There is a connection between Josiah Jeter Crews and John Allen Crews. I find it hard to lay out because of the cousin and in-law marriages, but here is what I have: John B. Crews 1785-1839 Halifax was the father of: John Bullock Crews 1814-1882 m Frances Sydnor & Louisa Jane Frances Barksdale (Frances & Louisa were cousins) Josiah Jeter 1816-1873 m Judith Armistead Sydnor Elizabeth James Crews 1818-1897 m William Sydnor Emiline Randolph Crews 1821-1882 m Beverly Sydnor Elvira Western Crews 1824-1887 m Epaphroditus Sydnor William Jeter Crews 1827-1884 m Louisa Wooding Robert Dabney Crews 1829-1873 m Sallie Royster (Frances, Judith, & Beverly Sydnor were sibs) (William & Epaphroditus were brothers) (The two groups of Sydnors were second cousins) (William's first cousin Elizabeth married John Camden McCraw, see below and his first cousin William married Susanna Coleman Barksdale aunt of Louisa Jane Frances Barksdale) John Bullock Crews was the father of: Ella C. Crews 1855-? m Basley Graves Helen T. Crews 1870-? Charles Crewshaw Crews 1866-1938 m Martha Caroline Woolfolk (g- daughter of Elizabeth James Crews) Elizabeth James Crews was the mother of: Mary Ann Bullock Sydnor 1836-1871 m Richard Oscar Woolfolk Elvira Randolph Sydnor 1840-1904 m Talbot Bragg jr & Charles Ransdell Thomas Griffin Sydnor 1846-1921 m Mary Florence Cake & Eliza Nichols Eugene Leland Sydnor m Mollie Colbert & Daisy Jackson & Henrietta Robinson Georgianna Cowan Woolfolk sister of Richard Oscar Woolfolk and daughter of John Allen Woolfolk m Beverly Sydnor Crews (son of John Bullock Crews & Frances Sydnor) had the following children: Carrie Leigh Crews m Thomas Applewhite Mamie Woolfolk Crews m David B. Drewry Bessie Gorden Crews m David B. Drewry John Allen Crews John Camden McCraw m Elizabeth Sydnor: their son John Armistead McCraw m Lucy Ann Sydnor (if you need her relationship to the others, let me know) Their son Beverly Sydnor McCraw m Helen Rebecca Woolfolk, daughter of Richard Oscar Woolfolk and Mary Ann Bullock Sydnor Their children were: John Armistead McCraw m Ruth Nelson Lowe Mary R. McCraw Caroline Woolfolk McCraw m Lawrence Newbill Elizabeth Sydnor McCraw Dorothy Burwell McCraw m Robert Wilder Bugg Richard Spotswood McCraw Martha Caroline (Callie) Woolfolk and Charles Crenshaw Crews had the following children: Helen Griffin Crews m William DeLoney Hull Charles Richard Crews Charlotte Crenshaw Crews You may have to draw a chart to figure out the relationships here. I think everyone is a cousin. Anyway, I have more on these families if anyone is interested.