John (Crow) Crowe
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John Finley (Crow) Crowe (abt. 1787 - 1860)

Rev. John Finley Crowe formerly Crow
Born about in Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee, USAmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 23 Nov 1813 in Belle Vue, Washington County, Missouri, USAmap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 72 in Hanover, Jefferson County, Indiana, USAmap
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Biography

The Reverend John Findly Crowe Sr was born 16 Jun 1787, in Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee, USA. His father was Benjamin Crow, and his mother was Ann Gragg. He married Esther Alexander November 23, 1814, in Bellevue, Washington, Missouri. He passed 17 Jan 1860, in Hanover, Jefferson County, Indiana, USA. [1][2][3][4]

Son of Benjamin and Ann (Cregg/Cragg) Crow. Sometime after leaving home he added the "e" to end of his surname. It is unknown as to why. It is also unknown for sure if his middle name was his given name or he took it later. Many of his line believe he added Finley later to have a middle name.

Some Statements of Rev. John Finley Crowe in his typescript of Mass on his ancestors

John Finley Crow is the son of Benjamin Crow and Ann Gregg, Benjamin is the son of Walter Crow and Ann Miller. Ann Gregg is the daughter of Robert Gregg Sr. and the sister of Robert Gregg Jr.
My maternal grand father, Robert Gregg was from the county dury in the North of Ireland. He emigrated a single man to the colony of Virginia and married into a respectable family by the name of Harrison and settled in the neighborhood of Stanton, Augusta County. He was a respectable farmer, a member of the Presbyterian Church. The father of seven sons and five daughters. His eldest son, William, fell about the close of the Revolutionary War in the battle with the Indians at the mouth of the Kenhaws. His sons Thomas-Henry-Robert-Samuel, after having married, moved into my fathers neighborhood in Tennessee. In a few years they were followed by their father with his two youngest sons-John and William. The old gentleman purchased a fine tract of land and for a number of years lived as a patriarch, surrounded by six sons and four daughters.
I had four brothers and six sisters, the two eldest, Elizabeth (Betsey), and Walter were born in Virginia. Ann, myself Mary (Polly), Lydia, Robert, Benjamin, Nancy, and James Rankin in Tennessee and Rachel in Missouri. Elizabeth, Walter, and Ann married in Tennessee. Elizabeth married Thomas McLaughlin, Walter married Margaret Hutchinson, and Ann married James McLaughlin brother to Thomas.
When my father moved to Missouri they all went with him and settled in the same neighborhood, in a beautiful cove called Bellevue. There my sister Mary (Polly) married a man by the name of Curtis Morris, Robert and Benjamin both married after I left Mo. Robert married Elizabeth Brown. Benjamin married Nancy Daniels. My sister Nancy married a cousin, Thomas Gragg, son of Robert Gregg Jr.[5]

Some facts about Rev. John Finley Crowe

Founder of Hanover College at Hanover, IN.
1808-April 1809 to Kentucky for more education back to Missouri - converted to the Presbyterian faith.
1811-1813 graduated Transylvania University, Lexington, Fayette Co., KY
May 1814 ordained an Elder in Pisgah Church, KY
1814-1815 Princeton Theological Seminary,Borough of Princeton, New Jersey.
1815 founded a Academy-school, Shelbyville, Shelby Co., KY and pastor of 2 rura l churches (Fox Run and Bull Skin) near Shelbyville, KY 1823 John Finley Crowe moved to Hanover, Jefferson Cyt, IN.

