Biographical Sketch of David T. M. Crow, Texas County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas,
Pulaski, Phelps & Dent Counties, Missouri, from Earliest Times to the
Present" Published by Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1889.

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David T. M. Crow, farmer, of Sherrill Township, was born in Morgan
County, Ala., January 6, 1833, and is the son of Dickerson and Malinda
(Matkin) Crow, born in South Carolina and Kentucky in 1809 and 1808,
respectively.  When young both moved to Morgan County, Ala., where 
they married and lived until 1837, when they came to St. Francois
County, MO., and three years later to Texas County, settling five miles
north of Licking, on Spring Creek, where the mother still lives.  Al-
though starting with little means, Mr. Crow soon became a well-to-do
farmer, and was a prominent citizen of the county.  During the war he
represented Texas County in the Legislature; had been a Democrat before
that time, but after peace was declared he affiliated with the Republi-
can party.  Both he and wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.  He died July 7, 1870.  In their family were ten children, nine
sons and one daughter, of whom our subject is the third in order of
birth.  He assisted his father on the farm, and attended the common
schools, being obliged to walk as far as five miles to attend the same.
At the age of twenty-one he commenced for himself by farming, which has
been his business ever since.  November 1, 1859, he married Miss Martha
J. Burnes, a native of North Carolina, born February 20, 1832, and to
this union were born four children: James F., Jennie (deceased), Lucy
(deceased), and Jacob D.  In August, 1861, Mr. Crow enlisted in Company
B, Bowen's battalion, in which he served about a year, and was then
transferred to the Tenth Missouri Cavalry, United States Army, where he
served three years.  He was in a number of minor engagements.  After 
the war he returned home and engaged in tilling the soil.  In 1857 Mr.
Crow entered 320 acres of land, where he now lives, and since then he
has added eighty acres more.  He is a hard working, industrious man,
and has about 100 acres under cultivation.  He has been a resident of
this county for forty-eight years, and is one of its best citizens. He
was a Democrat before the war, but since that eventful struggle he has
affiliated with the Republican party.  He and wife are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.

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