Ella W. Crawford (b. Way) (1855-1905) was born in Indiana and died in Wellsboro, Indiana. She married Robert R. Crawford, a businessman and Civil War Veteran, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1875. They eventually moved to Indiana and went back and forth to Spokane, Washington, for Robert's businesses. Crawford studied Christian Science with Minnie B. Hall De Soto, a student of Mary Baker Eddy, in 1886 before becoming a student of Eddy herself, completing the Primary class in March 1888. She joined The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 1, 1893. She was a member of the Christian Scientist Association and of the General Association of Teachers. Crawford was listed in the directory of The Christian Science Journal as a Christian Science teacher and practitioner in Spokane in 1893 and in Wellsboro from 1894 until her death.

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