7. Daniel Crume, born 27 January 1758,55 probably in Frederick County, Virginia; died (between 1822 and 1830?) or (after 1827 in Decatur County, Indiana?) or (in 1830 near Greensburg, Decatur County, Indiana?). He was married, first, before 10 April 1789, in Virginia, to Mary56 (Dodson?) who died after 5 June 1794.57 He was married, second, on 12 January 1801 in Washington County, Kentucky, to Hannah (Springer) Askins, widow of William Askins (Askin or Askrew).58 She was born 7 June 1769. Daniel Crume had 500 acres on Beech Fork in present-day Nelson County, Kentucky, surveyed on 27 May 1780.59 The 1783 tax list shows Daniel Crume in Shenandoah County, Virginia.60 In 1789 Daniel Crume and wife Mary, of Nelson County, then part of Virginia, sold land in present-day Nelson County, Kentucky to Richard Parker. The 166 2/3 acres sold for £40 and 10 shillings were part of Daniel’s 500-acre survey on Beech Fork, “two miles before the mouth of Chaplins fork.”61. The 1792 tax list of Washington County, Kentucky shows that Daniel Crume had five horses, seventeen cattle and 233 acres of land. In 1794 Daniel and Mary sold the land on the Beech Fork where he lived to Robert Hughs.62 Daniel, like many other men in Washington County, Kentucky, tried to avoid service in local militias against the Indians.
“Daniel Crooms of Capt. Gilkey’s Co. complains that he had untimely notice & further that he is unfit for service...” The court cleared him of the charge of delinquency, but rejected his request for an exemption.63 At another court session, “Daniel Crooms of Capt. Mock’s Co. charged for not performing a tour of Duty, being present, says he has been lame for many years.” His brother-in-law, Abraham Birkett (Birkhead) vouched for him and Daniel was cleared of the present charge, but ordered to serve the next tour.64 Again charged with delinquency from Capt. Mock’s Co., the trial was first delayed because no witnesses showed up.65 When the trial was rescheduled, Daniel did not appear, but witnesses against him did, and he was fined 40 shillings. Apparently this was on 10 May 1794.66 In 1797 Daniel paid his father Philip one shilling for 68 acres on the waters of Sunfish Creek, a branch of the Beech Fork, in Nelson County. This was part of Philip’s 1,000 acres.67 In 1804 Daniel sold land in Nelson County to John Humphrey.68 The next year Daniel sold 51 acres on Hog Run, a branch of Beech Fork, to Thomas Elliston for £45.69 By 1806 when Daniel and his second wife Hannah sold 233 acres on Beech Fork in Washington County, they had moved to Butler County, Ohio.70 Daniel took up land in Clay Township,71 Dearborn County, Indiana, in 1818.72 His house was an early Methodist preaching place and Daniel, himself, was a local preacher in Washington Township.73 In about 1818 the Methodists built a log meeting house.74 Daniel was enumerated in the 1820 census of Dearborn County, as head of a household of eight.75 In 1821 Daniel bought land in Clinton Township, Decatur County, Indiana, and in the next year’s county elections he was a candidate for associate judge.76 He and his wife Hannah sold the land in Decatur County on 20 March 1827 to Phillip Harrell.77 She signed the deed. It’s the last record we have of the couple and we don’t know where they moved or when they died. Family tradition has it that Daniel held some public office and got into trouble for forgery.78 His grandsons Josiah and Francis Marion Crume served from Dearborn County in the Civil War.79 Two other grandsons, Andrew Jackson Crume and George Washington Crume, died in that war.
http://www.onelibrary.com/genealogy/reports/Crume-Family-By-Rick-Crume-1995.pdf
