John Crowley (shown as "Croley" on his headstone) was born in Tennessee on 14 May 1814, to Samuel "Big Sam" Crowley and his second wife Celia Mayo. He was Sam and Celia's second child, and their first son. Samuel had settled in Claiborn County, in the north-east corner of Tennessee, as a young man, with his father and his family, about 1805. Their settlement was close to the "Wilderness Road", the route through the Cumberland Gap leading from Virginia/North Carolina into Kentucky. They came from Henry Co., Virginia. Samuel married John's mother Celia Mayo in Tennessee, in 1811.
They remained in Tennessee only a short time - long enough for John's father Samuel to join three expeditions with the Tennessee militia, during the war of 1812; the first, in 1812 under Andrew Jackson, to Natchez, Mississippi, to defend against the British who were preparing to attack New Orleans, and again in 1813, Under Jackson against the Red Stick Creek Indians in Alabama, ending at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. The third with General Nathaniel Taylor's campaign to Mobile Alabama.
Sometime shortly after John was born, Samuel and Celia moved their young family to what today is Clay County, in western Missouri. This was about 1815, just a few years after the Lewis and Clark expedition had returned from their exploration of the new American territory. Although much of the territory had previously been designated as reservation land for Indian tribes that had been displaced from Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana in earlier years, and the land was not yet officially open for settlement (it would not be open for legal settlement until 1818), there were already many settlers moving to the territory. The group that traveled to Missouri included Samuel's parents, James Crowley and Mary (McCain) Crowley, and the rest of James and Mary's family, as well as Samuel and Celia's infant son John Crowley. At the time, the route to Missouri from Tennessee involved traveling by flat boat down the Clinch River to the Tennessee River, along to the Ohio, then to the Mississippi, then on to Saint Louis. From there, up the Missouri River Valley, on foot or via keelboat, or both, to what was then Ray County, near present-day Kansas City, where most of the family first settled.
In 1826, John's mother Celia died, and his father Samuel remarried, in Clay County, to Nancy Ann Loe, daughter of Thomas Loe and Francis "Fanny" (Nelson) Loe (many Loe's, Nelsons and Mayos had accompanied the Crowleys on their migration from Virginia to Tennessee, and then from Tennessee to Missouri).
On May 27, 1835, John Crowley married Nancy Ann Loe's younger sister Julia Ann Loe in Howard County, Missouri. Julia was born in Howard county. in 1818 (Nancy Ann Loe was born in 1805). John and Julia settled in Scotland County, where they raised their family. John Crowley probably already had land in Scotland County at the time they settled there. John was a farmer; at one time he owned as much as 230 acres of farmland.
John and Julia had seven children. Two of their children, Mary Thankful and Nancy Catherine, the second and third children, died very young, two days apart, in August 1841, probably during an outbreak of smallpox or diphtheria. The remaining five children all lived well into adulthood.
Julia died on 29 Apr, 1859, leaving John with a 3-year-old, a 6-year-old, and a 9-year-old to raise (probably with the help of the two older daughters, Francis (Fanny) and Nancy).
John Crowley remarried, to Sarah Elizabeth (Cook) Tillott, on 6 Oct., 1865. They had five more children, all of whom lived to very old age; one daughter, Susan Adeline (Croley) Hunt, lived to age 106, dying in 1973 in Scotland County.
John Crowley died 14 Feb 1889. He was 75 years old.
They remained in Tennessee only a short time - long enough for John's father Samuel to join three expeditions with the Tennessee militia, during the war of 1812; the first, in 1812 under Andrew Jackson, to Natchez, Mississippi, to defend against the British who were preparing to attack New Orleans, and again in 1813, Under Jackson against the Red Stick Creek Indians in Alabama, ending at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. The third with General Nathaniel Taylor's campaign to Mobile Alabama.
