crawford family tree Web Site

 My name is Tracy Crawford and I started this site.This site was created using MyHeritage.com. This is a great system that allows anyone like you and me to create a private site for their family, build their family tree and share family photos. This site is dedicated to all my ancestors who lived and died and struggled through hard times to raise children in a world without the comforts we take for granted! Here's some history on the Crawford family name: Ronald Crawford was the brother of Margaret, the mother of William Wallace. He risked his life and the lives of his family to provide protection from the English to his nephew. After six years of running interference for his nephew as the situation spun out of control incident after incident, Sir Ronald paid with his life, being the first Lord of the Scottish Council of Barons to be killed by agents of King Edward at theBarns of Ayr in June 1297. Most of my father' ancestors come from Clay Co. Kentucky  Clay County, the forty-seventh county in order of formation, is located in the foothills of the Cumberland Mountains of southeast Kentucky. Created from Madison, Floyd and Knox counties on April 1, 1807, Clay County later ceded much of its land to form parts of Jackson, Owsley, Leslie, Lee, Breathitt, Knott, Perry, and Harlan counties. It reached its present size, 471 square miles, in 1880. It was named for Gen. Green Clay, a Madison County legislator and early Kentucky surveyor. Most of the heavily wooded county, approximately 61,000 acres, falls within the Redbird Purchase Unit of the Daniel Boone National Forest. Tobacco, timber, corn, and hay, are harvested. The county seat is MANCHESTER. There was a courthouse fire there On Jan. 20, 1936.