Crenshaw Family File No. 9. Jack Grantham, Dallas, TX compiler 1996. John Crenshaw of Roane County, TN Virginia Revolutlionary Pension Applications, Vol. 24, by John Frederick Dorman, p. 59. John Crenshaw file No. S2482. 24 Oct 1832. Roane County, TN. John Crenshaw of said county, age 74, declares he entered service in Brunswick Co., VA as a substitute for Tilman Huff in 1781 under Captain Peter Jones and was marched to Nansemond River which he crossed at Smithfield, which the enemy had burned the day before his arrival. S church standing on a hill on the S side of the town only remained. From there he proceeded to Hampton Roads where he joined Gen. Lawton under Col. Wilkins. Maj. Boice was acting as Brigade Major. The business of the troops was to guard the place. One day while on sentry he described the British Fleet in the Bay a very great distance. He called to the Officer of the Day, who was within hearing distance and who came with a spy glass, and satisfied himself that the enemy was not only in the Bay but was steering towards them and within a few hours was addressed to cross the Bay. During the time the fleet was in the Bay, a great number of British deserters came over to the American lines. He believes that at one time almost the whole of their guard came over and laid down their arms. A part of the fleet having sailed to Point of Fork, he was detached with others to go to that place under Gen. Steuben. On arrival he does not recollect in what position the enemy lay, being very much fatigued by a three days' march in very rainy weather. The public store, which appeared to be the object of the enemy, was safe. He did not continue there but half a day. A strong guard being left, he was marched to Prince Edward Court House. There an altercation took place between Generals Steuben and Lawson and the latter took the greater part of the troops of the former and marched with his whole force, except a few sick, to Little York. He being among the sick was with others discharged by Gen. Lawson. He lost his discharge in Newberry, SC nearly thirty years ago. He served nine months. He was b. and raised in Amelia Co., VA but has on record of his age. He does not recollect the date. After the War he went to Brunswick Co. VA., to Guilford, NC, lived there 2 years, then returned to Brunswick County for several years, then moved to Warren County, NC for 12 or 14 years, then to Roane County, TN. 6 May 1839. Robert A. Dabney writes from Morgan C.H. TN that John Crenshaw states he enlisted in Prince Edward Co. VA. under Captain John Morton; was transferred to Turner Bynum and during service went to the Red Banks under Gen. Nash, then to near Monmouth under another officer named Shoogar Bynum. He was in service on the Eastern Shore and in Hampton Roads. Before the Act of 1832 he applied for a pension but did not succeed. When he applied for a pension the last time he applied in Roane County, TN and concluded to apply for the Militia Service only, which was the course advised by his attorney. He gives an account of serving 2 years and 9 months under Captain Peter Jones, Colonel Wilkins and Major Bois. John Crenshaw is vastly old and very frail, can walk a little and his memory is tolerably good, but slow. John Crenshaw of Roane County, TN, private in the company of Captain Jones in the regiment of Colonel Wilkins in the Virginia line for 9 months, was placed on the East Tennessee pension roll at $30 per annum under the Act of 1832. Certificate #19165 issued 14 Aug 1835. (Note: This Rev. War Vet mentions Newberry, SC. There were 2 Crenshaws with Newberry County ties. One was Robert whose will gave his son Randolph the plantation he held "...in Union & Newberry," a tract purchased from Gordon who appears with Crenshaw in Presbyterian records in Newberry. Robert of Union/Newberry did have a son named John. This son visited SC and on that visit was given a slave by his father. John Crenshaw returned to his home in Mecklenburg County, VA with the slave and was then visited by the Mecklenburg Sheriff because John Crenshaw had violated one of Virginia's anti-slave laws by importing a slave into Virginia. The other Newberry Crenshaw was Charles who was the County Tax Collector and was called, by friends, "Mr Granger." Charles Crenshaw of Newberry was one of the founders of the school which became U. of SC. Anderson, his son, was the first graduate of U. of SC. Anderson Crenshaw is the person for whom Crenshaw County, AL is named. He served as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.) <<<<<<>>>>>> Nathaniel Crenshaw's Widow (Unity) Applies for his pension Charlotte County, VA Pension file # W6772 Nathaniel Crenshaw. 