Sometime shortly after John was born, Samuel and Celia moved their young family to what today is Clay County, in western Missouri. This was about 1815, just a few years after the Lewis and Clark expedition had returned from their exploration of the new American territory. Although much of the territory had previously been designated as reservation land for Indian tribes that had been displaced from Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana in earlier years, and the land was not yet officially open for settlement (it would not be open for legal settlement until 1818), there were already many settlers moving to the territory. The group that traveled to Missouri included Samuel's parents, James Crowley and Mary (McCain) Crowley, and the rest of James and Mary's family, as well as Samuel and Celia's infant son John Crowley. At the time, the route to Missouri from Tennessee involved traveling by flat boat down the Clinch River to the Tennessee River, along to the Ohio, then to the Mississippi, then on to Saint Louis. From there, up the Missouri River Valley, on foot or via keelboat, or both, to what was then Ray County, near present-day Kansas City, where most of the family first settled.
In 1826, John's mother Celia died, and his father Samuel remarried, in Clay County, to Nancy Ann Loe, daughter of Thomas Loe and Francis "Fanny" (Nelson) Loe (many Loe's, Nelsons and Mayos had accompanied the Crowleys on their migration from Virginia to Tennessee, and then from Tennessee to Missouri).
On May 27, 1835, John Crowley married Nancy Ann Loe's younger sister Julia Ann Loe in Howard County, Missouri. Julia was born in Howard county. in 1818 (Nancy Ann Loe was born in 1805). John and Julia settled in Scotland County, where they raised their family. John Crowley probably already had land in Scotland County at the time they settled there. John was a farmer; at one time he owned as much as 230 acres of farmland.
John and Julia had seven children. Two of their children, Mary Thankful and Nancy Catherine, the second and third children, died very young, two days apart, in August 1841, probably during an outbreak of smallpox or diphtheria. The remaining five children all lived well into adulthood.
Julia died on 29 Apr, 1859, leaving John with a 3-year-old, a 6-year-old, and a 9-year-old to raise (probably with the help of the two older daughters, Francis (Fanny) and Nancy).
John Crowley remarried, to Sarah Elizabeth (Cook) Tillott, on 6 Oct., 1865. They had five more children, all of whom lived to very old age; one daughter, Susan Adeline (Croley) Hunt, lived to age 106, dying in 1973 in Scotland County.
John Crowley died 14 Feb 1889. He was 75 years old.
John Crowley (shown as "Croley" on his headstone) was born in Tennessee on 14 May 1814, to Samuel "Big Sam" Crowley and his second wife Celia Mayo. He was Sam and Celia's second child, and their first son. Samuel had settled in Claiborn County, in the north-east corner of Tennessee, as a young man, with his father and his family, about 1805. Their settlement was close to the "Wilderness Road", the route through the Cumberland Gap leading from Virginia/North Carolina into Kentucky. They came from Henry Co., Virginia. Samuel married John's mother Celia Mayo in Tennessee, in 1811.
They remained in Tennessee only a short time - long enough for John's father Samuel to join three expeditions with the Tennessee militia, during the war of 1812; the first, in 1812 under Andrew Jackson, to Natchez, Mississippi, to defend against the British who were preparing to attack New Orleans, and again in 1813, Under Jackson against the Red Stick Creek Indians in Alabama, ending at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. The third with General Nathaniel Taylor's campaign to Mobile Alabama.
Sometime shortly after John was born, Samuel and Celia moved their young family to what today is Clay County, in western Missouri. This was about 1815, just a few years after the Lewis and Clark expedition had returned from their exploration of the new American territory. Although much of the territory had previously been designated as reservation land for Indian tribes that had been displaced from Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana in earlier years, and the land was not yet officially open for settlement (it would not be open for legal settlement until 1818), there were already many settlers moving to the territory. The group that traveled to Missouri included Samuel's parents, James Crowley and Mary (McCain) Crowley, and the rest of James and Mary's family, as well as Samuel and Celia's infant son John Crowley. At the time, the route to Missouri from Tennessee involved traveling by flat boat down the Clinch River to the Tennessee River, along to the Ohio, then to the Mississippi, then on to Saint Louis. From there, up the Missouri River Valley, on foot or via keelboat, or both, to what was then Ray County, near present-day Kansas City, where most of the family first settled.
