Garrard County Names

Do you use a list of FAN (Friends, Acquaintances, Neighbors) club names when researching county records for your family? If so, do you ever struggle with remembering how the members of your FAN club fit together? If so, you are not alone.

As I'm getting back into my CRAWFORD research and Garrard County, Kentucky records by reading an order book, I've found that I not only need a list of names, but a diagram of how they might fit together. Since I don't own any software to easily create such a diagram, I used Microsoft Publisher and multiple text boxes to create my diagram of the CRAWFORD families in early Garrard County, Kentucky along with some associated families.

In the early tax records for the area, I have identified four CRAWFORD families with land in what becomes Garrard County: Rebekah Crawford, William Crawford, James Crawford and Mary Crawford. Based on research of these four families, their spouses and potential children, I have been able to identify contemporaries who had ties to these families. This is the generation that settled the region.

• Absalom Adams (father of Feathergill Agams)
• Feathergill Adams
• Isaac Anderson
• James Anderson
• John Anderson (father of Rebecca Anderson)
• Rebecca Anderson
• Samuel Anderson
• Samuel Campbell
• James Crawford
• John Crawford
• William Crawford
• George Douglas(s)
• Rebekah Douglas(s)
• John Gass
• John Kennedy (brother of Thomas Kennedy)
• Bazeleel Maxwell
• John McElwee
• Jacob Miller
• William Morrison
• Nathan Sellers

Since many of the potential children of the four CRAWFORD families were married in early Kentcuky, I can add their spouses to my list. This is the generation that mostly moved away from the Garrard County area.

• John Crafton
• Robert Creath
• Elizabeth Davis
• Alexander Duggins
• William Guthrie
• David Hall
• Martha Knight
• Nancy Miller (daughter of Jacob Miller)
• James Sellers (son of Nathan Sellers)
• William Sellers (son of Nathan Sellers)
• Sally Smith
• Abigail Trowbridge
• Beverly Vawter
• Lucy Vawter

As I read the court order book, I will be looking for any mention of the following surnames:

• Adams
• Anderson
• Campbell
• Crafton
• Crawford
• Creath
• Davis
• Douglas(s)
• Duggins
• Gass
• Guthrie
• Hall
• Kennedy
• Knight
• Maxwell
• McElwee
• Miller
• Morrison
• Sellers
• Smith
• Trowbridge
• Vawter

Hopefully, these court records will help me learn more about these Crawford families and their migration to Kentucky.