Excerpted from '1876 HISTORY OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS', by John Carroll Power, published by Edwin A. Wilson & Co., Springfield, Illinois
CROWL, JOSEPH, was born Sept. 3, 1794, in Shepherdstown, Va. He was a soldier from Maryland in the war of 1812, and was married Jan. 1, 1817, in Washington county, Md., to Mary A. Dillihunt, who was born Feb. 22, 1804, in Kent county, Md. They had ten children in Washington county, Md., three of whom died young. They moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1834, at Springfield, and the next spring moved to what is now Cooper township, south of the Sangamon river, where they had five children. Joseph Crowl died Sept. 8, 1865, in Sangamon county, and his widow now (1874) resides on the farm where they settled in 1835. It is one and a half miles north of Berry station, or Clarksville.
Excerpted from '1876 HISTORY OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS', by John Carroll Power, published by Edwin A. Wilson & Co., Springfield, Illinois
CROWL, JOSEPH, was born Sept. 3, 1794, in Shepherdstown, Va. He was a soldier from Maryland in the war of 1812, and was married Jan. 1, 1817, in Washington county, Md., to Mary A. Dillihunt, who was born Feb. 22, 1804, in Kent county, Md. They had ten children in Washington county, Md., three of whom died young. They moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1834, at Springfield, and the next spring moved to what is now Cooper township, south of the Sangamon river, where they had five children. Joseph Crowl died Sept. 8, 1865, in Sangamon county, and his widow now (1874) resides on the farm where they settled in 1835. It is one and a half miles north of Berry station, or Clarksville.
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Mordecai Crowl
1820–1899
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Upton Crowl
1822–1872
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Cornelia Crowl Hussey
1823–1863
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Joseph Franklin Crowl
1826–1909
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Robert FT Crowl
1829–1843
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Miranda Crowl Taylor
1831–1912
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Van Bassatt Crowl
1836–1906
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Vinton Crowl
1838–1852
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Helen Crowl Morris
1840–1921
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Maria A Crowl Carper
1843–1884
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William H Crowl
1845–1900
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