The Crow Family
of Tennessee,
Colorado,
& California
Russell Crow was born in Tennessee and married Eliza _____ who was
also born in Tennessee. According to the 1850 Census of Jefferson
County, he was 46 years old in 1850 and Eliza was 34. Russell and
his wife went to Adair County, Missouri in 1853. There he entered
land near Sublette where he died in November of 1877. Besides the
Crows, Eliza McCluse, age 30, was also living with them according
to the 1850 Census. They had the following children:
1. Mary E. Crow, age 1.
2. Caroline Crow, age 3.
3. Russel L. [Russell T.?] Crow, age 5, of whom later.
5. Isaac Manning Crow, age 6 of whom later.
6. Gideon Crow, age 7.
7. Emiline Crow, age 9.
8. James A. Crow, age 11.
9. Pleasant Crow, age 13, of whom later.
Russell T. Crow, born ca. 1845, the son of Russell and Eliza Crow
married on August 19, 1869 in Adair County, Missouri, Sarah E.
Stewart. They had at least one child,
Alva M. Crow, born September 14, 1876 on a farm near Trinity,
Missouri. There he was raised and when grown bought eighty acres
of his own farm, married and went into farming for himself. There
he continued to live and purchased more land until he owned 600
acres, considered to have been one of the best improved farms in
the county at the turn of the century. There he bred Hereford
cattle and fine pigs and horses. He was a Republican. On January
1, 1899 he married Maude Lewis, daughter of George Washington
Lewis and Sarah C. Griggs. In later life, Maude was a Methodist.
She went to Adair County April 11, 1880 with her father George
Washington Lewis who was born November 6, 1843 in Madison County,
Ohio. In 1880 he went to Missouri and married Sarah C. Griggs near
Downing, Missouri. He bought a farm called the Hop Napp farm four
miles from Greentop, Missouri. There he lived until his death at
the age of 64 years, 6 months and 3 days on May 9, 1908. G. W.
Lewis and his wife had five children: Sarah C. Lewis, Ernest B.
Lewis, Maude J. Lewis [above], Loney Lewis who married a Mr.
Myers, Emma Grace Lewis, and Bedlah A. Lewis who married a Mr.
Pierce. Alva M. and Maude Lewis Crow had four children:
1. Morris E. Crow, born January 16, 1900.
2. Cecil S. Crow, born September 5, 1901.
3. Byrdie D. Crow, born February 28, 1903 and died when
three weeks old.
4. Boyd L. Crow, born April 10, 1906.
Isaac Manning Crow, son of Russell and Eliza Crow was born on
September 17, 1844 [he was age 6 in the 1850 Census of Jefferson
Co., Kentucky] in Green County, Tennessee. Isaac lived with his
father until 1862 when he joined Company C., 7th Missouri Cavalry.
He served four months and then spent a year in Illinois and Iowa,
returned to his parents home and remained with them until 1867. At
that time he married and began farming for himself. In 1871 he
bought a large farm or 540 acres which he later divided with his
sons, keeping only 100 acres for himself. Crow was a Democrat and
a member of the Baptist Church. He was first married Mary Eller
Conner on February 13, 1868 by who he had eight children. Mary
Crow died on March 22, 1892. On February 29, 1903 Isaac married
Mrs. Sarah Sweatman, the daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth
Christian. She was born in Macon County, Missouri on December 24,
1846 [See History of Adair County, Missouri by E. M. Violette, The
Denslow History Co., 1911; also 1900 Census of Missouri, Adair
Co.]. Isaac and Mary Crow had issue:
1. Lura Elizabeth Crow, born April 3, 1873 in Adair Co.,
MO.
2. Eliza Jane Crow, born December 24, 1871 in Adair Co., MO.
3. Charley Crow, born in Missouri November 1880 [Census,
1900].
4. Mary C. Crow, born in Missouri February 1844 [Census,
1900].
5. Pearl C. Crow, born in Missouri October 1887 [Census,
1900].
6. Joseph L. Crow, born in Missouri September 1891 [Census,
1900].
7. _____ Crow
8. _____ Crow
By her first marriage, Isaac's second wife Sarah Christian
Sweatman Crow had three children:
1. Sallie Sweatman who married John R. Hilt.
2. John Sweatman
3. Edgar Sweatman
Pleasant Crow, son of Russell and Eliza Crow who was born in
Tennessee in December of 1838. Both his father and mother were
also born in Tennessee (Census, 1900, Adair Co., Polk Township,
Missouri, #85). He married Sarah who was born in Missouri in
February of 1848. Both of her parents were born in Kentucky
(Census, Ibid.). It is most probable that Sarah was the same Sarah
E. Fletcher who married on November 23, 1884, Pleasant R. Crow in
Adair, Missouri (Morman Records). This would make Pleasant Crow's
middle initial "R [ussell? andall?]." As of the Census of 1900,
they had been married 15 years and had five children, four of whom
were living in 1900, among whom was:
Paul Randall Crow who was born in Kirksville, Missouri in August
of 1889 (Census, Ibid.) . He married Sylvia Burke who was born in
Kansas on January 6, 1888. They had issue among 3 sisters and one
brother:
Ivan Lewis Crow, born February 8, 1920 in Garden City, Kansas. He
married in Garden City, Kansas in 1941, Betty Nelle White, born
September 7, 1921 in Wichita, Kansas, daughter of Myron Everett
White and Nellie Faye Thetford. They had issue three children:
1. Michael Lewis Crow, born March 15, 1948 in Colorado
Springs, Colorado, of whom later.
2. John Randall Crow, born August 13, 1951 in Colorado
Springs, Colorado.
3. Cathy Camille Crow, born August 31, 1954 in Colorado
Springs, Colorado.
Michael Lewis Crow, Esq., was born March 15, 1948 in Colorado
Springs, Colorado. At 2:00 PM on Sunday, June 6, 1982 he married
at St. Paul's Church, Healdsburg, California, Katherine Hambly,
born Christmas Day, 1948. Michael and Katherine Hambly Crow had
issue:
1. Matthew Ellsworth Crow, born in Sacramento, California,
November 23, 1982, baptized May 15, 1983, at Trinity
Cathedral, Sacramento, California by The Very Reverend
Charles Mortimer Gilbert. The Rev. Shelley Burch Joel and
Margaret Hambly Watson (Katherine's sister) were the
godparents.
2. Barbara Whitman Crow, born in Sacramento, California,
March 19, 1984, baptized First Sunday after Easter, 1984 at
St. Paul's Church, Healdsburg, California by The Very
Reverend Marvin Bowers, Rector.
3. Susan Lowell Crow, born May 7, 1987 in Sacramento,
California and baptized at St. Paul's Church, Healdsburg,
California, July 22, 1987 by the Very Reverend Marvin
Bowers, Rector.