Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Volume I and Volume II, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904, pp. 13-14. Lyon Co. WILLIAM LEWIS CRUMBAUGH, county judge of Lyon county, Kentucky, is a native of this state, and belongs to a family several generations of which have lived and died in Kentucky. The Crumbaughs, as the name suggests, are of German origin. Conrad Crumbaugh, Judge Crumbaugh's grandfather, was born in Maryland, of German parentage, and when a young man came with his family to Kentucky, where he passed the rest of his life. It was not until after his location here that he learned the English language. His son Eli, the Judge's father, at the time of their removal to Kentucky was a babe six months old. That was in October, 1806. Eli Crumbaugh, when he grew up, learned the potter's trade and worked at it for some years. He was engaged in farming, however, at the time of his death, which occurred when he was forty-nine years of age. Judge Crumbaugh's mother was before marriage Miss Elizabeth Townsend. Her father was of English and Scotch origin, and came from South Carolina to Kentucky about the year 1800, settling in Logan county, where she was born. Her age at death was the same as her husband's, forty-nine years. They were the parents of three children that reached adult years, our subject being the eldest of this number. William Lewis Crumbaugh was born in Logan county, Kentucky, April 25, 1835, and when he was four years old was brought by his parents to what is now Lyon county, then Caldwell county. Here he was reared on a farm. He received his education in the common schools of Eddyville and the academy at Bethlehem, and on reaching manhood engaged in farming and school teaching and buying and shipping tobacco. His activity and interest in public affairs and his popularity soon gained for him public office. He served as magistrate and sheriff two terms, was county surveyor one term, and is now serving his fourth term as county judge, having been the recipient of these official honors at the hands of the Democratic party, of which he has all his life been a stanch supporter. Judge Crumbaugh was married August 3, 1856, to Miss Virginia Lander, a daughter of John S. Lander, of Christian county, Kentucky, where she was born. They have five children living, namely: Mary, widow of the late Judge Caswell Bennett; Cleo, wife of A.C. Glass, of Crittenden county; Ruth, wife of J.T. Cooney, of New Orleans; John, at home; Sarah, wife of Joseph B. Smith, of Lyon county; and two deceased, Nellie, who died in 1903, and Nannie, who was the wife of William Mills, died in 1888. The Judge is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, and is identified with the Masonic order, his membership being with Joppa Lodge and Lyon Chapter. Crumbaugh Townsend Lander Bennett Glass Cooney Smith Mills = Lyon-KY MD SC Logan-KY Caldwell-KY Christian-KY Crittenden-KY Orleans-LA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/lyon/crumbaugh.wl.txt