It is believed that Harry was born at his parents home on the banks of the Salt River in Monroe County near Paris, Missouri. This is where he grew up as well as Shelbina and Moberly, Missouri. His parents moved to the latter when he was about ten years of age. I'm sure he probably helped his father at his grist mill in his teenage years. On his 21st birthday he married Ruby Snow and started a family. They had two sons...Harold and George. In these years Harry worked for the Wabash Railroad as a steam fitter and later as a freight conductor. He had also learned the trade of plumbing from his brother in law John Tedford. As a result of a bad railroad strike in the early 1920s he took up the plumbing trade, moved to Jefferson City, Missouri and started his own company. He lived here for a number of years and then around 1930 he bought a small farm in New Bloomfield, Missouri. He continued in the plumbing business and did some farming. In the late Forty's he and Ruby moved to New Bloomfield and lived there until he came home and found her in her chair with her sewing basket in her lap in 1951. He soon moved to Moberly and lived with his sister Nanny until she died in 1961. After her death he spent the last years of his life living at the Randolph Hotel across the street from the Wabash Depot in Moberly. Harry was a nice old man...I have nothing but good memories of him as a boy growing up. I learned many things from him especially when they lived on the farm that I would never have learned otherwise. He was a great grandpa and I truly miss the smell of that pipe.
Harry A. Crow, 89, died Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at Community Hospital, where he had been one week.
A Moberly resident for 25 years, he was a retired farmer. Mr. Crow had operated a plumbing business in Jefferson City for 25 years.
His wife, Ruby, died in 1951, and one son, George, preceded him in death.
Surviving are one son, Harold F., Jefferson City; two grandchildren, five great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews, including Miss Helen Tedford, Mrs. Lucille Ray and Carson Tedford of Moberly, and cousins.
Funeral services were held today in the Million-Greer and Comstrock Funeral Chapel.
Burial was in Oakland Cemetery. The Rev. A. Louis Harris of the First Christian Church was in charge.
(Moberly Monitor-Index, Moberly, Missouri, 19 Oct 1970)
It is believed that Harry was born at his parents home on the banks of the Salt River in Monroe County near Paris, Missouri. This is where he grew up as well as Shelbina and Moberly, Missouri. His parents moved to the latter when he was about ten years of age. I'm sure he probably helped his father at his grist mill in his teenage years. On his 21st birthday he married Ruby Snow and started a family. They had two sons...Harold and George. In these years Harry worked for the Wabash Railroad as a steam fitter and later as a freight conductor. He had also learned the trade of plumbing from his brother in law John Tedford. As a result of a bad railroad strike in the early 1920s he took up the plumbing trade, moved to Jefferson City, Missouri and started his own company. He lived here for a number of years and then around 1930 he bought a small farm in New Bloomfield, Missouri. He continued in the plumbing business and did some farming. In the late Forty's he and Ruby moved to New Bloomfield and lived there until he came home and found her in her chair with her sewing basket in her lap in 1951. He soon moved to Moberly and lived with his sister Nanny until she died in 1961. After her death he spent the last years of his life living at the Randolph Hotel across the street from the Wabash Depot in Moberly. Harry was a nice old man...I have nothing but good memories of him as a boy growing up. I learned many things from him especially when they lived on the farm that I would never have learned otherwise. He was a great grandpa and I truly miss the smell of that pipe.
Harry A. Crow, 89, died Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at Community Hospital, where he had been one week.
A Moberly resident for 25 years, he was a retired farmer. Mr. Crow had operated a plumbing business in Jefferson City for 25 years.
His wife, Ruby, died in 1951, and one son, George, preceded him in death.
Surviving are one son, Harold F., Jefferson City; two grandchildren, five great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews, including Miss Helen Tedford, Mrs. Lucille Ray and Carson Tedford of Moberly, and cousins.
Funeral services were held today in the Million-Greer and Comstrock Funeral Chapel.
Burial was in Oakland Cemetery. The Rev. A. Louis Harris of the First Christian Church was in charge.
(Moberly Monitor-Index, Moberly, Missouri, 19 Oct 1970)
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