Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 2nd ed., 1885
Caldwell Co.

WILLIAM B. CREWS, son of Randolph and Elizabeth (Parker) Crews, was born 
in Henry County, Mo., March 12, 1840.  Randolph Crews was born in Madison
County, Ky., in 1815.  He was a blacksmith by occupation and worked at 
his trade in Henry County, Mo., for twenty-two years.  He was killed at
his home near Calhoun, Mo., in 1862, by a band of guerrillas.  Elizabeth
Crews, subject's mother, is a daughter of Wiley Parker, a resident of 
Webster County, Ky., and is still living in Missouri.  Mr. and Mrs. Crews
were the parents of eleven children: W.B., R.Z., Elizabeth, Maud, Alfred,
Thomas, Ann E., Mary, John R., Ellen and Susan A.  William B. Crews 
received a fair education, and commenced farming for himself at the age
of twenty-one in his native county.  At the breaking out of the war he
espoused the cause of the Confederacy and enlisted in Maj. Owen's 
battalion of mounted infantry, with which he served four years, 
participating in many hard fought battles in the Western campaign.  He
received a severe wound in the left hip at Helena, Ark., in 1863, and was
also captured the same year and held a prisoner twenty months.  He was
paroled at Richmond, Va., in 1865, and immediately thereafter went back 
to Missouri, where he engaged in farming.  The following year he moved to
Kentucky, locating in Caldwell County,  on the place where he now resides,
two miles south of Princeton.  He was married June 6, 1866, to Mrs. P.F. 
Pettit, daughter of Thomas and Sarah Kevil of Caldwell County.  Mr. and
Mrs. Crews have a family of four children: Sarah Frances, James Randolph,
Susan Ann and Lucy Evaline.  By a previous marriage Mrs. Crews has one
child living, Thomas M. Pettit.  Mr. Crews operates a farm of 330 acres
and is one of the most successful business men of the community.  He and
wife are members of the Rock Spring Church, Methodist Episcopal.

Crews Parker Owen Pettit Kevil
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Henry-MO Madison-KY Webster-KY AR VA 

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