5 Jul 1838 in Charlotte County, Virginia. Unity x Crenshaw, age 78, declares she is the widow of Nathaniel Crenshaw who was a soldier of the State Line of Virginia on Continental Establishment and afterwards a soldier of the Militia. In the earlier part of 1777 he enlisted under Captain Hopkins in the Continental service for 3 years. He m. and subsequently was a volunteer in the Militia and was engaged in the Battle of Guilford where he received a severe wound in the eye. He was at the siege of Yorktown in 1781. She was m. 26 Dec 1780 to Nathaniel Crenshaw of Lunenburg County. He d. intestate 7 Nov 1793. 4 Jul 1838, Charlotte Co. VA. Ambrose Haley declares he was raised within 2 miles of old Mr. Pamplin, the father of Mrs Crenshaw, and knows Nathaniel Crenshaw m. Unity Pamplin about 26 Dec 1780. He was m. himself about the same time and shortly after Mr Crenshaw's return from the regular army. Nathaniel Crenshaw was at the Battle of Guilford and Siege of York within his own personal knowledge, being there. 15 Jul 1838 William J.B.Bedford writes from Charlotte C.H.. VA that Mrs Unity Crenshaw was m. by the publication of banns according to the rites of the Episcopal Church. The old Vestry Books of the church were registers of marriages were kept have long since been lost or destroyed. 29 Oct 1787 Virginia granted a certificate to Nathaniel Crenshaw, soldier of Infantry, Continental Line for L34.8.4 ***** Crenshaws in Mississippi Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi, (1891) Goodspeed Publishing. Abstracted: p. 622. Melville C. Priddy, planter, owes his nativity to the State of TN 10 Oct 1838. Parents were John H. and Mariah A. native Virginians. The Priddys are of Scotch-Irish ancestry and were among the oldest and most prominent families of VA. The paternal grandfather, William Priddy, and the grandmother, whose maiden name of Crenshaw, were also natives of the Old Dominion. p. 639. Charles L. Dean father of...Lydia V., wife of W.B.Crenshaw. Family located in Senatobia, MS. p. 643. Thomas J. Denman, a planter and merchant of Tallahatchie County...in 1881 he m. Miss Ada E., daughter of William land Mary Crenshaw, natives of Itawamba and Yazoo Counties, respectively, who were m. in the latter county. Both are now residents of Tallahatchie County where Mr. Crenshaw is a planter. He was a soldier in the Confederate Army. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Church. <<<<>>>> Micajah Crenshaw in South Carolina Index to SC Land Grants 1784-1800. Ed. Jackson, Teeples and Schaefermeyer. Land Grants are located in Department of Archives and History in Columbia, SC. & are on microfilm in some libraries. Micajah Crenshaw (spelled Crinshaw) page No. 661, Volume 39, Class 02, land grant No. LG1791 (issued in 1791). -----oooOooo----- Thomas Crenshaw and Rebecca Crenshaw Giles County, TN, Rebecca m. Thomas Crenshaw September Term 1815 of Giles Court. Ordered that Letters of Administration of the Estate of Thomas Crenshaw issue to Rebeccah Crenshaw, she having been qualified and given bond and security according to law. The administratrix of the estate of Thomas Crenshaw, deceased returned an inventory of said estate, which is ordered to be recorded. Ordered that Joseph Dickson be appointed overseer of the new road from where it turns off of the Huntsvillle road near Chambers' to where intersects the old road at Solomon Asbells and that he have the direction of the following hands to work on said road ----------------- Sarah Catherine Sherrill granddaughter of Thompson Crenshaw Taken from a published piece written by Katy Lynn (Burns) Tyler. Not all copied here. "Samuel Leroy O'Bryant (10 Oct 1850---27 Aug 1913), called 'Lee,' arrived in Tallahatchie County after the Civil War. At church one Sunday he met Sarah Catherine Sherrill and they fell in love at first sight. 