Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Crawford, Charles P.
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Description area
Dates of existence
1826-1900
History
Charles P. Crawford, lawyer, Confederate officer; son of Joel Crawford. Charles P. Crawford served in the Confederate Army and entered the service of the State of Georgia on July 6, 1861, in Company A Battalion 11 as a fourth sergeant. He was promoted to the rank of Captain of Company B Battalion 11 on April 16, 1862.
On January 8, 1855, Crawford married his first wife, Martha "Mattie" Williamson, the daughter of Capt. W. T. Williamson of Milledgeville. She was born at McIntosh Reserve, Coweta County, GA on January 8, 1836. On May 4, 1880, Crawford married again to Anna Ripley Orme, the daughter of Richard M. Orme publisher of the Southern Recorder & Milledgeville Mayor.
Captain Crawford died at his home on Liberty Street in Milledgeville, Georgia, January 1900. According to the news article "Captain Crawford was one of the best-posted lawyers of this section, and leaves a wife, one son and three daughters and hosts of friends all over the state to mourn his death."