Crow, Basil Catryl: 1800 - 1872; Biography, Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Edward Crow Girard



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Basil Catryl Crow was born in Bardstown, Nelson county, Kentucky, on March 13,1800.  
He was the son of Basil Crow and Frances Ann Brashear.  Not much is known concerning 
his early boyhood.  His parents left Bardstown and moved to Franklin, Louisiana,
when Basil was about 12 years old.  He graduated from Transylvania University, 
Louisville, Kentucky in 1820.  He began his law studies under John Brownson in St.
Martinville, Louisiana in 1821, admitted to the Louisiana bar in 1823.  He married
Maximillian Brashear at Brashear, Louisiana (now Morgan City) in 1825, and settled
on a plantation near Vermilionville (Lafayette) Louisiana.  
They had nine children.  In 1840, he was elected to the Louisiana state senate for 
one term. In 1854, he retired from his law practice to engage in agriculture.  In
the Fall of 1863, his plantation was seized and occupied by the Union army. This
was located at Crow Avenue (now Pinhook Rd.) and the Vermilion bridge.   
He died in Lafayette, Louisiana January 28, 1872, and is buried at the Lafayette
Protestant Cemetery of which he was the founder.


Sources:  Bardstown, Ky. courthouse archival records; Lafayette Advertiser article
Jan. 1872, and original obituary from Lafayette Advertiser; "Yankee Autumn in 
Acadiana" by David Edmonds; Journal Du Senat, 2nd session, 6Jan1840.