'There's the man I'm going to marry' she said to herself, and he remembered saying, 'That's my sweetheart sure.' They married shortly afterward, on 8 April 1875. Brilliant and beautiful, she was to enter University but chose to marry, 'the wild young Irishman as her father called him. She was a daughter of Dr. Alva Thompson Sherrill and Mary Jane Crenshaw whose father was Dr. Robert T. Crenshaw (error here). Sarah Catherine, called 'Kate' and 'Kitty' was named for her grandfather's sister, Catherine Sherrill, also called 'Kate' who narrowly escaped death on 21 Jul 1776 while running to warn the fort of an Indian attack. Others outside the fort was killed. She was pulled over the wall to safety by Captain John Sevier and later married him, becoming First Lady of Tennessee when he became that State's first Governor. "Samuel Leroy moved his young family to Yalobusha County before 1900. He became a Methodist minister as did an older brother, William Joel O'Bryant 1839-1931. He preached at Salem Church, living in that community for a number of years. He also 'rode circuit.' Kate, expert in many fields, made white shirts from ruffled fronts for him and would starch and iron fourteen at a time when he came in from circuit. They were accustomed to hardship and well acquainted with grief, losing five children, two in infancy, two small sons from malaria, and a lovely daughter Wilkie, of an obscure malady at the age of nineteen. But they persevered. Their six remaining children reached adulthood, loving and loyal to their parents and to each other, a family remembered for their gentle manner, their chuckles and their smiles." More information and pedigree follows and is summarized here. Samuel Leroy and Sarah Catherine are buried in Salem Cemetery flanked by four of their children. The six who reached adulthood were: Effie Estelle, William Arnold, Cora Elizabeth, Joel Maurice, Beulah Crenshaw, John Arthur, -----oooooo----- William Randolph Crenshaw CSA Military Record From research of Sally Adams Lee. Compiled Military Service Records for Confederate Army Volunteers of Mississippi, The National Archives, 1956, Index M232, Records Microfilm M269, Roll 092 Dates and Events: 15 May 1862 Enlisted at Grenada, MS by Major Ward for 3 years in Captain J.M. McLendon's Co. (No.3) (B) Ward's Battalion, Light Artillery as a private. Archives listing: Co. C, 14 Batt'n Miss L Art'y 15 May - 31 Aug 1862 Muster Roll present Sept-Oct 1862 Muster Roll absent sick May-Dec 1862 Muster Roll absent without leave. Remarks: Paroled prisoner. Taken at Ripley. Supposed at home. May -June 1863 Muster Roll present as a 3 van sergeant June-Oct 1863 Station: Enterprise, MS. Absent without leave since 24 Aug 1863 4 Jul 1863 Captured at Vicksburg 7 Jul 1863 W.R.Crenshaw signed a statement not to take up arms against the United States again. (A note by Sally Lee: His handwriting was very nice, very clear and very strong.) Nov-Dec 1863 Muster Roll: Absent. Note: One commissioned officer and 22 enlisted men were declared exchanged by orders of Lt. Gen Polk 26 Dec 1863. Two enlisted men present were not paroled at Vicksburg. The other members of the company were not captured Vicksburg and are now on duty with Gen'l Chalmers where they will be accounted for. Absemt without leave 22 Aug 1863 8 Jan 1864 Exchanged at Vicksburg 10 Jan - 30 June 1864 Muster roll: absent 5 Gen. Sgt. Last pd. 31 Aug 1862 Remarks: paroled prisoner at parole camp 1 Apr 1864 W.R.Crenshaw's name appears on a list of officers and men of Vicksburg captured who have reported in Parole Camp at Dempolis AL. List not dated. <<<<>>> Randolph Crenshaw 1820 census Newberry County, SC Randall Crenshaw, 1 male 10<, 1 male 26<45, 1 female 26<45, 3 slaves. ********* 1800 census South Carolina All Crenshaw listings p. 234 Union Dist. Nathan Crenshaw 2 males 10<, 1 male 10>16, 1 male 26>45, 1 female 26>45 p. 68 Newberry Dist. Nathan Crenshaw 1 male 10<, 1 male 26>45, 2 females 10<, 1 female 16>26 p.68 Newberry Dist. Randolph 2 males 16>26, p. 229 Union Dist. Robert 2 males 16>26, 1 male 45>, all other free persons not taxed 9 p. 229 Union Dist. Robert 1 male 16>26, 1 female 10<, 1 female 10>16, 4 free persons not taxed