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Family Group Record 0035
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Moved to Missouri in 1802
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Husband's Name John Finley Crowe (Reverend)
Born: 16 Jun 1787 Place: Greene County, Tennessee
Died: 17 Jan 1860 Place: Hanover, Jefferson, Indiana
Married: 23 Nov 1813 Place: Bellevue, Washington, Missouri
Father: Benjamin Crow
Mother: Ann Gregg (Gragg)
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Wife's Name Esther Alexander
Born: 08 Jun 1792 Place: Lincoln County, North Carolina
Died: 10 Aug 1858 Place: Hanover, Jefferson, Indiana
Father: John Alexander
Mother: Mary (Price) Morisson (Morrison)
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Children
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1. Sex Name
M John Alexander Crowe (1st)
Born: 27 Sep 1814 Place: Fayette County, Kentucky
Died: Mar 1816 Place: Shelbyville, Shelby, Kentucky
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2. Sex Name
F Mary Anne Crowe
Born: 06 May 1816 Place: Shelbyville, Shelby, Kentucky
Died: 25 Dec 1878 Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Married: 19 May 1836 Place: Hanover, Jefferson, Indiana
Spouse: Charles Kilgore Thompson
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3. Sex Name
F Eliza Jane Crowe
Born: 30 Apr 1818 Place: Shelbyville, Shelby, Kentucky
Died: 12 Apr 1836 Place:
Married: Place:
Spouse: William H. Bruner
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4. Sex Name
M Samuel Stanhope Crowe
Born: 23 Jul 1819 Place: Shelbyville, Shelby, Kentucky
Died: 25 May 1882 Place: Palestine, Texas
Married: Apr 1840 Place:
Spouse: Mary B. Fouts
Married: Feb 1849 Place:
Spouse: Amanda N. Warnell
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5. Sex Name
M James Blythe Crowe (Reverend)
Born: 30 Nov 1820 Place: Shelbyville, Shelby, Kentucky
Died: 03 Dec 1895 Place: Hanover, Jefferson, Indiana
Married: 27 Jan 1846 Place: Carrolton, Kentucky
Spouse: Martha Bennett
Married: 08 Mar 1866 Place: Crawfordsville, Indiana
Spouse: Sarah Elizabeth Maxwell
Married: 15 May 1877 Place: Remington, Indiana
Spouse: Martha Elizabeth (unknown) Hughes
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6. Sex Name
M Thomas Searle Crowe (Reverend)
Born: 24 Jan 1822 Place: Shelbyville, Shelby, Kentucky
Died: 03 Jan 1871 Place:
Married: Place:
Spouse:
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Moved to Indiana in 1823
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7. Sex Name
F Martha Matilda Crowe
Born: 12 Oct 1823 Place: Hanover, Clark (Jefferson), Indiana
Died: 28 Dec 1827 Place: Hanover, Clark (Jefferson), Indiana
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8. Sex Name
F Harriet Esther Crowe
Born: 13 Jun 1825 Place: Hanover, Clark (Jefferson), Indiana
Died: 09 Dec 1831 Place: Hanover, Clark (Jefferson), Indiana
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9. Sex Name
F Caroline Elvira Crowe
Born: 24 Mar 1827 Place: Hanover, Clark (Jefferson), Indiana
Died: 1909 Place:
Married: 01 Jan 1849 Place: Jefferson County, Indiana
Spouse: Moses S. Coulter
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10. Sex Name
M Benjamin Walter Crowe (twin)
Born: 05 Aug 1828 Place: Hanover, Clark (Jefferson), Indiana
Died: 16 Jan 1894 Place:
Married: 02 Jan 1849 Place: Jefferson County, Indiana
Spouse: Alice Rogers
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11. Sex Name
M John Alexander Crowe (2nd) twin
Born: 05 Aug 1828 Place: Hanover, Clark (Jefferson), Indiana
Died: Sep 1828 Place: Hanover, Clark (Jefferson), Indiana
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12. Sex Name
F Sarah Almira Crowe
Born: 20 Feb 1833 Place: Hanover, Clark (Jefferson), Indiana
Died: 02 Jun 1897 Place:
Married: Place:
Spouse:
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Sources of Information: Ancestral File (TM) ver 4.10; Copyright 1987, July
1992, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, All rights reserved:
John Finley Crowe (AFN) Ancestral File Number 9BMC-NW, Family History
Library, Salt Lake City, Utah (12 May 1993); The Hoosier Journal of
Ancestry, Jefferson County Special No. 4, Naomi Keith Sexton, 1992,
Marriage Records 1849-1850, page 6; A Biographical History of Eminent and
Self-Made Men of the State of Indiana, Volume I, 1880, page 8.
