Lauderdale County AlArchives Biographies.....Crow, James M. 1836 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JAMES M. CROW, son of Thomas J. and Elizabeth Crow, was born at Florence,
March 16, 1836. His father imigrated to this place from Kentucky, in 1821, and
resided here until he died in 1869. He was an honest man and left scores of
friends to mourn his loss. His mother, Elizabeth Hooks, emigrated from North
Carolina to Tennessee in 1824, where she lived until she married his father in
1833. She died in 1886. She was loved and respected by the entire community.

  James M. Crow received his education at the Florence High School. At the
outbreak of the war, he was keeping books for Rice Brothers. In April, 1861, he
entered Company D, Ninth Alabama Infantry, as second-lieutenant, and surrendered
at Appomattox with the rank of major. His first promotion was to
first-lieutenant, at Broad Run, Va., in 1861, and at Williamsburg, in 1862, he
was commissioned captain of his old company. At Orange Court House, in the fall
of 1863, he was commissioned major. He participated in all the battles of the
Wilderness; at Petersburg, second Manassas, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, etc.,
and was wounded in the Seven Days' Fight around Richmond, but so slightly as to
leave no permanent effect.

  Major Crow was one of the most gallant soldiers that went into the army from
North Alabama. At the close of the war he returned at once to Florence, and
engaged in the dry goods business for about a year. He then turned his attention
to steamboating on the Tennessee River, and followed it for ten or twelve years.
At Saltillo, Tenn., he was in the dry goods business for a short time, but gave
it up to return to steamboating. He retired from the steamboat business in 1884,
and in 1885 or '86, was made deputy United States    marshal under Captain
Kellar, with headquarters at Birmingham. From this position, at the end of
eighteen months, he returned to Florence, to engage in real estate business.

  Upon the completion of the new Florence Hotel, Major Crow associated with T.
J. Patty, became its first landlord, where it is unnecessary to say that the
traveling public will find him in his element.

  He was married March 31, 1867, to Miss Mary J. Brandon, daughter of the late
Washington M. Brandon. She died in 1878, leaving two children, a son and a
daughter, Thomas Wood and Mary E. The former, Thomas Wood Crow, graduated from
the State Normal College at Florence, and immediately entered as a member of a
civil engineer corps.

  The Major is a Mason, a member of the I. O. O. F., and of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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