Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Crews, W. J. 1802 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  W. J. CREWS, farmer, P. O. Palestine. This worthy gentleman first beheld the
light of this world on the 7th day of August, 1802, in Halifax County, Va. His
father, John Crews, was born October 7, 1868, in Virginia. He was married to
Elizabeth Samson, born January 6, 1778, in Virginia. She was the mother of seven
children, three of whom are now living. Mr. J. Crews was one of the first
settlers in this county, having come here with his family in 1817, and entered
160 acres of land in what is now called Montgomery Township, where his son, the
subject of this sketch, was brought up, and on June 18, 1829, he was joined in
matrimony to Miss Amelia Spraggins, born July 9, 1810, in Lincoln County, Ky.
She is the daughter of Nathaniel and Christiana (Carpenter) Spraggins, who came
to this county in 1815. Mrs. Crews is the mother of nine children-Christiana A.,
born April 15, 1830, she was married June 13, 1850; Mary E., born September 29,
1831, married February 29, 1848; Martha A., born November 22, 1834, married
February 19, 1852; William J., born November 27, 1836, he died October 8, 1855;
Margaret, born March 6, 1839, married November 8, 1858; John H., born April 23,
1841, married February 13, 1866; Angeline, born September 1, 1844, married
September 1, 1863; Sarah A., born October 25, 1846, married February 28, 1867;
and Eliza J., born July 28, 1849, married December 30, 1869. Mr. Crews has given
all his children a good start in life, and has also given them that home
training which has made of them excellent members of their respective
communities; altogether his life has been a success, and we feel assured that he
can look back with the greatest pleasure to the days that are long since passed.
He is a Republican, and with his excellent wife and children belongs to the
Methodist Episcopal Church.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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