A History of the Family of Marshall and
Rebecca [Sinclair] Crawford
by
The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 resulted in a giant
wave of American migration westward. In the 1820s and 1830s, Native American
Indians were also moved, by the government, from their homelands in the south
eastern United States into northwestern Arkansas and the Indian Territory of
what is now Oklahoma.
These were times of rapid change, conflict and violence on the frontier
as America grew westward. Competition for land created conflicts between
white settlers, newly arrived Indians, and the tribes that had called this
land home for centuries. This is the story of a family whose members were
an integral part of this piece of American history.
Kentuckian Marshall Crawford and Tennessean Rebecca Sinclair were among those
southern immigrants. They married young, in the Arkansas Territory, during its
turbulent 1820s, and then moved their family to Texas in 1843. They and their
children helped settle the Texas frontier. Their children and their children's
descendants spread throughout Texas, and in some cases beyond its boundaries.
This History of the Family of Marshall and Rebecca [Sinclair] Crawford
helps explain the history of the settlement of this region of America,
from the perspective of one family's experiences.
Don and Melinda have collaborated on this historical account of Marshall
Crawford family, with the hope that it will be of benefit to Marshall and
Rebecca's descendants and others interested in the Marshall Crawford story.
The book is now available through
Virtualbookworm Publishing, Inc., and at other booksellers, such as
<www.amazon.com> and
Barnes & Noble.