Biographical Sketch of M. Polk Crisp, Johnson County, Missouri
Jackson Township
>From "The History of Johnson County, Missouri," 
Kansas City Historical Co. 1881

M. POLK CRISP,

was born in Johnson county, January 8, 1845. He was the son of Granville
Crisp, a native of Alabama, who moved in an early day to Tennessee,
where he remained a short time, and then removed to Missouri with his
father, and when he was nineteen years of age went with a trapping
company to California.  He stayed in California engaged in the fur
business, about four years, when by this time he had accumulated large
sums of money, and returned to Missouri, and married a young lady,
cousin of Hon. F.M. Cockrell.  By this union ten children were born,
viz: John F., James C., Reddin, Pemelia R., Polk M., Louisa S., Martha
E., Mary S. and Granville.  The youngest died in infancy.  He went to
Texas during the war, and there died, Dec. 20, 1865, near Georgetown.
M. Polk, the subject of this sketch, was married Dec. 5, 1872, to Miss
Jane M. Tate.  She was born Dec. 1, 1856, and was a native of Lone Jack,
Jackson county, Mo.  She was living at Lone Jack when the noted battle
occurred there.  One incident she distinctly remembers, that of a shell
passing through the building in which she was.  By their marriage they
have had six children, named as follows: Bessie, Granville, John Tate
and George, the other two, (twins,) are not yet christened.  At the
commencement of the war, our hero went to Texas with his father, where
he attended school a part of the time, and also assisted his father in
taking care of his stock, of which his father was a large dealer.  He
enlisted under Joe Shelby's command at Camp John C. Moore, in the winter
of 1863, and was in Price's raid, and Steele's invasion of Arkansas.  He
was a volunteer under Gen. Price at the battle of Lexington, and was in
the battles of Okolona, West Point, and several skirmishes.  After the
war he attended the State University at Columbia, about five months, and
about the same length of time at Christian Brothers' College at St.
Louis.  He returned to Johnson county and married, where he has ever
since lived in section 23, a farmer and large stock dealer.

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