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Crowell family

Germany > Berks Co PA > MD > Pulaski Co VA > Washington Co TN

 

 

The only thing my family knew about the Crowell branch of my family was that my great-grandfather's name was Robert Crowell. Much of what is presented here about the Crowell ancestors was provided to me by Linda Gail Komar, Tim Mattingly (family info available on website) and Betty Crowell, all Crowell family researchers. Linda contributes to the Crowell list on RootsWeb and publishes a quarterly newsletter. This is a compilation of material by them and other Crowell researchers. There is much to do on this side of the family.

 

I do not as yet have a record of the birth of my 5G grandfather Johan Michael Grauel, though it is believed he was born about 1683 in Germany. His wife Sybilla Elizabetha Fulman was bap. on 6 Feb 1704/05 in Heuchelheim, Pfalz, Germany.


Michael Grauel, his wife Sybilla, their five sons and Sybilla's parents, Jacob Fulman and Anna Barbara (Siegfried) Fulman, emigrated from Germany on the ship "Harle", leaving from Rotterdam and landing at Philadelphia on September 1, 1736. The passenger list of this ship is published in "Pennsylvania German Pioneers, a Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia From 1727 to 1808", by Ralph Beaver Strassburger, pub. 1980. Linda sent me copies of the book's passenger list signatures of my ancestors. They show various spellings of the surname in various places: Michel Kraul, Jacob Vellmann, Sibila Elisabeth Kraul, Anna Barbara Vollman, Johan Michel Graul, Jacob Follman, Jacob Fellman.
 

 

Michael Grauel and Sybilla Fulman settled in Berks Co PA. I do not know exactly where in Berks Co they lived nor do I know when they died. Four of their five sons, George, Jacob, Phillip and Johannes married and lived all their lives in Berks Co.

  1. Johan George Grauel - b. 21 Nov 1725 Heuchelheim, Pfalz GER d. 29 Dec 1753 Berks Co PA; m. Elizabeth Lerch. Administration of John George Graul's will was given to to his widow Elizabeth on 29 Dec 1753.
    1. Sybilla - bap. 12 May 1751 Rockland Lutheran Church, Rockland Twp, Berks PA
    2. Johan George - bap. 12 May 1751 Rockland Lutheran Church, Rockland Twp, Berks PA

  2. Johan Nicholas Grauel - b. 25 Mar 1727 Heuchelheim, Pfalz GER d. 8 Jan 1730 Heuchelheim, Pfalz GER

  3. Johan Heinrich Grauel - b. 14 May 1729 Heuchelheim, Pfalz GER d. aft 6 Sep 1784 Frederick Co MD; m. Anna Mararetha Bader - b. 1730 d. 1784 Frederick Co MD
  4. Johan Jacob Grauel - b. 31 Jan 1731 Heuchelheim, Pfalz GER d. 19 Jul 1811 Reading, Berks PA; 1m. May 1759 Anna Schmidt, 2m. 27 Sep 1770, Reading Berks PA Catherina Christ, daughter of Henry and Appolonia Christ. The administration of Jacob's will was given to sons John and Samuel.

  5. Johan Phillip Grauel - b. 18 Aug 1732 Heuchelheim, Pfalz GER d. aft 2 Mar 1762; m. Eva Catharina ____. The will of Philip GRAUEL, Maxatawny, written 29 Mar 1762, proved 14 Apr 1762. Provides for wife Eva Cattarina. To my mother Sibbilla Grauel œ10. Remainder to be put to interest until youngest child is of age and then equally divided among children who are not named. Exrs: wife Eva Cattarina and friend Sebastian Levan. Wit: Nicholas Schroyer, John Bast and Jost Vollert. Abstracts of Berks Co PA Wills 1752-1785

  6. Johannes Grauel - b. 2 Oct 1733 Heuchelheim, Pfalz GER d. 1 Mar 1759 Berks Co PA; m. Margaret Elizabeth ____

     



The third son, Heinrich, married Anna Margaretha Bader about 1750 and after having four children born there through 1760, moved to Frederick Co MD. Heinrich Grauel died sometime after 6 Sep 1784 when his will was written and before 2 Oct 1784 when it was entered into probate in Frederick Co MD. By that time he had changed his name to Henry Crowel. No record of the death of his wife Anna Margaretha has yet been found. Henry and Anna had seven children, the first four born in PA and the last three born in MD.
 

