Coosa County AlArchives Biographies.....Crew, John S. October 31 1838 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    JOHN S. CREW, hotel keeper at Good Water, Ala., is a son of R. H. and
Lucinda (Selman) Crew, the former of whom was a native of Virginia, born near
Lynchburg. When he was a boy the family moved to Henry county, Ga., where he
grew to manhood and married. He lived there until 1848, when he came to Alabama,
settling in the northeastern part of Coosa, county. Here he has lived ever since
and is now seventy-seven years of age. He has always been a farmer, and a
successful and able financier. He reared a family of seven children, viz.: John
S.; William, who was a member of Hilliard's legion and was killed at the battle
of Shiloh; E. D. a farmer of Greenville, Ala.; R. A., a merchant of Good Water,
Ala.; Isabelle, wife of Alexander O'Neil, postmaster at Good Water, Ala.; B. F.,
merchant at Good Water, Ala.; C. M., merchant of Good Water, Ala. The mother of
these children died in January, 1881. John S. Crew was born October 31, 1838, in
Henry county, Ga. He enlisted in company B, Twelfth Alabama infantry, and went
to Virginia, reaching there the next day after the first battle of Manassas. He
was in the battles of Seven Pines, Sharpsburg, Chancellorsville, in which battle
he received a musket ball in the left shoulder, which broke the shoulder bone,
and ranging downward lodged in the lower part of his back. Returning home to
recover from his wound he remained six months, and then rejoined his company.
Shortly afterward he was assigned to Lee's provost marshal's guard, and served
in that position until the evacuation of Petersburg, at which time he received a
ball in the right hand, which shortened his thumb. He was captured by the
Yankees when they took possession of the works and sent to Newport News,
remaining there until the night of June 5, when he succeeded in making his
escape and returned home. He has been engaged in farming and in merchandising
ever since the war and now he is managing the Good Water Inn. He was married in
1877 in Coosa county, to Eliza Goodgame, by whom he has four children, viz.:
Margie, wife of O. P. Bently of Good Water; Ada L., wife of B. L. Nolan of
Clanton, Ala.; William L. and J. C., both the latter living at home. Politically
Mr. Crew is a democrat and he had been postmaster of Good Water ten years
previous to the present incumbent, and he is a member of the Presbyterian church.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 726

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