Crow, William

CROW

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Date: 7/5/2021 at 12:05:04

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.666

CROW, WILLIAM., farmer, Jefferson Township, Sec. 2; P. O. Lothrop; born in Pulaski county, Kentucky, in 1818, and lived there till about sixteen years of age, when, with his father, he emigrated to Illinois, and lived there till 1839; went from there to Missouri and lived six years, and then came direct to this county, February 6, 1846, and was one of its earliest settlers; first settled on what was known as the "six-mile strip," and belonged to Polk county; while living in Mercer county, Missouri, he married Miss Sirena Young, February 8, 1844, a native of Virginia; has a family of ten children living: William, Mary J., Joseph M., John T., James N., Ellen, Henry S., George E., Ruth A. and Orrin; owns a farm of 260 acres; his son William S., a native of this county, was married to Miss Mary E. Merryman, a native of Virginia, in the year 1867; They have one son: Roscoe E.; he enlisted in the late rebellion in the one hundred day service in Co. C, Forth-eighth Regiment in June, 1865, and was mustered out at Rock Island, Illinois, in October the same year; encountered no engagements while in the service.