In 1826, John's mother Celia died, and his father Samuel remarried, in Clay County, to Nancy Ann Loe, daughter of Thomas Loe and Francis "Fanny" (Nelson) Loe (many Loe's, Nelsons and Mayos had accompanied the Crowleys on their migration from Virginia to Tennessee, and then from Tennessee to Missouri).
On May 27, 1835, John Crowley married Nancy Ann Loe's younger sister Julia Ann Loe in Howard County, Missouri. Julia was born in Howard county. in 1818 (Nancy Ann Loe was born in 1805). John and Julia settled in Scotland County, where they raised their family. John Crowley probably already had land in Scotland County at the time they settled there. John was a farmer; at one time he owned as much as 230 acres of farmland.
John and Julia had seven children. Two of their children, Mary Thankful and Nancy Catherine, the second and third children, died very young, two days apart, in August 1841, probably during an outbreak of smallpox or diphtheria. The remaining five children all lived well into adulthood.
Julia died on 29 Apr, 1859, leaving John with a 3-year-old, a 6-year-old, and a 9-year-old to raise (probably with the help of the two older daughters, Francis (Fanny) and Nancy).
John Crowley remarried, to Sarah Elizabeth (Cook) Tillott, on 6 Oct., 1865. They had five more children, all of whom lived to very old age; one daughter, Susan Adeline (Croley) Hunt, lived to age 106, dying in 1973 in Scotland County.
John Crowley died 14 Feb 1889. He was 75 years old.
They remained in Tennessee only a short time - long enough for John's father Samuel to join three expeditions with the Tennessee militia, during the war of 1812; the first, in 1812 under Andrew Jackson, to Natchez, Mississippi, to defend against the British who were preparing to attack New Orleans, and again in 1813, Under Jackson against the Red Stick Creek Indians in Alabama, ending at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. The third with General Nathaniel Taylor's campaign to Mobile Alabama.
Sometime shortly after John was born, Samuel and Celia moved their young family to what today is Clay County, in western Missouri. This was about 1815, just a few years after the Lewis and Clark expedition had returned from their exploration of the new American territory. Although much of the territory had previously been designated as reservation land for Indian tribes that had been displaced from Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana in earlier years, and the land was not yet officially open for settlement (it would not be open for legal settlement until 1818), there were already many settlers moving to the territory. The group that traveled to Missouri included Samuel's parents, James Crowley and Mary (McCain) Crowley, and the rest of James and Mary's family, as well as Samuel and Celia's infant son John Crowley. At the time, the route to Missouri from Tennessee involved traveling by flat boat down the Clinch River to the Tennessee River, along to the Ohio, then to the Mississippi, then on to Saint Louis. From there, up the Missouri River Valley, on foot or via keelboat, or both, to what was then Ray County, near present-day Kansas City, where most of the family first settled.
In 1826, John's mother Celia died, and his father Samuel remarried, in Clay County, to Nancy Ann Loe, daughter of Thomas Loe and Francis "Fanny" (Nelson) Loe (many Loe's, Nelsons and Mayos had accompanied the Crowleys on their migration from Virginia to Tennessee, and then from Tennessee to Missouri).
On May 27, 1835, John Crowley married Nancy Ann Loe's younger sister Julia Ann Loe in Howard County, Missouri. Julia was born in Howard county. in 1818 (Nancy Ann Loe was born in 1805). John and Julia settled in Scotland County, where they raised their family. John Crowley probably already had land in Scotland County at the time they settled there. John was a farmer; at one time he owned as much as 230 acres of farmland.
John and Julia had seven children. Two of their children, Mary Thankful and Nancy Catherine, the second and third children, died very young, two days apart, in August 1841, probably during an outbreak of smallpox or diphtheria. The remaining five children all lived well into adulthood.
Julia died on 29 Apr, 1859, leaving John with a 3-year-old, a 6-year-old, and a 9-year-old to raise (probably with the help of the two older daughters, Francis (Fanny) and Nancy).
John Crowley remarried, to Sarah Elizabeth (Cook) Tillott, on 6 Oct., 1865. They had five more children, all of whom lived to very old age; one daughter, Susan Adeline (Croley) Hunt, lived to age 106, dying in 1973 in Scotland County.
John Crowley died 14 Feb 1889. He was 75 years old.
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