Barbour County AlArchives Biographies.....J. E. Crews January 1 1819 - ?
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
   DR. J. E. CREWS, retired physician of Clayton, is a native of Jones county,
Ga., born January 1, 1819, the son of Arthur and Mary (King) Crews. The Crews
family is of Irish extraction, but owing to the death of the doctor's
grandfather when Arthur Crews was a mere child, but little in-formation
concerning its history has been obtained. Arthur Crews served in the Seminole
war and the Indian war of 1836; married in Jones county, Ga., and about the wear
1822 moved to Alabama, settling in what was then Henry county, now the county of
Barbour, where he died in 1872. The doctor's maternal ancestors also came from
Ireland in an early day and settled in Georgia, where many of the descendants
are still to be found. Arthur and Mary Crews reared a family of seven children,
four sons and three daughters, but three of whom are now living, namely: Dr. J.
E.; Jane, wife of Rev. John D. Morrel, and A. A., a planter of Barbour county.
Dr. Crews was brought to Alabama when three years old, and since that tender age
he has been a resident of Barbour county, living nearly all his life in Clayton
and the immediate vicinity. His literary education was acquired by his own
exertion, and having early decided to make the medical profession his life work,
he entered upon the study of the same when twenty-five years of age, and in 1845
became a student in the medical college of South Carolina. He supplemented his
course at this institution by attending a series of lectures in the medical
college at, Augusta, Ga., and after receiving a degree from that school in 1851,
opened an office and for a period of over twenty-five years was actively engaged
in the pursuit of his profession. His success in his chosen calling was very
marked, and during his long period of practice he became the trusted medical
counselor in many of the leading families of Barbour and other counties. The
doctor practically retired from active practice in 1882, and since that time has
turned his attention principally to agriculture, in which he has been quite
successful, his plantation of some 700 acres being one of the well improved
farms of the county. In 1840, Dr. Crews was elected colonel-commandant of the
Eighty-fifth Alabama militia, which position he held for a number of years, and
during the late war he commanded a local military company for home protection.
In matters political, the doctor has borne no inconsiderable part, and upon
three occasions he was called upon to represent the people of Barbour county in
the general assembly, first, in 1874, again in 1876, and a third time in 1886.
For many years the doctor has been prominent in religious circles, being a
recognized leader of the Methodist church in southeastern Alabama. In 1868, he
was honored by being chosen a delegate to the annual conference, and a similar
distinction was again awarded him in 1873. The doctor is a master Mason and has
ever been a supporter of the political principles as laid down by the democratic
party. He married on the 25th of March, 1851, in Early county, Ga., Margaret E.
Du Bois, a member of an old and prominent French family of South Carolina. To
this marriage but one child was born, William Newton Crews, who-died at the
early age of thirteen years. The doctor is now vice-president of the Clayton
Banking company, and is also a shareholder and one of the directors of the same,
his fine business qualifications being fully recognized.



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