The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1869-03-03
From the Bucyrus Forum,
The Burning Of Wm. Crawford
BY JOHN II. cLYMER.

The tragic fate of this distinguished
man has special interest to the people
of our county, which bears his name.
Believing that we cannot perform a
kinder service, we will present to our
readers this week fall and complete
account of the Campaign of 1882,
and its disastrous result, and ending
with one of the most barbarous and
cruel murders of which history gives
information. -r..
William Crawford was the play
mate of George Washington, ''the
Father of his Country" as will be
seen from the following animated ex-
tract from "NV GEMS :"
"When in Frederick, which at that
time was very large, continuing the
counties now called Berkley, Jeffer-
son, and Shenandoah, WashingtoI i
boarded in the house of. the widow
Stevenson, generally pronounced
Stinson. This lady had seven sons
William and Valentine Crawford, by
her first husband: and John, Hugh,
Dick, Jim, and Mark Stinscn, by her
last husband. These seven young
men. of Herculean size and strength,
were equal, perhaps, to any seven
sons of any one mother in Christen-
dom. This was a family exactly to
Georges mind, because promising him
an abundance of that manly exercise
in which he delighted. In front OF
the house lay fine extended green,
with a square of several hundred
yards. Here it was, every e'enlng,
when his daily tolls of surveying were
ended, that George, like ayoung Greek
training for the Olympic games, used
to turn out with his sturdy young
companions, "to see," as they termed
it, (which was the best man, and run
ming, jumping and wrestling. And
so keen was their passion for these
sports, and SO great their ambition to
excel each other, that they would OF
ten persist, on moonshiny nights. till
bed time. The Crawfords and Stin-
sons, though not taller than George,
were much heavier men; so that at
wrestling, and particularly at the close
of Indian hug, he seldom gained much
matter of triumph. But in all trials
of agility, they stood no chance with
him.
"When George, twenty-five years
after this, was called tolead the Amer
lean armies, he did not forget his old
friends, the Stinsons and Craw fords,
but gave commissions to all of them
who choose to join his army, which
several of them did. William CraW-
ford, the eldest of them, and as brave
a man as ever shouldered musket
was advanced as high as the rank of
Colonel, when he was burnt to death
by the Indians at Sandusky.'
A destructive war having been
waged against the Moravian Indians,
in the territory of Ohio, in which
many innocent friendly Indians, men,
women, and children, were inhumanly
put to death, a spirit of retaliation
was very naturally engendered and
ruin and devastation were visited up
on all the frontier. ,. ~. 49,.
Preparations were then made for a
new campaign, which was to be con-
Quoted with secresy and dispatch,
! The little army, mustered at the Min
go Towns on the western side, Of. the
Ohio, on the 25th of May, 1882, con
sisted of ,4So men, mounted on hor-
ses. They were all volunteers from
the immediate neighborhood of Ohio,
except one company from Ten Mile
in Washington county, Pennsy lyania.
At the election for officers, William