p. 230 Union Dist. Stephen 1 male 10<, 1 male 26>45, 1 female 16>26, 1 other free person not taxed, 2 slaves ---------------- 1860 census Tallahatchie County, MS Enumerated on 20 July 1860 by H.L.White. dwelling 297, family 297 William R. Crenshaw age 22 farmer b. MS Mary J. age 21 b. MS (Mary Jane Bull) Mary E. age 1 b. MS Louisa R. Pickett age 41 b. MS (Louisa Stevens Pickett mother of Mary Jane Bull. Sallie age 10 b. MS William age 8, b. MS Louisa age 6, b. MS dwelling 298, family 298 Arthur C. Fonda age 40, farmer b. NY Catherine age 25 b. MS Charles N. age 10 b. MS Marion age 6 b. MS James Anna female age 5 b. MS Aleda C. age 3 b. MS Alice age 4 months b. MS Nancy E. age 26 b. MS Mary age 9 b. John age 5 William F. age 2 -----ooOoo---- James Bull Crenshaw FamGrpSht James Bull Crenshaw, b. 24 June 1879, d. 9 Dec 1923, m. 22 Dec 1909 to Cumi Glen Orrell. Parents of J.B.Crenshaw were William Randolph Crenshaw and Mary Jane Bull. Cumi Glen Orrell, b. 25 Dec 1886, d. 22 June 1962 Children: 1. James Lewis Crenshaw 2. Jane Metts Crenshaw b 28 May 1912, m. 18 Jul 1934 to Wm, David Lord 3. Richard Langford Crenshaw 4. Glen Bull Crenshaw 5. Martha Rivers Crenshaw 6. John Douglas Crenshaw -------------------- Crenshaws in SC 1810 Taken from index to 1810 census of SC. Archibald Crenshaw - Newberry Fortune Crenshaw - Pendleton Graef Crenshaw - Union James Crenshaw - Union Pleasant Crenshaw - Pendleton Robert - Union Robert - Union Stephen - Edgefield (More on him in File 8, page 11) Randolph - Newberry ooooooo Mary Jane Crenshaw daughter of Thompson Crenshaw Yalobusha County MS Marriage Records, by Briscoe & Jenkins, p. 184 Sherrill, A.T. m. Mary J. Crenshaw 24 Oct 1850 by James M. Hampton. Mary J. was the only daughter of Thompson Crenshaw and his sole wife Mary Paine Brookes. <<<<>>>> FamGrpSht Alva Thompson Sherrill Alva Thompson Sherrill, b. TN son of Samuel Brislin Sherrill land Mary Ann Gilmer. Wife was Mary Jane Crenshaw, daughter of Thompson Crenshaw and Mary P. Brookes (Brooks). Children: 1. Mary Frances Sherrill b. 9 Aug 1853, m. A.M.Pressgrove 2. Lily Ligon Sherrill b. 27 Sep 1868, d. Sep 1902, m. 1887 to James Canterbury 3. Alice Thompson Sherrill, b. 30 Mar 1871, m. 1890 W.T. Mullen 4. Lena Brooks Sherrill, b. 5 Mar 1874, m. 12 Sep 1894 to William J. Isbell Note: Samuel B. Sherrill witnessed a deed in Wayne County, TN on 20 June 1826. ----------------- Randolph Crenshaw in Wayne Co. TN Wayne County, TN Abstracts of Deed Records 1839-1853 by James A. Gray has the abstract of a deed 13 Jan 1845 from Record Book E, p. 549. Not all copied here. Brinkley Hopson of Lauderdale County, AL and Mary Duncan of Wayne Co. shows that Hopson and Mary Duncan intended to marry and that Duncan owned land which lay on Big Cypress Creek in Wayne County. That Big Cypress property had been granted to William Duncan (Grant 19593) ref to an entry of Randolph Crenshaw for 61 acres, and mentions a 50a tract entered as Entry No. 17 by Wm Duncan. ******************* Thomas Crenshaw of Pamunkey Neck Journals of The House of Burgesses, MCMXIII, At the session of the House held in Williamsburg on Thursday 4 September 1701 the matters discussed were: A petition of Anne Blathwaite for an allowance for sweeping the room where the Burgess sit and other services and she was allowed the sum of five hundred pounds of tobacco and casques. A petition of William Randolph for an allowance for removing a trunk and chest and 16 pounds of candles. The petition of Edward Huckstep, Philip Williams, and James Johnson that they live within the bounds of the land laid out for Pamunkey Indians. That a committee be appointed to examine claims and titles to lands in Pamunkey Neck The committee consider the petition of Edmund Jennings, Esquire claiming land on Herring Creek in Pamunkey Neck. Resolved that it is the opinion of this House that patents be issued for the following in Pamunkey Neck: (33 names were listed, some shown below) John Oliver 146a James Adams 437a Thomas Carr 546a Richard Littlepage 2367a John King 211a Robert Davis 208a Wm. Maybank 105a John Thompson 537a Thomas Cranshaw 150a James Edwards 854a James Dabony 1000a Lewis Davis 320a Andrew Mckalister 86a Henry Fox 580a George Dabony 293a Matthew Mullen 