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John F. CROFFORD

Male 1869 - 1935  (65 years)


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  • Name John F. CROFFORD 
    Birth 5 Sep 1869  Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    Gender Male 
    Census 3 Jan 1920  Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    • 2229 Liberty Ave.
    Census 14 Apr 1930  Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    • 2435 South St.
    Residence 29 Aug 1935  Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Occupation Railroad Yardmaster 
    Cause of death Lung Cancer 
    Death 29 Aug 1935  Temple, Bell, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    • at 10:40 p.m. at G.C. & S.F. Hospital
    Burial 31 Aug 1935  Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery, Houston, Harris, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    • Abbey Mausoleum; death certifcate states burial in San Antonio, Texas
    Person ID I12569  Dyal and Speckels
    Last Modified 16 Sep 2019 

    Family Erna Anna HELLMUTH,   b. 16 Sep 1889, Bellville, Austin, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Oct 1978, Waco, McLennan, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years) 
    Marriage 28 Sep 1918  Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6
    Family ID F8840  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 14 Sep 2019 

  • Notes 
    • John Crofford was a widower with grown children at the time he married Erna Hellmuth Wilson. He died in the early 1930s. [7]

  • Sources 
    1. [S155] Death Records, File No. 36261.

    2. [S1737] Find A Grave, Forest Park Cemetery, Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA, 14 Sep 2019.

    3. [S14] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920, Jefferson County, Texas, ED 89, p. 3A, line 36.

    4. [S15] United States of America, Bureau of the Census, Fifteenth Census of the United States, 1930, Jefferson County, Texas, ED 17, p. 11A, line 43.

    5. [S370] ed., Alma von Rosenberg Tomlinson, The von Rosenberg Family of Texas, (Toepperwein Publishing Co. (Boerne, TX, 1949); reprint: Nortex Press (n.p., 1986)), p. 61.

    6. [S3012] Ancestry.com, Texas, Select County Marriage Records, 1837-2015, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014), Jefferson County Clerk's Office; Jefferson, Texas; Jefferson County, Texas, Marriage Records; Document Number: 15419A.

    7. [S371] ed., Charles Wilburn von Rosenberg, The Von Rosenberg Family Record, (Texian Press (Waco, TX, 1974)), p 127.