INFORMATION TAKEN FROM 1900 CENSUS RECORDS
1900 Howard County, MD, Census Records, E.D. 81, Sheet No. 14, Line #74.
LOUISE (my paternal Great-great-great Grandmother) was a slave
who came from Virginia to Howard County, Maryland. She had a
son, GEORGE WASHINGTON CRAWFORD (my Great-great-Grandfather)
who was born in Howard County in March 1860, and a daughter
named IDA. According to my Great-Grandmother Rose Ella
(Crawford) Howard Clark, it has been a long time family rumor
that George was the son of the white plantation owner who
owned Louise. (There was a white man named George Crawford
who had slaves in Howard County. There is no way of
telling whether Louise was one of them since only numbers
were used to identify slaves on the 1860 Census.
Louise's son George is listed as black on the June 22, 1900
Census. He was 40 and listed as a Farm Laborer. In 1880 he
married ROSE ELLA CLIFFORD (my Great-great Grandmother), born
January 1864 also in Howard County, Maryland. Rose was
going on 36 at the time of this census. They were renting
their house in Howard County, Maryland. Both their parents
were born in Maryland. They had nine children by the 1990
Census (all living). According to the census, neither could
read or write. They had a total of thirteen children, all
born in Howard County (3 miles from Ellicott City, Maryland).
The Children on the census record:
- Charles Henry “Charley” (the oldest, Born ________)
married Rachel __________ (she died 2/3/1957). Their children:
(1) Perry (had Robert, Haskins, and Helen. Perry has a
grandson named Mallory Crawford);
(2) Sadie (Crawford) Brown (had Dorthy Young);
(3) Agnes (Crawford) Carter (had Sylvia “Betty” Carter); and
(4) Charles, Jr.
(Sylvia Carter’s daughter is Wanda. Wanda’s daughter is Anais
(B: 4/11/1995), Wanda had another daughter, Paloma, who was
born 7/11/1990. She died at age ___, on ________.)
- George, Jr. (born September 1880)
- Louberta* (Bertha (Crawford) Lewis (born August 1884).
She lived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- ROSE ELLA ("ROSIE") my Great-Grandmother, was born
July 22, 1886; she died October 17, 1975. She married
SOLOMON HOWARD (my Great-Grandfather), whom she called Saul,
was born July 1884. They had:
(1) William
(2) James
(3) Frank
(Later, after Saul’s death, she married Raymond Clark. They had
no children).
- Hestella (born September 1888)
- Willie (born November 1891)
- Lilly (Lillian (Crawford) Carter),born January 1894, married
Samuel Carter. They had:
(1) Samuel, Jr. (he had four children)
(2) William (had five children)
(3) Howard (had six children)
(4) Melvin (had five children)
(5) Frank (had five children)
(6) Dorthy;
(7) Marie
(8) Lillian
(9) Gladys
- LENA (Allena (Crawford) Bacon) Aunt Lena was the source of a
lot of the personal information on her parents and her
sister, my Great-Grandmother, Rosie). She was born May 11,
1896; she died June 13, 1993 at age 97). She married Remus
Bacon. Their children:
(1) Hilda (Bacon) Nelson
(See “Hilda Bacon Nelson’s Decendents” listed below.)
(2) Alice; and
(3) Charlotte
- Eldridge (born July 1899)
The remainder of George and Rose Ella's children were not yet
born. Therefore, they were not listed on the 1900 Census:
- Cathrine (Crawford) Hutchinson
- Morris Lee had
(1) Catherine (Crawford) Garror (had 3 children);
(2) Lovell (had 3 children);
(3) Morris, Jr. (had 5 children).
- Jerome
- Lawrence (the youngest)
I first met Aunts Catherine and Lena at my Great-grandmother
Rosie's funeral. Rosie was a very feisty lady and very
loving to me. She died October 17, 1975 at 89.
The following is information graciously given to me by Aunt Lena
(Allena Crawford Bacon) of her parents. My descriptions of
her parents are from photographs she shared with me:
GEORGE WASHINGTON CRAWFORD (my Great-great Grandfather) was a
physically and well as mentally strong man who insisted on
raising all of his own children without passing them around
to others as some with large families sometimes did during
those times. He, his wife ROSELLA (CLIFFORD), and the
children lived on a farm 3 miles from Ellicott City, Maryland
in Howard County. They moved to a farm in Catonsville,
Maryland sometime around 1902 (per Aunt Lena, she was 8).
