. Fifty years in China : an eventful memoir of Tarleton Perry Crawford, ast ofPilot Knob, which is an interesting landmark. The newcomer, the fourth son of his parents, wasnot immediately given a name, but, after the lapse ofseveral years, was allowed to select one for father had purchased a new family Bible and wasabout to fill the records. When he came to the fourthson he said to the mother, What is his name?What shall he be called? The mother brought himin from his play and asked him. He promptly replied,My name is Tarleton Perry, and so it was recorded. John Crawford, his
. Fifty years in China : an eventful memoir of Tarleton Perry Crawford, ast ofPilot Knob, which is an interesting landmark. The newcomer, the fourth son of his parents, wasnot immediately given a name, but, after the lapse ofseveral years, was allowed to select one for father had purchased a new family Bible and wasabout to fill the records. When he came to the fourthson he said to the mother, What is his name?What shall he be called? The mother brought himin from his play and asked him. He promptly replied,My name is Tarleton Perry, and so it was recorded. John Crawford, his father, was an industrious andthrifty farmer. According to the standard of that dayhe had a moderately good, common school was for many years clerk of the Baptist Churchof which he was a member. He was a descendantof the Scotch Crawford family, which settled at anearly day in southern Virginia and northern NorthCarolina. His wife, Lucretia Kemble Crawford, wasof Philadelphia Quaker parentage, and was educatedpartly in the Moravian school of Salem, North Caro-. GRAVE OF DR. CRAWFORDS MOTHER, AT SINKING SPRINGS CHURCH
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