{"id":2931,"date":"2024-12-09T13:50:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T19:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/?p=2931"},"modified":"2025-08-22T19:42:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T00:42:14","slug":"jessie-bennett-crawford-photo-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/jessie-bennett-crawford-photo-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessie Bennett Crawford Photo Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the photo collection of Jessie Bennett Crawford, contributed here by her nephew, <a href='mailto:jbennett1@PRODIGY.NET'>John L. Bennett<\/a>, and son, <a href='mailto:gobpc@sprintmail.com'>Bennett P. Crawford<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img src='\/Media\/Photos\/mo-andrew\/families\/plow.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>The old plow is a double V-shared sod-busting plow used to break up the prairie sod in the 1850&#8217;s-1860&#8217;s. It presently (Oct 2000) sits on land owned by the Bennett&#8217;s 2 miles East of Star Chapel Methodist Church (see photo below).  Photo by Bennett Crawford. <\/p>\n<p><img src='\/Media\/Photos\/mo-andrew\/families\/presby-c.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>The Empire Presbyterian Church Memorial, located on the site of the church, is a replica of the original church which burned about 15 years ago. Photo by Bennett Crawford<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/Media\/Photos\/mo-andrew\/families\/s-chapel.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>Original Star Chapel Church, at Empire Prarie, from the photo collection of Jessie Bennett Crawford. Per John Bennett: &#8220;The building in the back has to be the outhouse. Think it was still there when I was growing up in the 1940&#8217;s, however a much larger and newer church was erected in the early 1900&#8217;s. By 1950 they had running water and converted an old storage room to a toilet.&#8221;  Photo contributed by Jessie&#8217;s son, Bennett Crawford, and nephew, John L. Bennett. <\/p>\n<p><img src='\/Media\/Photos\/mo-andrew\/families\/blue-sch.jpg' \/> <img src='\/Media\/Photos\/mo-andrew\/families\/garfield.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p>The old Blue School district split and became Garfield and Empire School districts about 1879. These articles are old, but I don&#8217;t know how old. Probably were printed in the 1930&#8217;s or 40&#8217;s. Photo contributed by Jessie&#8217;s son, Bennett P. Crawford, and nephew, John L. Bennett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the photo collection of Jessie Bennett Crawford, contributed here by her nephew, John L. Bennett, and son, Bennett P. Crawford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558,561],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-andrew-county","category-people-andrew-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2933,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2931\/revisions\/2933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cousin-collector.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}