Mary Crawford Pancake 1795-1880
2010
Mary Crawford was born in Columbiana County, Ohio to Samuel Crawford and Anne Bates. Although we do not know the number or names of any siblings she might have had, we know that she had at least one brother because a child with the last name of Crawford lived in the home she and William shared with their own children. Mary and William Pancake married in 1816 in Columbiana County, Ohio. They settled soon after in nearby Coshocton County, in Jefferson Township near the town of Warsaw. Mary and William became the parents of three children. They were oldest daughter Jane, middle child and direct ancestor Samuel and youngest son William.
Jane married William Thompson and gave birth to two daughters. Jane died relative to the birth of the second daughter in the year of 1840. She was just 24 years of age. Her husband re-married but Jane’s two daughters are often found in the home of their maternal grandparents Mary and William Pancake. Mary’s second child is ancestor Samuel Crawford Pancake. He was born in 1820 and married in 1844. Samuel and his wife Catharine Darling became the parents of thirteen children. Direct ancestor Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous is among them. William also married and became the father of four children. Three daughters lived to adulthood but a son, Oliver, died in 1862 at the age of 20 months.
Later census records show that Mary’s father Samuel Crawford also lived in her home. Mary died in 1880 and is buried at the site of the Mohawk Methodist Church in Warsaw Ohio. While the church is gone, its graveyard is still in use. Her grave is marked with a personal grave stone. Mary and her husband William Pancake were among the founding members of the Church where their bodies rest.