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Title: A history of northeast Missouri
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Williams, Walter, 1864- , ed
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Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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e,born October 20, 1908. Zach Crews. Nearly sixty years of residence in Howard countyhave given Mr. Zach Crews rank as one of the oldest living citizensof his vicinity. In Moniteau township he has long enjoyed prestige asan able farmer and a man of influence in community affairs. Born in Madison county, Kentucky, March 16, 1841. Mr. Crewsrepresents an old and prominent family. His great-grandfather, DavidCrews, was born in England, whence he came to America in time toparticipate in the Revolution on the American side. During thatpioneer era of the nations history he moved to the Kentucky region,where he had to build a blockhouse to protect his family from theIndians. His son David, Jr., married Sallie Trible, whose father wasa noted Baptist preacher who brought the gospel to the frontier set-tlements of Kentucky. IMilton Crews, the father of Mr. Zach Crews,was a native of )\Iadison county, and married Rhoda Fox. who wasborn in the same locality. They came to IMissouri in 1842, but the
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HISTORY OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI 1873 father died some years later, and the widowed mother with her chil-dren then returned to Kentucky, where she remained until 1854, whenthe family again became domiciled in Howard county, which has beenthe home of Zach Crews from that year to the present time. The chil-dren in the family were named as follows: Samuel, deceased; Isham;Richard; Mary J., deceased; Sallie A.; Zach; Milton and W. P.The mother attained the age of eighty, having fulfilled a long and use-ful life and reared her children to useful and honorable manhood andwomanhood. Zach Crews spent his early life partly in Kentucky and partly inMissouri. He obtained a fair amoiuit of schooling, but best of all earlylearned how to work and to live honorably with all men. During hisearly career he had some mercantile experience, but most of his lifehas been spent as a farmer, and in that line has been his best success. When he was twenty-two he married )\Iiss Matilda Means, daughterof James Mean

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