Jesse G. Crawford was born in Overton Co., Tenn., May 6, 1810. He received a common school education there and emigrated to Illinois in 1829, settling in Macoupin Co., in 1830 he came to Jacksonville, where he remained three and a half years, then came to Griggsville in 1833. At that time there was no town there. A log house stood near where the center of Quincy Avenue now is. It still stands just back of the postoffice, but is weather-boarded, and is owned by J.R. Stanford’s heirs. Mr. C. erected the first two-story frame house on the Griggsville prairie in 1833, for Amos Blood. He was married in the fall of 1833 to Jane Avery, daughter of Nicholas Avery, an early settler in Pike Co. They had 4 children, - only one living, James. Mrs. Crawford died in 1847. Mr. Crawford again married, this time Maria J. Houts. They have 3 children, - Abbie M., now Mrs. A.H. Butler; Clara E., now Mrs. Henry Hatch; and George B.

History of Pike County Pg. 531 contributed by Carolyn Conner Puskas