History of Hanover Church

Thomas C. Searle, the founder and first pastor of the Hanover Presbyterian Church, only enjoyed his post there for a year and a half before he died in October of 1821. The new church took nearly two years to find an able successor to assume pastoral responsibilities at Hanover. Early in 1823, the church's session agreed to issue a call to a thirty-five year old minister from Kentucky named John Finley Crowe.
Crowe was born June 16, 1787 in Green County, Tennessee. He spent his teen years with his parents in Missouri, where he realized his call to the ministry under the guidance of a Methodist minister. He moved to Kentucky in 1809 and studied privately for two years before matriculating at Transylvania University in Lexington. His popularity in Kentucky declined when he published an abolitionist essay during his undergraduate years. Crowe became a member of a Presbyterian church in Lexington and, in 1814, was sent to the Church's General Assembly in Philadelphia.
Feeling drawn to the Presbyterian Church, Crowe studied at Princeton Theological Seminary beginning in 1814 and was ordained to the Church's ministry the following year. He removed to Shelbyville, Kentucky, where he took charge of an Academy and became pastor of two local churches. Again publicly expressing his anti-slavery views, Crowe developed a contentious reputation in Shelbyville. When Crowe received the call from John M. Dickey, moderator of the Hanover Church's session, he happily accepted it to avoid further conflicts in Kentucky. [6][7]

1820 US Federal Census

Name: John F Crow
Home in 1820 (City, County, State): Shelby, Kentucky
Enumeration Date: August 7, 1820
Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 26 thru 44: 1
Slaves - Females - Under 14: 1
Free White Persons - Under 16: 3
Free White Persons - Over 25: 2
Total Free White Persons: 5
Total Slaves: 1
Total All Persons - White, Slaves, Colored, Other: 6[8][9]

1830 US Federal Census

Name: J F Crow
Home in 1830 (City, County, State): Jefferson, Indiana
Free White Persons - Males - Under 5: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 5 thru 9: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 14: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 15 thru 19: 2
Free White Persons - Males - 50 thru 59: 1
Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 14: 2
Free White Persons - Females - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1
Free White Persons - Under 20: 10
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 2
Total Free White Persons: 13
Total - All Persons (Free White, Slaves, Free Colored): 13[10][11]

1850 US Federal Census

Name: J Finly Crow
Event Type: Census
Event Year: 1850
Event Place: South Hanover, Jefferson, Indiana, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 63
Race: White
Birth Year (Estimated): 1787
Birthplace: Tennessee
House Number: 389
J Finly Crow Male 63 Tennessee
Esta Crow Female 56 North Carolina
Sarah Crow Female 17 Indiana[12][13]

Will

Name: John Finley Crowe
Probate Place: Marion, Indiana, USA
Inferred Death Place: Indiana, USA
Item Description: Wills, 1930-1931[14][15][16]

Sources

  1. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64601071/john-finley-crowe
  2. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LH5C-HPP
  3. http://person.ancestry.com/tree/48040613/person/20059526112/facts
  4. http://person.ancestry.com/tree/30896367/person/12324293920/facts
  5. http://mv.ancestry.com/viewer/cc5773bc-8c94-424d-9612-4e7709d87379/30896367/12324293920?_phsrc=sau41&usePUBJs=true
  6. Michael J. Poor -found on internet.
  7. http://mv.ancestry.com/viewer/1c7624d2-20be-4188-ac92-61005fc0a6e8/30896367/12324293920?_phsrc=sau42&usePUBJs=true
  8. 1820 U S Census; Census Place: Shelby, Kentucky; Page: 144; NARA Roll: M33_24; Image: 156
  9. https://search.ancestry.com/collections/7734/records/1189571
  10. 1830; Census Place: Jefferson, Indiana; Series: M19; Roll: 28; Page: 107; Family History Library Film: 0007717
  11. https://search.ancestry.com/collections/8058/records/998146
  12. "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHJ2-3KY : 12 April 2016), J Finly Crow, South Hanover, Jefferson, Indiana,
  13. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-64G4-VC?i=10&cc=1401638
  14. Record of Wills, 1824-1939; Author: Marion County (Indiana). Circuit Court Clerk; Probate Place: Marion, Indiana
  15. https://search.ancestry.com/collections/9045/records/277013
  16. See: https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Crow-247-2

* Johnson, Rossiter, ed.. Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Vol. I-X. Boston, MA, USA: The Biographical Society, 1904. Ancestry.com. [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.

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Crow-247 and Crowe-324 appear to represent the same person because: identical dates, alternate spelling of name
posted on Crowe-324 (merged) by Robin Lee

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