Catherine Crawford

Catherine was born on May 15th, 1779 in Fredrick County, MD. She died at the age of 76 on October 26th, 1855 in Kingsport, Sullivan Co., TN. Her burial was in Old Kingsport Presbyterian Cemetery.¹

General Notes
- Crawford Surname Origin
  Locality. First assumed by the proprietor of the lands and barony of Crawford, in Lanarkshire, Scotland. The extreme ancestor of the ancient family of Crawford, in Scotland, was Reginald, youngest son of Alan, the fourth Earl of Richmond. He seems to have accompanied David the First to the north, and to have received extensive grants of land in Strath Cluyd, or Clydesdale, whence his immediate descendants adopted the name of Crawford, then forming one of the largest baronies in Scotland, and signifying in Gaelic "The pass of blood," from cru, bloody, and ford, a pass or way, as commemorative, probably, of some sanguinary conflict between the Aborigines and the Roman invaders. The name has been derived by others from crodh and port, pronounced cro-fort, signifying "a sheltering place for cattle."