Person:Sarah Crawford (19)

According to 'Genealogy from the Heartland', Sarah was the daughter of James Crawford and Martha Knight. James emigrated to Preble Co, Ohio by 1820 and to Warren Co., Indiana by 1830. {Genealogy from the Heartland web site, 18 Oct 2003, <http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3208/tmgweb/web-p/p1.htm#i11>}

 "David Shankland [was] one of the pioneers of this county. Born in Nicholas County, Kentucky, April 9, 1795, a son of John Shankland, who had located in that state soon after the Revolutionary War, he left home at twenty years of age and dwelt for a few years in Ohio. He was married in Preble County, that state, September 27, 1817, to Sally Crawford, whose brother William was a pioneer of Warren County. In October 1829, David Shankland, wife and six children arrived in this county and took up their abode upon government land in Pike township. There the father cleared a fine farm and resided until his death, June 11, 1872, the result of an accident, he having been thrown from his wagon. His wife, who was in the wagon, also, was badly injured, but recovered, she died April 16, 1875...Three of the six children who accompanied him to this state survived: [Eliza, Mrs. P.G.] Smith; David, now of the state of Oregon; Mrs. Sarah Byers, of Steuben Township, Warren County." {'P.G. Smith', Biographical History of Tippecanoe, White, Jasper, Newton, Benton, Warren & Pulaski Counties, Lewis Pub. Co.; 1899, in personal email}