A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Alexander Bell Crawford IV
Notes from WFT 92 #843:
Facts about this person:
Cemetery
Fairview Cemetery, Liberty, Clay County, Missouri
From WFT 52 #944:
A. B. Crawford, one of Liberty's outstanding men and most active workers in civic affairs, died early Wednesday morning at St. Margaret's Hospital in Kansas City where he had un gone an emergency operation for appendicitis Monday night after being stricken at his home earlier in the day. Peritonitis was the cause of death.
At the time of his death, Mr. Crawford was president of the First National Bank, president of the Liberty Board of Education, treasurer of the Methodist Church and member of it board of stewards, treasurer of the Rotary Club and member of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce.
Born in Liberty on January 7, 1891, the son of A. B. Crawford of Carlyle, Ky., and the former Miss Sarah Christy of Clay County, Mr. Crawford spent almost his entire life here. He was away for a few years as a young man when he was employed by the Fidelity State Bank in Kansas City, Kansas.
Connections with the First National Bank here began for the man, who later became its head, on December 1, 1927. It was on August 3, 1933 that he was elected President at the death of John Majors. Prior to his banking days and after his graduation from the schools of Liberty, Mr. Crawford had worked for a time in the J. J. Stogdale Clothing company store.
It was at the age of twelve that Mr. Crawford united with the Methodist church. For several years he was superintendent of the Sunday school there and was one of the leading members at the time of his death.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Jeanette Crawford; two daughters, Mrs. Frank J. Chrane and Miss Louise Crawford and a grandson, Frank J Chrane, Jr., all at home, and a brother, Wiley Clyde Crawford, Liberty, special representative in charge of the HOLC office in Kansas City.
Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon from the Methodist church. Burial will be in the Fairview Cemetery. (Librerty Tribune 9/9/1943)
There was a proclamation by the Mayor of Liberty proclaiming all business places in Liberty to be closed the hour of the funeral to pay respects to his memory.
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