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James B. Crews
James B. Crews, Muhlenberg county, is a native Kentuckian, born in Marion County, March 1, 1829. His father, William B. Crews, was a Virginian by birth, born in 1804; came to Kentucky with his parents when he was four years old. He grew to manhood in Washington County, where he married Frances, a daughter of John H. Mullins. She is still living, aged about seventy-two years. William B. was a farmer by occupation. He died in October, 1878. He was a son of Littleberry Crews, of Virginia, who served as a soldier with Gen. Jackson in the battle of New Orleans, and died in 1871, aged about ninety-five years. His wife was Rachel Davison, of Virginia, and died in 1856.
James B. Crews, is the eldest in a family of six children, and the labors on the farm deprived him to a certain extent of the advantages of an education, but he managed to attend school in the winter terms, and laid the foundation of a fair business education, which he has improved in later years. At the age of twenty he apprenticed himself to the carpenter's trade, which he followed for some years. In 1861 he began saw-milling, which he has pursued successively for the last twenty-four years; is now the possessor of a good sawmill and 100 acres of well improved land in Butler County.
He and wife and one daughter are members of the Methodist Church. He is also a member of the I.O.O.F. Politically he is a Democrat, but is not a politician. Mr. Crews has been twice married; first October 7, 1851, to Sarah J. Mullins, of Marion County, Ky. She was a daughter of Winston and Teresa Mullins, and died in 1864, leaving five children: Littleberry, Joseph, Frances, Isabel and Dulcinea. Mr. Crews' second marriage occurred November 1, 1873, with Elizabeth Gardner, and to them was born one daughter - Alma L.
Source: Battle, J.H., W.H. Perrin, and G.C. Kniffen. Kentucky: A History of the State. Louisville, KY: F.A. Battey, 1885. Page 901-902.
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