268 William Anderson and Dorothy his wife 179a Nicholas Merryweather 459a Sarah Dabony 179a Resolved that it is the opinion of this house that patents be issued for the same. <<<>>> Randolph Crenshaw in Newberry Dist. SC Newberry County Estate Records. A sale on 16 Nov 1818 lists as purchasers Randolph Crenshaw, A.W.Thompson, Simon Ashford, Lucy Liles, Ephraim Liles, James Ashford and others. A sale held 19 Aug 1814 lists Randolph Crenshaw, William Darby, James Bonds and others. This was estate of William Bonds. Fanny Bonds was listed as Adm. ******** Crenshaw in Fauquier County, VA Fauquier County, VA Marriage Bonds, lists: Robert Crenshaw m. Dalley Abell 3 Dec 1803. She is shown as the daughter of Ephraim Abell. (Robert was a son of Robert, Sr. This Robert Crenshaw had a son named Ephriam A. Crenshaw.) Randolph Crenshaw m. Susanna Stringfellow 10 Nov 1802. She is listed as a daughter of Robert Stringfellow. (Randolph is a younger brother of Robert Crenshaw, shown on this list.) <<<<<<>>>>>> Robert Crenshaw, Jr. of SC Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives, Volume IV 1791-1815, by N.Louise Bailey. p.135 ROBERT CRENSHAW, JR. 1775-1816 Robert Crenshaw b. 8 Jul 1775 in VA, was the son of Robert Crenshaw (d.1811?) and Elizabeth Beufort. His family moved to Union County after the Am. Rev. Crenshaw owned a plantation known as Jemmer Sons, at least two other tracts, and a gristmill, sawmill and distillery--all in Union District. According to an inventory of his estate, he owned one slave. Elected to the House, he represented Union in the Twentieth (1812-1813) and Twenty-first (1814-1815) General Assemblies. While in the House, Crenshaw served on the following committees: roads, bridges, and ferries (1812-1813); privileges and elections (1812-1813); and pensions (1814-1815). Locally, he was a road commissioner (1811). On 1 December 1802, he wed Dorothy Abell, daughter of Ephraim Abell of Fauquier County, Virginia. They were the parents of one son, Ephraim Abell Crenshaw. Robert Crenshaw d. lsometime between 8 Feb 1816 when he signed his will and 10 Feb 1816 when an inventory was taken. Given as source documents on Robert were the Assembly Records for 20th and 21th Sessions and also House Committee Book; Mrs W. Bedford Moore, Jr. and Mrs Wyatt A. Taylor, "Family Records: Ann Pamela Cunningham Chapter DAR Columbia, SC 1457-1946." and SC Statutes 9:456; Union County Probate Records, box 6, pkg. 32 Union County Wills, Book A. 269-271; Book B 36-37. -----ooooOoooo----- Thompson Crenshaw in Alabama Court Records Alabama Records, Vol 217. Lauderdale County, compiled by P.J.Ganrud, p.23 & 24. From the Volume Inventory Record A2 1835-1838, Lauderdale County, AL. an item designated as p. 289 which states that: "State of Mississippi, Yalobusha County, Nov. 14 1837. Before John Boon, J.P., Boling C. Phillipse, Alex Barksdale, Thompson Crenshaw and Robert Brooks swore to inventory the property of Joseph L.D. Smith, deceased. ********* William M. Crenshaw in Lauderdale Co. AL In the Marriages of Lauderdale County, AL, p. 114 is listed the marriage of William M. Crenshaw to E.A.Turbeville. The date is not shown but the item is found on a page which lists other marriages dated November 1835 to January 1836, with a date in the first week of December 1835 being most likely. *********** Randolph Crenshaw in Wayne County, Tn IN a volume of records filed in Lauderdale County, AL was a deed (Book 2, p. 226) 22 Sep 1824 Wayne Co. TN. Randolph Crenshaw deeds a slave to John Austin. Lauderdale County lies alongside Wayne County on it south. ******** Jesse Simmes Crenshaw in Alabama A query from Hazel Crenshaw Garrett of Route 4, Box 268A in Louisville, MS 39339. "My gr-gr-grandfather was Jesse Simmes Crenshaw who was b. 1820 in AL according to census records. He first appears in Pickens County AL in the 1850 census with his wife's parents, Thomas and Frances Henderson. They later moved to Choctow County, MS & remained there until his d. in 1908. I have no other knowledge of the family. I thought his mother's maiden name might have been Simmes and his father's name might have been William since his first son was named William Thomas. I have additional information on his seven children."