolls. District 11, Walker, Alabama, roll M432_16, page 290, image 300.
      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=16826361&indiv=try
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      http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=16826361&indiv=try

    3. [S122] FindaGrave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5599476
      http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5599476.
      http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=5599476

    4. [S142] Gravestone.
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