Crawford - Misleading Obit

Obituaries are a researchers dream, right?  Maybe not so much…..

Samuel ‘Ashford’ Crawford married Annie Mabel Vincent, the daughter of James Edward Vincent & Nancy Annie Heather.  Ashford and Annie went on to have 5 children, one being Ernest Murray Crawford.

I found this obit for Ashford and Annie's grandson

New Glasgow Evening News, Mon, 27 Apr 1987
NINE MILE RIVER - Cecil M. Crawford, Nine Mile River, 28, died at home Friday. Born in Springhill, he was a son of Marien (Vandenberg) Crawford and the late Ernest M. Crawford. He was a resident of Nine Mile River most of his life, was a labourer, and most recently worked in Halifax. He is survived locally by a sister, Sadie (Mrs. Daniel MacLeod), Piedmont, Pictou County. The remains are resting in Withrow MacMillan Funeral Home, Upper Nine Mile River, where funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday. Interment will be in Sand Hill Cemetery, Upper Nine Mile River. Donations may be made to East Gore United Church, Sand Hill Cemetery, or IWK Hospital for Children.

Yet, research isn't always linear, clean, straightforward.  We usually get yanked off course more than once because we go chasing threads, possibilities.  Or we move on thinking we were finished only to make a new discovery later on.....

WHAT HAVE WE HERE?

Chronicle Herald, 27 Jul 1982

Upper Nine Mile River - Ernest Murray Crawford, 64, of Upper Nine Mile River, Hants County, died Sunday in Colchester Hospital, Truro.  Born in Hartford, Cumberland County, he was a son of the late Ashford and Annie (Vincent) Crawford.  he retired from construction work in 1976 due to his health.  Surviving are his wife, the former Marien Janette Vandenberg; four daughters, Margaret (Mrs Alvin Hunsley), Masstown; Sadie (Mrs Daniel MacLeod), Piedmont; Eileen (Mrs Gary Scothor), Hardwood Lands; and Murna (Mrs Brian Sears), Shubenacadie; six sons, Vernon, Neil, Lester, Dennis and Cecil, all of Upper Nine Mile River; and Douglas, Belnan; 18 grandchildren and five great grandchildren.  He was predeceased by a son, Gilbert Angus; two sisters, Janie and Saide; and two brothers, Lovell and Russell.  The body is in the Withrow-MacMillan Funeral Home, Upper Nine Mile River.  Funeral will be 2 pm Wednesday in East Gore United Church, Rev Kevin Dingwell officiating with burial in Sand Hill Cemetery.  In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Nova Scotia Heart fund or the East Gore United church.

From what I can see, all the siblings remained in Nova Scotia yet only one sister was mentioned?

As addicting as catnip, obituaries are the cat's meow for us genealogists, but this proves they aren't always the end of the story or the only story!