John Finley Crowe

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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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