NOTE: I have no connection, no further information and am not seeking additional information. 11479 DAVIESS CO – MARTIN CROW – Crow, Stemmons, Hendrick 11479 Pike County Missouri History, Des Moines, Iowa, Mills and Company, 1883, p. 846-7. Daviess Co. MARTIN CROW. This gentleman, a native of Davis [sic] county, Kentucky, was born July 14, 1820. He is the son of James and Rhoda (Stemmons) Crow, both of whom were born in Mercer (now Boyle) county, Kentucky, and not far from the town of Danville. James Crow was born July 1, 1788, and Rhoda Stemmons March 25, 1792; they were married October 25, 1810. Their union was blessed with five children, three daughters and two sons; viz., Nancy, Harriet, Sarah, Jacob, and Martin, the subject of this sketch. James Crow died August 31, 1822, in Davis [sic] county, Kentucky, and in 1827 his widow, in company with her brother-in-law, Walter Crow, came to Pike county, making the entire trip from Kentucky here on horseback, to look at these wild western lands, and to determine whether or not she thought it best to move her family to Missouri. They finally determined to settle in Pike county, and here she lived happily with her children until 1881, when she quietly passed away. Martin Crow, our subject, was reared upon the farm upon which he now resides, and early imbibed those industrious habits which have been of incalculable advantage to him in subsequent life. His education was limited; but what he lack in the knowledge of books, was amply made up for by his acquaintance with the business ways of the world, and the knowledge he possessed of men and things. In the spring of 1850 he made an overland trip to California in company with his uncle, Walter Crow, taking out a drove of cattle intended for that far western market. He came home in 1852, returning by way of New Orleans, and entered with new zest upon the duties of a farmer. Mr. Crow was married October 18, 1855, to Miss Louisa Hendrick, daughter of the late Moses Hendrick of Bowling Green. Seven children have blessed this union; viz., Emma D., Henry C., Edward E., July S., Sally M., Ora B., and Lowell E. Crow, all of whom are living. Mr. Crow has a magnificent farm of 733 acres of land, which is in a high state of cultivation, with excellent improvements, and which is made by good management and judicious conservation to yield large returns for the labor bestowed upon it. Mr. Crow was a good manager, and an enterprising citizen, and is justly classed among the solid and substantial men of the county. SCKY Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=south-central-kentucky Barren Co Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=kybarren Sandi's Website: http://ggpublishing.tripod.com/ Sandi's Puzzlers: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gensoup/gorin/puz.html