Crutchelow, James

CRUTCHELOW

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Date: 7/5/2021 at 12:06:04

History of Warren County, Iowa; Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns & Etc., by Union Historical Company, 1879, p.692

CRUTCHELOW, JAMES, farmer, Union Township, Sec. 31; P. O. Sandyville; born in North Carolina, Oct. 16, 1828; his parents removed to Ohio in 1841, where he was principally raised; in 1851 he came to this county, and engaged in farming, and rented land for two years; he bought his present farm of 210 acres in 1853; his great-grandfather was killed in the Revolutionary War; was married in 1859 to Elizabeth Hicks, a native of Indiana, who died June 10, 1868, leaving a family of five children: Martha A., Marietta, Wm. B., Laura B. and James; he married Elizabeth J. Sherman, May 20, 1869, a native of Ohio; they have five children: Josiah S., Dora, Benjamin, Jessie and Henry.