  1. Johan deBald - b. 8 Apr 1751 Rockland Twp, Berks PA d. 30 Jul 1839 Newberry Twp, Miami OH; m. abt 1772 Juliana Nutz 
  2. Michael - b. 5 Jan 1756 Berks Co PA d. abt 1831 Franklin Co VA; m. Mary Hospelshawn
  3. Barbara - b. abt 1759 Berks Co PA; m. Leonard Young
  4. Henry - b. 8 Nov 1760 Berks Co PA d. abt 1857 Pulaski Co VA; 1m. Rachel Smith, 2m. Elizabeth Anderson b. abt 1787 Maryland
  5. Elizabeth - chr. 1 Aug 1766 Frederick Co MD; m. 14 May 1782 Frederick Co MD Daniel Root b. 1758
  6. Seville/Sibyll
  7. John - b. abt 1770 d. Clearfield Co PA; m. 15 Sep 1792 Frederick Co MD Susan Dagur 

 

Henry Crowel, the fourth child of Henry and Anna, is shown on the 1850 census, 48th Dist, Pulaski VA as being 83 years old and born in Maryland. He married Rachel Smith sometime before 1787, the year of birth of the first of their ten children.
 

I know very little about Henry and Rachel's children, in most cases a name and year and place of birth. All of the first three, George, Joseph and Margaret were born in Frederick Co MD. By 1794 when the fourth child is believed to have been born, Henry and Rachel's home could have been either MD or VA, as I have no specific birth dates for any of the remaining six children. The two youngest children, Ann Maria and William, did marry in Wythe Co VA in 1834 and 1835. Various grandchildren of Henry and Rachel were found on the 1850 VA census records. The page listing Henry Crowell, their fifth child, is virtually unreadable.

  1. George W. - b. 1787 Frederick Co MD d. Preble Co OH; m. Margaret Root, his cousin, daughter of Daniel Root and Elizabeth Crowell.
     
    1. Henry - b. 3 Apr 1816 Virginia d. 11 Oct 1896 Indiana
    2. Elizabeth - b. 14 Oct 1817 Virginia d. 20 Mar 1892
    3. Joseph - b. 1819 d. 1836

  2. Joseph - b. 1788 Frederick Co MD; m. Mary Ann McLaughlin

  3. Margaret - chr. 1 Jul 1792 Frederick Co MD; m. 16 Apr 1812 Botetourt Co VA Abraham Butt
     
    1. Maria - b. abt 1824
    2. Caroline - b. abt 1829
    3. Jane - b. abt 1836
       
  4. John - b. abt 1794 Maryland or Virginia; m. 8 Feb 1812 Franklin Co VA Mary Amos (If you have information on this couple, please contact Ray Crowell)

  5. Henry - b. abt 1800

  6. James S. - m. Mary ___
     
    1. William Stafford - b. 1841 Giles Co VA, millwright; m. 27 Feb 1862 Washington Co VA Margaret Ann Crowell b. 1844 Pulaski Co VA, his cousin, daughter of William Crowell and Mary Ann Rowlett
    2. Rebecca J. - b. Washington Co VA; m. 17 Dec 1868 Washington Co VA Otto H. Campbell b. Washington Co VA son of Jacob and Ann Campbell
    3. Elizabeth - b. 9 Jan 1843 Giles Co VA; m. 11 Jan 1860 William Henry Campbell b. 7 Nov 1840, also a son of Jacob and Ann Campbell.

