Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1918-01-18
PULLMAN LOSES
EARLIEST PIONEER
,.cob B. Crawford Took Homestead
Three Miles North of Pullman
AZ Years Ago-Died Suddenly
Tuesday

n ubon the hand of death descend
4 !, without warning upon Jacob b.
8 c,owford Tuesday evening it re-
,,ovod Pullman's earliest living pio-
noor a man who held the highest
honor and respect of his friends and
S ocouaintances from the time, in
H,279 when he settled upon home
stead three miles north of Pullm an,
until he was called to his final re-
ward this week. Death came sud
Hdpnlv and without warning or suffer
ing Mr.. Crawford was at work near
Mbis home, loading some trees onto
Mhis wagon to haul them away, when
he suffered a stroke of apOpleXy and
Hsutcumbed almost instantly.
Funeral services were held yester-
8day afternoon from Kimball's chapel.
Tia services were conducted by the
local Masonic lodge, of which Mr.
*Crawford was a charter member,
@NhlIe the Rev Ralph c. Sargent de-
Rihpred the funeral sermon. Inter
>ment was in the |. O, 0. f. cemetery.
4 To state the virtues of Jake"
crawford, as he was known to his
many friends, would be but to enum-
crate all the virtues that it is in the
power OF mankind to possess. Hon
Fcitusly wronged a single soul, TAX
Rng his reverses and successes as they
Fame, ungrudgingly and uncomplain-
Engly. He dealt fairly with all his
heighbors, helping them to get a
Start in the days when neighbOrs
Nere few and far between, sharing
their joys when success came to
Them even though it was in a far
GREATER measure than his own. If
Ryer a man emulated throughout his
fniire life the principles of the Gold
In Rule, that man was Jake" Craw-
Cord, and the sorrow of it all is that
h;Aers less honest, may have taken
advantage of his fairness to add to
Fheir own worldly resources at the
cost of his.
Jacob B. Crawford was born No
ember %. 1910, in Medina county.
Ohio In 1S47 he moved from that
place with his parents to jefferson
county, Wisconsin, and in 1851 went
70 Fayette county, Iowa, where he re-
fIded until the Civil war. He joined
The Northern army as a munitiOl,
wagon driver, serving in that capac-
Ply until the close of the war, when
Pie returned to Iowa. He was united
ln marriage to Mrs. Elizabeth Elem
lng soon after the war. In 1872
Nlr and Mrs. Crawford came to Whit
nan county, locating a homestead
Fhree miles north of Pullman, where
Fhey resided until Mrs. Crawrord's
peath, which occurred in June, 1900.
n 1902 Mr.. Crawford was united in
Marriage to Mrs. Hannah Mathews,
<ho survives him. Deceased also
1eaves a nephew, c. l.. of this city
ana sister, Mrs Anna Hull. Two
pther nephews, c. l.. and Homer
2iul, and niece, Mrs. Clara New
2on' all reside at Colfax. Two broth
ers' Jasper, of Corpus Christi, Texas,
gnu James, of Wadenia, Iowa, and
Al"o sisters, Mrs. Susan Lawrence of
NeOraska, and Mrs. Matilda Hotel
ing OF Coulee City, Wash. also sur
viye
Mr. Crawford was a life mem Der
T. the Masonic order and a charter
iellDer OF the local Masonic lodge.
FOR several years past Mr.. Craw-
'Ord mas made his home in Pullman,
summing in apparent good health
"htii the minute of his demise. He
was the proud possessor of commits
slohs granted to his great-grand-
her' who served as a major under
'eneral Anthony Wayne in the war
1875 and his grandfather, who
"as a major under General Harrison
the Indian campaign.