It is our painful task to record the death of this aged and highly esteemed gentleman. On last Thursday evening, after an illness of eight or ten days, Edwin CRAWFORD, aged 88 years, father of our fellow townsmen, R. G. and T. N. CRAWFORD, breathed his last. Deceased was one of the pioneers who made the wilderness, where now is situated this thriving place, blossom like the rose. His was a spirit of firmness, kind heart adn full of devotion to principle. Deeply do we sympathize with the mourning friends and relatives of the subject of this brief notice, and sincerely trust that a living faith will lead them to the green fields and shady groves of that sunlit bourne to which the freed spirit of Edwin CRAWFORD has gone. After death there is a uion that is indissoluble, where congenial spirits meet to part no more. Deceased was buried in Union Cemetery, Bolivar, yesterday evening, at 4 o’clock. Rev. George B. ALLEN, of the M.E. Church officiated at the grave.

The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 21 Dec. 1867, Page 3. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.