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Cordelia Adams Crawford
Cordelia Adams Crawford, c. 1897
Born	Cordelia Adams ( 1865-02-27)February 27, 1865 Willow Creek, Texas
Died	February 2, 1943(1943-02-02) (aged 77)

Cordelia Adams Crawford (1865–1943) was a pioneer and healer in Arizona. She was known for her generosity to multiple, often conflicting, factions.

Biography

Cordelia Adams was born on February 27, 1865, to Emily and John Adams in Willow Creek, a town near Lampasas, Texas.^[1] She was the youngest of five children, a sister named Saphrona, and brothers James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, and Jefferson Davis.^[1] John Quincy Adams had been a Confederate soldier and lost his land in Texas due to the war. In 1867, the Adams family joined a wagon train going to California, and peeled off to investigate the new Phoenix settlement. Shortly after arriving in Phoenix, another Crawford child was born.^[1]

In 1869, the Adams family continued to California, where they stayed until 1877. John established a cattle ranch. Cordelia went on to marry her father's assistant, Bushrod Foley Crawford on August 8, 1880. Al Sieber served as a witness to their wedding and remained a family friend.^[2]

The Crawfords lived at a small ranch. Bush sold cattle in San Diego, so Cordelia regularly managed the ranch. Due to the rural setting, Cordelia delivered her own children^[1] Cordelia was skilled in healing, and served her community. She was friendly with the Apache women who would pass through the community, and treat them and their children.^[3] This friendship may have saved her ranch during the Battle of Cibecue Creek.^[2]

The Crawfords had three children, Nona (August 4, 1881), Oran Sieber (March 14, 1884), and Emily (November 14, 1886).^[2]

The Crawfords remained neutral in the Pleasant Valley War.^[2] They moved to Tonto Creek.^[2] Cordelia managed the Tonto stage stop, where partisans from both sides stopped for food and lodging. Cordelia developed a way to serve the partisans without seeing them, speaking to them through a door. This strategy allowed her to say she had not seen the men in the party. The Crawfords returned to their ranch following the war.^[2]

In 1893, the Crawfords moved to Globe, Arizona. There, Bush Crawford killed a saloonkeeper with whom he had a dispute. He was sent to prison for two years, but was pardoned by Oakes Murphy after a year.^[2]

Bush died in 1935. Cordelia lived another seven years, dying on February 2, 1943.^[2]

Legacy

Crawford was among the first women inducted into the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame in 1981.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Cordelia Adams Crawford". AWHF. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Maxwell, Margaret F. (1985). "Cordelia Adams Crawford of the Tonto Basin". The Journal of Arizona History. 26 (4): 415–428. ISSN 0021-9053.
^ "Cordelia Adams Crawford - Tonto National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)". www.nps.gov. Retrieved 2023-12-17.

Arizona Women's Hall of Fame – by year of induction

1980s

1981	Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton Cordelia Adams Crawford Sharlot Hall Isabella Greenway King Lorna E. Lockwood Anna Moore Shaw
1982	Nellie T. Bush Eulalia Elias Ana Frohmiller Maie Bartlett Heard Frances Lillian Willard Munds Placida Garcia Smith
1983	Mary Bernard Aguirre Angela Hutchinson Hammer Laura E. Herron Edith Stratton Kitt Amy Cornwall Neal Jane H. Rider
1984	Rachel Emma Allen Berry Nellie Cashman Sallie Davis Hayden Elsie Toles Carmen Soto Vasquez
1985	Ida Redbird Sarah Herring Sorin Grace M. Sparkes Louisa Wade Wetherill
1986	Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter Helen Congdon D'Autremont Minnie K. Guenther Viola Jimulla Nampeyo Ruth Reinhold Clarissa Winsor
1987	Eulalia "Sister" Bourne Ann-Eve Mansfeld Johnson Abbie W. Keith Jessie Harper Linde Hattie Greene Lockett Clara T. Woody
1988	Grace Chapella Josephine W. Goldwater Hallie Bost Wright Hopkins Clara Otero Thamar Richey Mary V. Riley
1989	Guess Eleanor Birchett Polly Hicks Brown Jessie Benton Evans Mollie Fly Elizabeth S. Oldaker Minna Vrang Orme

1990s

1990	Clara Osborne Botzum Vernell Coleman Josephine Brawley Hughes Elizabeth Shannon Minnie McFarland Stevens Florence Brookhart Yount
1991	Margaret Bell Douglas Margaret Taylor Hance Polingaysi Qöyawayma (Elizabeth Q. White) Margaret Sanger Slee Ola Young
1994	Maria Urquides

2000s

2002	Mary Elizabeth Post Annie Dodge Wauneka
2004	Veora Johnson Louise Lincoln Kerr Winona E. Montgomery Clara Lee Tanner
2006	Jessie Gray Bevan Lucretia Breazeale Hamilton Ethel Maynard Patricia Ann McGee Polly Rosenbaum
2008	Betty Accomazzo Katharine Bartlett C. Louise Boehringer Sister Kathleen Clark

2010s

2010	Helene Thomas Bennett Alice M. Birdsall Pauline Bates Brown Jean Maddock Clark Anne E. Lindeman
2013	Rose E. Collom Jean Chaudhuri Helen Sekaquaptewa Jacque Yelland Steiner Dorothy Elaine Powell
2015	Marietta Bryant Daisy Moore Lorraine W. Frank Louise Foucar Marshall Helen K. Mason Lucy Sikorsky
2017	Rebecca Dallis Sister Clare Dunn Gladys McGarey Clara M. Schell Louise Serpa Christine Kajikawa Wilkinson Julia Zozaya
2018	Erma Bombeck Josefina Franco Maria Garcia Margaret Injasoulian Alison Levine Bridgie M. Porter Mary Jo West
2019	Shelley Cohn Kate Cory Emma Lee French Sharon Harper (Ethnographer) Guadalupe Huerta Cindy Hensley McCain Rosa Lyons McKay Barbara Rodriguez Mundell

2020s

2020	Betsey Bayless Jana Bommersbach Betty Fairfax Jean E. Fairfax Gracia Liliana Fernandez Michele Halyard Pauline O’Neill Karrin Taylor Robson Catherine Steele (Arizona) Carolyn Warner
2021	Barbara Barrett Armida Guerena Bittner Mary Black Margie Emmerman Jane Dee Hull Gerda Weissmann Klein
2022	Dosia Carlson Sheila Grinell Edna Landin Janet Napolitano Victoria Mary Stephens Pearl Tang
2023	LaVerne Williams Eleanor Ragsdale Theodora Marsh Terri Cruz Octaviana J. Trujillo Emma Torres Denise Resnik Diana Yazzie Devine

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