George Madison Crawford was a Cherokee born in the southern United States about 1820. By the mid 1800’s he is in Amherstburg Ontario and is married to a woman named Laura Virginia, who was born in Covington Kentucky. Their daughter Anna Louise Crawford married John H. Alexander, who was the son of a fugitive slave from Kentucky named Thomas Alexander. photo courtesy of Spencer Alexander, Assistant Curator, Buxton National Historic Site & Museum
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