From a photograph Aunt Lena showed me, George had gray hair which
had receded to the top of his head (with him facing straight
ahead, you could see the hairline at the top). He had a
darker mustache which tapered downward. He was brown-skinned
and had very large hands. Rose was light-skinned. She had
brown hair which she wore puffed on the sides and top and
pulled to the back. She had rounded shoulders and a full
waist and bossom. Her face looked kind, but tired. They
both had thin noses and small lips (like Aunt Lena and
Great-Grandmother Rosie).
According to Aunt Lena, her father George was killed on a Monday
in a rock quarry where he worked. A man from his job came to
the house and informed Rosie and Lena that their father was
seriously injured in the quarry and was being rushed to the
hospital. When they arrived at Franklin Square Hospital,
George had been pronounced dead on arrival. His age at his
death is unknown. His youngest son, Lawrence, was sixteen.
Aunt Lena said that he hated hospitals and would not have
wanted to be in one.
My Great-great Grandmother, Rose Ella lived to the age of 72.
She died around 1936 of heart trouble. Her death occurred
after George's.
Their oldest son, Charles Crawford, fought in the
Spanish-American War. He came home around 1898 (when Aunt
Lena was two). His daughter, Agnes Crawford Carter, her
daughter, Sylvia “Betty” E. Carter, and Sylvia's daughter, Wanda,
all ran the Carter Bus Service in Ellicott City, Maryland.
There was an article on Sylvia in the Howard County Sun
newspaper, Sunday, November 15, 1987. The caption read:
"Carter Pioneers Rotary Club." Agnes and Wanda were also
mentioned.
George Jr., Lawrence and Morris Lee are known to have lived and
died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and at least one sister
(Catherine I think).
Saul died before 1931 in Ellicott City, Maryland, while still
married to Rosie.
Per Aunt Lena, she had three girls and had wanted boys; Rosie had three boys and had wanted girls. Rosie was a small lady; short and slim (Aunt Lena was the same).
I started getting to know her well in 1961 when I was 11
years old. My father, Frank, Jr., told me he wanted me to
meet someone very special. He said we were going to surprise
her. She had a small apartment across from Lafayette Square
in Baltimore, Maryland. We hit it off right from the start.
She told me many stories which, regrettably, I have long
since forgotten. She was already a widow for the second time
by the time I met her in 1961 at age 75.
Rosie had pierced ears which were split by the time I met her. I
think she told me that they got that way from a fight with a
girl who had pulled her earrings out of her ears. I loved
her dearly from that first day and visited her almost every
day thereafter, until we moved to Washington, DC in June
1962. She always had some kind of sweet for me.
After that, I visited her whenever I could when I got old enough
to travel back to Baltimore on my own. The last time I saw
her she was in the hospital and in her mid eighties. This
was when she gave me a wealth of information on her family
(this time I had pen and paper so I wouldn’t forget what she
told me later). I was so caught up in everything she was
telling me, that I forgot to ask her anything about my
Great-Grandfather Solomon Howard, her husban, whom she always
refer to as Saul. Everything she told me then was accurate
to the letter.
Rosie always called my father Frank (her grandson), Sunny Boy,
which he loved. And her eyes sparkled whenever she smiled
and whenever she saw her Sunny Boy.
Rosie outlived two of her sons, William and James (who never had
children), and her two grandchildren by her son Frank and his
first wife Edith (my Grandmother)--Dolores and my father,
Frank (Sunny Boy). Rosie attended both her grandchildren’s
funerals. Sunny Boy’s was in 1974.
Rosie died the widow of Raymond Clark, on October 17, 1975 in
Harbor View Nursing Home, 1213 South Light St., Baltimore,
Maryland. She moved there after living with her son, Frank
and his second wife, Ruth Watson. Rosie’s son, Frank, died
in April, 1989 in Baltimore, MD.
"Hilda Bacon Nelson’s Decendents"
Hilda Bacon and Jesus “Jesse” Conecko Garcia (Granddaddy Jesse) Their son: Roberto “Robert” Garcia
The Children of Roberto Garcia and Aura Santiago
· Alisa Milagrosa Garcia “Lisa” Lisa’s daughter: _____________ · Cesario Jesus Garcia “Ceasar” · Raul Carlos Garcia “Speedy” · Anibal Roberto Garcia “Robert” Robert’s son: Elijah Garcia · Reuben Michael Garcia “Fugi”
Aura’s Children: · Nelson David Jackson · Michele Merrero Jackson