Pete and Darrell: Here is what I have on Andrew Jackson CREWS. These are two old notes from the Prodigy bb in 1993. Jo joblack@prodigy.net TIME: 08/05 7:50 AM TO: ALL FROM: CAROLE PALMER (JMFS17A) SUBJECT: CREWS I saw a little book called "Rockcastle Roots" by John Lair today. And guess what? There were CREWS in Rockcastle Co KY. This book doesn't have good documentation but it has some interesting family chapters nevertheless and might give someone a jumpstart on their CREWS ancestry. Here is the CREWS chapter, which is titled CREWS/CRUIZE: "Several years ago when I acquired the old CREWS Ferry property, I made an attempt to discover something of the history of the CREWS family but was never able to learn much concerning them. I understand that possibly the first of the name came to America was from Germany and spelled his name CRUSS or CRUSE. He settled in Pennsylvania in a place later known as CREWS Valley - CREWS being the English spelling of his name. At an unknown date, he settled in Boonesborough where he married an Indian woman and raised a son, Andrew Jackson CREWS, who became a close friend of Greene CLAY, son of Cassius M. CLAY, a controversial figure in American history. Andrew Jackson CREWS, for some reason now unknown, was raised by a family by the name of SHEARER. He married Zobina CHRISTOPHER in 1838 in Madison Co KY and moved from there to Rockcastle County before 1850. Their children were: Haden, Miram, Margaret, Kate, Belle, John, Cassius Marcellus, Ari, Ida, Andrew, Whitfield, Jenny and Richard. Haden, the eldest, was a college man, teacher and poet. It is remembered in the family that he wrote poems for children, one of them being a favorite in earlier school books. 'Little drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land. Little words of kindness, little deeds of love Make this earth an Eden like to that above.' Haden CREWS enlisted in the Civil War, contracted measles that settled on his lungs and was sent home to die. Cassius Marcellus CREWS was born in 1851 in a house located at the juncture of Garrard, Madison and Rockcastle Counties. He married Mary Francis CROUCHER, born 1854, in Rockcastle County. She was descended from a circuit-riding preacher named CROUCHER, who went to Virginia and met and married a Miss FLOWERS, from England, and brought her back to Rockcastle Co. He had a daughter captured by the Indians and kept by them some time before being recaptured and brought back home. She could not adjust to civilized life and later returned to the tribe and married an Indian. It is possible that the two CREWS men involved in the suit at Boonesborough were David and Thomas CREWS, as the census report of 1790 lists them as living in Madison Co. One of them is said to have been a very wealthy man, who had left the equivalent of $250,000 in the Bank of England. A descendant of the family made three trips to England in an attempt to collect the money said to have been deposited. He was told by the bank that it would bankrupt the institution to pay the debt with accrued interest, but that it would be paid if the proper papers could be produced, which apparently could not be done. My interest in the CREWS family centers largely around James CREWS, 1807-1862, who built and for many years operated CREWS Ferry on Rockcastle River above Lamero, KY and just below the mouth of Horse Lick Creek. This ferry serviced the Madison Branch of the Wilderness Road, known at the time as Old State Road, over which there was an established stage coach route for a number of years. CREWS also operated a tavern at his stand and in addition to a stable to take care of the horses for the stage coach line and horseback travelers, also maintained stock pens for the overnight accommodation of livestock and poultry being driven to southern markets over the Old State Road, which furnished an outlet for the livestock and produce of much of the Blue Grass region. Elsewhere [in "Rockcastle Recollections" p. 43-44] will be found more about James CREWS and his CREWS Ferry. There was another and larger ferry of the same name in Madison County, probably owned and operated by David CREWS. I have not been able to trace the immediate ancestors of James CREWS and his brother, who is said to have been at one time interested with him in the operation of the ferry. A James CREWS, whether this man or another, married Jalia LOVINS, whose family lived around Lamero. Their daughter married an early Rockcastle settler, Charles REDD, who built and occupied the big house near Mt. Vernon, later owned by Ernest BULLOCK. Their daughter, Jalia REDD, married a Dr. COOPER, who established practice in Livingston KY and whose office I visited often as a child. His brother-in-law, Dr. REDD, who grew up around Mt. Vernon, was a surgeon with the Seventh Cavalry, a part of which met its fate with its commander, Lt. Col. George A. CUSTER, at the Little Big Horn. There is a story, as yet unauthenticated, of how Dr. REDD escaped being present at this battle and sharing the fate of his comrades. I recall that Dr. REDD had sent home various mementoes such as bows and arrows, an Indian headdress and buckskin jacket, which Dr. COOPER kept on display in his office. Another possible connection with the CREWS family was that my wife's grand- father was in some way related to them and used to make visits to them in both Rockcastle and Madison Counties. Many older members of the CREWS family lived in Madison County and many are buried in the old cemetery at Scaffold Cane. I understand that a number of the family name also settled in Jackson Co but have never been able to find from which group James CREWS was descended." TIME: 08/10 5:18 PM TO: PATRICIA RAY (STXM21A) FROM: CAROLE PALMER (JMFS17A) SUBJECT: CREWS "Rockcastle Recollections" is another book by the same author. I don't have it and am not familiar with it. I'll keep my eyes open and if I see it will check that reference. The one I have is "Rockcastle Memories" which I guess is Vol. II. Some MO-born CREWS come back to Webster Co KY and I find them living with my CREWS/MARKS families. These probably tie in but darned if I can figure it out either. I will look them over again. (end of notes, Jo)