  7. Mary - b. abt 1800 Virginia; m. 5 Sep 1818 Botetourt Co VA Jacob Saddler b. abt 1799 MD. A Jacob Saddler is listed in the 1860 VA census, pg. 710, living in Newbern, Pulaski Co. (If you have information on this couple, please contact Pam Kerschner)
     
    1. Joshua - b. abt 1822 Virginia
    2. John - b. abt 1823 Virginia
    3. Sarah A. - b. abt 1824 Virginia
    4. Jane - b. abt 1825 Virginia
    5. William - b. abt 1827 Virginia
    6. Gordon - b. abt 1835 Virginia
    7. Mary - b. abt 1836 Virginia
    8. Elizabeth - b. abt 1837 Virginia
       
  8. Rebecca - m. 19 Oct 1840 Tazewell Co VA Robert McGlothlin

  9. Ann Maria - m. 2 Jan 1834 Wythe Co VA Aaron Osborn 

  10. William - b. 1811 VA d. aft 1850 Washington Co VA; m. 29 Jan 1835 Wythe Co VA Mary Ann Rowlett
     
    1. Elizabeth Julia - b. 8 Nov 1835 Wythe Co VA; m. 11 Jan 1855 Washington Co VA Charles James McGee b. 25 Oct 1834 Wythe Co VA, s/o Thomas and Ruth McGee.
    2. Cynthia Jane - b. abt 1837 Wythe Co VA; m. 16 Nov 1859 Washington Co VA Joseph Ezekiel Moore b. abt 1834 Smyth Co VA, s/o John and Lucy Ann Moore
    3. Robert Nathan - b. 27 Jan 1842 Pulaski or Washington Co VA; 1m. 22 Mar 1860 Nancy Adeline Moore, 2m. 1 Mar 1866 Mary Elizabeth Harris b. abt 1842 Washington Co VA, d/o Liburn and Pheobe Harris.
    4. Margaret Ann - b. abt 1844 Pulaski Co VA
    5. James Daly - b. abt 1845 VA
    6. Mary - b. abt 1848 VA
       

After Rachel's death abt 1815, Henry Crowell married a second time, on 6 Jan 1819 in Botetourt Co VA, to Elizabeth Anderson. They were the parents of three children, Henry, Eliza and Susan Mary about whom I know nothing further.

 

Information on the Crowell marriages was found in Washington Co VA Marriages, 1853-1880 compiled by Thomas Colley. It was sent to me by Betty Crowell who is married to a great grandson of James Daly Crowell. Any of these researchers would appreciate additional information on these families. 



 

Joseph Crowell, the second of Henry and Rachel's ten children and my 2G grandfather, was born in 1788 in Frederick Co MD. He married Mary Ann McLaughlin, whose maiden name is known thanks to Alice Lidholm, who found the reference in a book of pioneers of Routt Co CO. Alice is related to Joseph's eighth child, David Cloyd Crowell who moved to CO with his wife. Joseph and Mary Ann Crowell had 13 children.

  1. Isaac H. - b. 1831, m. 14 Aug 1851 Pulaski Co VA Elmira Tremble

  2. James W. - b. 1832 d. 21 Jul 1861 Manassas VA; m. 25 Mar 1852 Pulaski Co VA Nancy Hurst. Five children:
     
    1. Augustus - b. 1852
    2. Ballard - b. 22 Mar 1854 Pulaski Co VA
    3. Mathilda R. - b. 2 Jun 1856 Pulaski Co VA
    4. Jonathan - b. Aug 1858 Pulaski Co VA
    5. James - b. 11 Dec 1860 Pulaski Co VA
       
  3. Madison T. - b. Dec 1834; m. 24 Jan 1855 Washington Co VA Mary Jane Orr Stewart b. abt 1835 Wythe Co VA, daughter of Joseph and Sarah H. Stewart

