John Finley Crow is the son of Benjamin Crow and Ann Gregg. Benjamin is the son of Walter Crow and Ann Miller. Ann Gregg is the daughter of Robert Gregg Sr. and the sister of Robert Gregg Jr.
My maternal grandfather, Robert Gragg was from the county dury [Derry?] i the North of Ireland. He emigrated a single man to the colony of Virginia and married into a respectible family by the name of Harrison and settled in the neighborhood of Sta[u]nton, Augusta County. He was a respectible farmer, a member of the Presbyterian Church. The father of seven sons and five daughters. His eldest son, William, fell about the close of the Revolutionary War in the battle with the Indians at the mouth of the Kenhaws.
His sons - Thomas, Henry, Robert, Samue, after having married, moved into my fathers neighborhood in Tennessee. In a few years they were followed by their father with his two houngest sons - John and William. The old gentleman purchased a fine tract of land and for a number of years lived as a patriarch, surrounded by six sons and four daughters.
I had four brothers and six sisters, the two eldest, Elizabeth (Betsey) and Walter were born in Virginia. Ann, myself, Mary (Polly), Lydia, Robert, Benjamin, Nancy and James Rankin in Tennessee and Rachel in Missouri. Elizabeth, Walter, and Ann married in Tennessee. Elizabeth married Thomas McLaughlin, Walter married Margaret Hutchinson, and Ann married James McLaughlin, brother to Thomas.
When my father moved to Missouri they all want with him and settled in the same neighborhood, in a beautiful cove called Bellevue. There my sister Mary (Polly) married a man by the name of Curtis Morris. Robert and Benjamin were both married after I left Mo. Robert married Elizabeth Brown. Benjamin married Nancy Daniels. My sister Nancy married a cousin Thomas Gragg, son of Robert Gragg, Jr.
