Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-25
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Tho numerous and influential Crews
family of Granville is well k.iown
Most of it's members arc descendants
OF Gideon Crews. father of Gideon. Jr.,
and grandfather Of three girls. who
married Manson Brecdlove, John Sears
and Solomon Cottrell. The children of
G!deon's son. James. brother of Gideon.
Jr.. were: James A. Gather of Robert
II. Rebecca married j. Chcatham and
was the mother Of Theodore. Thomas.
William and the hrst Mrs. y. G. Par
ham), Mary (marricd w. O. Wright and
went WesO, Martha (married Joseph
Penn Hunt. and was the mother of
Mrs. Sallie Crews, Mrs. John n. Breed
love. Mrs. 3. ]. BreedloYe. Mrs. Ella
Fuller. ID. y. Hunt and others. Thomas
Gather Of Nor1eet G. Crews and
others). Edward ". Isabella married
b w Hicks. and was the mother OF
Archibald 4. Hicks). Susan c. the only
one surviving married George w. Hunt.
and Is the mother of Junius Penn Hunt.
the late Mrs. Joseph Parhan. Mrs.
Charles + Crews and othersD and
Melissa married Rev. w. 5, Hester and
was the mother OF Mrs. r. j. Aiken,
Mrs. y. y. Hunt, Mrs. j. NJ. Rhodes,
OF Littleton, and others).
Among the descendants of the Earl
Watts couple are most OF the Har-
rises of Granville and Vance Counties.
One of the Harris girls. grand
daughter of this couple. married Abner
flick and became the grandmother of
Archibald a. Hicks. Another married
Or. Samuel Duty at one time pastor
of Grassy Creek Baptist Church. lie
had no sons, but thirteen daughters.
several Of whom married and brought
up large families in Granville and else
where. The only one of the daughters
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memory of the present generation was
the late Mrs. Sally Duty Hays.
Mourning Hunt, who was, as we have
just seen, the grcat-greatgra ndmothe
Of Robert T. Crews, married twice, her
second marriage having been to Will
liam Hicks. 1t is in the Hunt rather
than the Hicks line that we are inter-
ested just now. John Hunt, as above
mentioned, married Frances Penn.
daughter of Mary Taylor Penn, daugh-
ter OF John Taylor. This John Taylor
had a large family. One of his children.
Edward, was the father of Lewis, who
was the great grandfather of T. G.. Tay-
lor Mrs. c. II. d. Fort. Mrs. n. 4. Hines.
]. Arch Taylor, Richard r. Taylor, and
others, including Susan and Robert Pei
ham, who changed their name from Pot
ter. their father having been the brill
liant, fiery and notorious Robert Potter.
Another of John Taylor's daughters,
were the parents of John Penn, who be-
came immortal by signing the Declare
! ton of Independence. He was Gran
willie County man. although born in Vir-
gina. In a Fourth of July Grafton de-
livered in the Orphan Asylum chapel in
1876, the late DR.. Theodore B. Kings
bury made the error of stating that the
Hunt family was descended from John
Penn, the signer, and this error has
! been repeated many times and in vari-
Gus places 1t appears in the obituary
notices of some OF the Hunts who died
while DR.. Kingsbury was doing news
paper work here in oxford. In an cdi :
, torial in the Wilmington Messenger
twenty years later DR.. Kingshury adj
United that he might have been wrong
! in saying that John Penn was the an
cestor OF the Hunts of Granville. Still
another of the Taylor sisters married
n Bullock. and was the great-grand-
mother of the late James a. Bullock.
Mrs. Lucy Q. Gregory, and ]. NJ. b. Hunt
all people we'll known in this county
not SO many years ago. Through the
Taylors Mr. Crews was related also to
| the Thorps the Lewises. the Richards
and other old Granville families.
| But this is a depression from the
! Hunt line. John Hunt and his wife.
Frances Penn, had eleven children