  4. John M. - b. abt Feb 1835 Wythe Co VA; m. 7 Aug 1854 Washington Co VA Mary Ann Sherretts b. abt May 1836 Washington Co VA, daughter of Conrad and Elizabeth Sherretts

  5. Elizabeth - b. 1837; m. 20 Jun 1852 Pulaski Co VA Alexander Cook

  6. Lucinda - b. 1838

  7. Sara I. - b. 1839

  8. David Cloyd - b. 1 Mar 1841 Pulaski Co VA d. 1918 Craig, Moffatt CO; m. 28 Jun 1865 Washington Co VA Mary Jane Hawthorne b. abt 1842 Washington Co VA d. 20 Mar 1909 Colorado. 
    From Alice Lidholm: "David was a pioneer of Craig, CO, moving there in 1883. David and Mary J. Hawthorne moved to Colorado in 1870, and lived in Denver, CO. where he was a fire fighter. In 1880 he was proprietor of the Frisco Hotel in Frisco, CO, and spent a short time in Leadville, CO before moving to a ranch in Routt Co. near Craig, in 1883. The book that I referred to was a history of the pioneers of Routt Co., CO (History of West Routt County Colorado, published by Curtis Media). and starts out, "David C. Crowell was born in Pulaski Co., Va on Mar 1, 1841. He was the son of Joseph and Mary McLaughlin Crowell. Joseph and Mary were native Virginians." From there it goes on to tell about his service in the Confederate army as a 1st lieutenant. He then married Mary J. Hawthorne on 6/28/1865. It then tells about their children, Mary, Walter and Laura."

  9. Chester - b. 1843

  10. Joseph - b. 1844

  11. Newton - b. 1845

  12. Mary E. - b. 1846

  13. Robert Craig - b. 1849 in Pulaski Co VA d. Jan 1897; m. 28 May 1871 Washington Co VA Sara Ann O'Dell b. 18 Sep 1848 d. 9 Aug 1915 Philadelphia  PA, daughter of Stephen O'Dell and Mary Ann Warden
     



Robert Craig Crowell married Sara Ann O'Dell on 28 May 1871 in Washington Co TN. I do not know when or why he moved to TN although an uncle of his, John, had apparently moved to Coffee Co TN where John is supposed to have died.

 

A short, rough draft of an autobiography typed by Robert's wife, Sara Ann, tells of their meeting and states that Robert Crowell ran off at the age of 14 to join the war. A Robert Crowell is listed as volunteering for active service in the 105th VA Militia, Davis' Co. An M.T. Crowell (Robert's brother, Madison T.?) is also listed as age 25, joining Rhea's Co. of the same 105th Militia. A Joseph Crowell (another brother?) is also shown on the roster of the 50th VA Infantry in Pulaski Co VA, along with Jeremiah, John and Robert Odell. 

 

Robert and Sara had three children:
 

  1. Corinthia Ann - b.19 May 1875 d. 21 Jan 1917 Philadelphia PA; 1m. Alfred L___ , 2m. 6 Jul 1897 Greeneville TN George Corson Taggert, lived in Philadelphia PA

  2. Ida Virginia - b. 1881 d. Nov 1896 Greene Co TN

  3. Sara Alys - b. 29 Mar 1891 d. 22 Mar 1958 Bloomfield, Essex NJ; m. 6 Mar 1918 Laurie Moyes Leedom 

 

Robert died in Jan 1897 and is buried next to his daughter Ida Virginia, whose death preceded his own by only two months. I have not yet found the specific cemetery they are buried in though it is about five miles from their home at the time, believed to be Limestone. His widow Sara Ann then moved to Philadelphia after her daughter Corinthia's marriage to George Taggert, a doctor in that city. Sara Ann O'Dell died 9 Aug 1915 in Philadelphia and Corinthia died less two years later. I have not yet found their burial places.

 


 

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