Young County - Obituaries - Henson Cole Crownover *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Marian Bryson McGowen Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************** OBITUARY:   CROWNOVER FUNERAL HELD Messenger Nov 1981   H. C. (Henson Cole) Crownover, 87, a native of Coryell County, died Nov. 7 in an Olney hospital after a long illness. He had been a patient in an Olney nursing home for 12 years before his death.   Services were held Nov. 9 at the Lunn Funeral Home in Olney, with Rev. Phil Pearson officiating. Burial was in Restland Cemetery in Olney.   Mr. Crownover, oldest son of the late J. E. (James Eulysses) and Sophia Blanchard Crownover, was born June 25, 1894, at Straw's Mill near Gatesville. He moved as a child with the family to Coleman County in 1904, then to Baylor Counry in 1905. He was a resident of Baylor, Knox and Young counties for 76 years and had lived at Olney the last 60 years.   Mr. Crownover, a retired farmer, was a member of the Baptist Church. He was preceeded in deayh by his wife and a son.   Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Alice Teston of Seminole and Mrs. Verle Johnson of Olney; two brothers, Arthur Crownover of Knox City and Clint Crownover of Seymour; 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. [Barbara Jean Crownover Roberts, is a grandaughter of Henson Cole Crownover, daughter of Arthur Lee Crownover, Henson's son and is also my half sister]