--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Family Group Record 0035 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Moved to Missouri in 1802 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Children --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Sex Name M John Alexander Crowe (1st) Born: 27 Sep 1814 Place: Fayette County, Kentucky Died: Mar 1816 Place: Shelbyville, Shelby, Kentucky --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Sex Name M Thomas Searle Crowe (Reverend) Born: 24 Jan 1822 Place: Shelbyville, Shelby, Kentucky Died: 03 Jan 1871 Place: Married: Place: Spouse: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Moved to Indiana in 1823 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12. Sex Name F Sarah Almira Crowe Born: 20 Feb 1833 Place: Hanover, Clark (Jefferson), Indiana Died: 02 Jun 1897 Place: Married: Place: Spouse: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update 03.08.00 David Kelley 2000 FGR-0035.HTM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------