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Crawford United Church (formerly Presbyterian) |
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The Crawford Presbyterian Church was located in the former Bentinck Township, Grey County. A. Andrew Milne (1859-1941) was a Precentor there in the 1890s. He led the singing by using a tuning fork (Presbyterian churches did not have organs in their early days, but eventually they were added). In 1895, Mr. Milne was an Elder, Secretary, Treasurer, and Precentor at the Crawford church. In 1914, he and his family moved away to Brant Township, where he found some land that was better suited for farming. His wife, Catherine Milne (nee McKinnon) had grown up in the Crawford area and her father's bedstead is in the Grey Roots museum collection. Mr. Neil McKinnon, who was a Presbyterian, was killed in 1885 by a lightning strike that had entered his log house and struck him as he was sleeping in his bed. Mrs. Milne was sixteen-year-old Catherine (Kate) McKinnon at the time, and she had saved her mother and baby brother by dousing the flames on the bedding. The Crawford community assisted Mrs. Effie McKinnon and her children, and they managed to save their farm. |