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Crowe, Colonel Samuel S., attorney, Scottsburg, Scott County, Indiana, was
born at Shelbyville, Kentucky, July 23, 1819, being the oldest son of John
F. and Esther (Alexander) Crowe. Mr. Crowe was a Presbyterian minister, and
his father was a colonel in the Revolutionary War. John F. Crowe moved to
Indiana in 1823, and soon after established the college at Hanover,
remaining with it until his death, which occurred in January, 1860. He was
a very prominent school man, and did much to further the educational
interests of the state. The Colonel attended college at Hanover, and
graduated there October, 1839, and for the next eleven years taught school;
the first place being at Carlisle, Sullivan County, where he had charge of
the high school for two years. He then was the teacher of the high school
at New Washington, Clarke County, for two years, and afterwards gave
instruction in the high school at Hanover, in connection with his father.
During this time the college was removed from Hanover to Madison, and on
its return to Hanover he left the school, going to Madison and studying
law with the Hon. Wilberforce Lyle. He was with him about one year. He then
moved to Lexington, Scott County, and had charge of the seminary, and also
pursued the study of law with Hon. George A. Bicknell. In the spring of
1858 he became clerk in the land office at Washington, District of
Columbia, and in 1859 was appointed chief clerk of Ward B. Burnett,
surveyor-general of Nebraska and Kansas, where he spent over one year in
the city of Nebraska. He continued reading until 1860, when he was admitted
to the bar, and immediately began the practice of his profession with
Judge P.H. Jewett, which he continued until August, 1862, when he raised a
company for the war, and was commissioned captain of Company B, of the
93d Indiana Volunteer Infantry. He was picket officer for the brigade on
the staff of General Ralph Buckland, which he held for one year, when he
was appointed major, and afterwards, lieutenant-colonel. He was in active
service all of the time, and was always to be found at the front. In that
position he was during the siege of Vicksburg, and was there also in the
battle of Jackson, Mississippi, During the latter part of the war he was
provost guard of Memphis, and was also in the battles of Nashville and of
Gainesville, Alabama, at the close of the war, being mustered out of the
service, August 10, 1865. After his return home he resumed the practice of
law in Lexington, but in 1874 moved to Scottsburg, where he now resides.
In 1857 he was elected to the Legislature, and again in 1867. In politics
he is a Democrat, and is one of the leaders of the party in the county. He
attends the Presbyterian Church. He was married to his first wife, Mary B.
Fouts, April, 1840, by whom he has two children, one boy and one girl. The
son, John F., is an attorney in Giddings, Texas. The daughter, Susan E.A.
Griffith, lives at Jeffersonville, Indiana. He married his present wife,
Amanda N. Warnell, February, 1849, by whom he has four sons and one
daughter. His second son, Samuel S., is farming in Texas; Mary C. married
Clarence L. Fouts, who is an architect in San Francisco, California;
William C., Thomas O., and George A. are all at home. The Colonel is a
genial gentleman of the old school, and has the respect of the entire
community. A Biographical History of Eminent and Self-Made Men of the State
of Indiana, Volume I, 1880, page 8.
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John Finley Crowe was born in Green Co., N.C. (now part of Tenn.) 17 June
1787. At 15 he moved to Bellevue, Mo., where he taught for several years.
He decided on the ministry and graduated from Transylvania College in Ky.
in 1813. In 1814 & 15 he studied at Princeton and in 1815 took charge of
the Academy at Shelbyville, Ky. He came to Hanover in 1823 where he died in
Jan. 1860. The Hoosier Journal of Ancestry, Jefferson County Special No. 1,
Naomi Keith Sexton, no date, page 37.
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After the death of Rev. Searle, the Hanover Church (Presbyterian) called
John Finley Crowe who came to Hanover in 1823, a young man of 36 years of
age from N.C. At the age of 15, he and his parents migrated to the land
beyond the Mississippi where John Finley became the schoolmaster in the
little town of Bellevue, Mo. When he decided on the ministry, he removed to
Danville, Ky. (and) went to college and siminary and became licensed to
preach. The Hoosier Journal of Ancestry, Jefferson County Special No. 1,
Naomi Keith Sexton, no date, page 40.
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Update 03.08.00 David Kelley 2000 FGR-0035.HTM
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