Dialthea Perry Crawford

b. 24 July 1817, d. 9 October 1882
  • Dialthea Perry Crawford was born on 24 July 1817 in Washington County, Tennessee, named for her mother's sister Dialthea Cook Perry Haynie.
  • John Montgomery Crawford and Caroline Wilhelmina Perry appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1830 in the Eastern District, Washington County, Tennessee. Other (counted but unnamed) members of the household apparently included Dialthea Perry Crawford, Mary McRoberts Crawford, Theney Arnold Crawford, William Haynie Crawford, Sion Perry Crawford and John Montgomery Crawford Jr.
  • John Montgomery Crawford and Caroline Wilhelmina Perry appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Washington County, Tennessee, living with, or next to, daghter and son-in-law Mary and Francis Robertson. Other members of the household included Dialthea Perry Crawford. There appears to have been some confusion with a Seaborn family, perhaps overlapping of two households by the enumerator.
  • She and John McAmish obtained a marriage license on 27 August 1850 at Greene County, Tennessee.
  • She married John McAmish on 29 August 1850 in Greene County, Tennessee. The marriage was solemnized by Dialthea's father Wm H. Crawford, Gospel Minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church..
  • John McAmish and Dialthea Perry Crawford appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Romeo PO, Greene County, Tennessee. Other members of the household included William Montgomery McAmish and James S. McAmish.
  • John McAmish and Dialthea Perry Crawford appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1870 in Greene County, Tennessee. Other members of the household included William Montgomery McAmish and James S. McAmish.
  • John McAmish and Dialthea Perry Crawford appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Greene County, Tennessee.
  • Dialthea Perry Crawford died on 9 October 1882 at age 65 in Greene County, Tennessee.
  • Her husband John McAmish became a widower at her death.
  • Last Edited: 28 Feb 2011

Family: John McAmish b. 13 January 1828, d. 2 June 1890