Bryant Crews has a CSA pension app on line under WARD i.e. Ware county, GA . He says he was born Dec 10, 1844 in Ware county. He enlisted in Waynesville, Ga in 1862 with Co. K of the 4th GA cav. and surrendered on May 7, 1865. Title:Crews, Bryant
Last Name Crews
First Name Bryant
County WARD
Record Type Document
Cite as Confederate Pension Applications, Georgia Confederate Pension Office, RG 58-1-1, Georgia Archives
Digital Collection Confederate Pension Applications
Record ID USAMILCONFEDGA_187863-01115
Date created 2009-08-31
∼Last Ware County Confederate Veteran Buried at High Bluff

Bryant M. Crews Sr., 94, last of the Ware County's ranks of Confederate Veterans, who recently has been living with his daughter, Mrs. Mary Griffis , near Hoboken, died on Saturday and will be buried on Sunday at the High Bluff Cemetery in Brantley County..

Bryant was one of the first Ware County youths to enlist in the Army of the Confederacy, serving through the entire war ..

Born in December of 1844 near High Bluff church, in the Big Creek section in the northeastern part of Ware County, the son of Macajah and Eminiza Crews, pioneers of the South Georgia..
Macajah Crews drew land in the Cherokee Land Lottery , in Camden County on January 1, 1838 according to records revealed in the Ware County History compiled by Mrs. J.L. Walker of the City ..

Bryant M. Crews was a grandson of Joseph Crews, a soldier in the Indian Wars of 1837-38 ..
Preceded in death by his wife : Mrs. Pollie Dowling Crews , some years ago ,
They had twelve children,
more than a hundred grand children and
seventy-five great grand children ..

Survivors include six children:
W.B. Crews of Hoboken
M.J. Crews of Waycross
Mrs. Eddie Dixon of Hoboken
Mrs. Mary Griffis of Hoboken
Mrs. Jimmie Cox of Waycross
Mrs. Tisha Melton of Hoboken

(a sister)
Mrs. Emmie Dowling of Uptonville ..

January 6, 1938 Newspaper .....
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