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C. G. Crow, farmer and proprietor of grist-mill and cotton-gin at McCreary Station, Bird Township, was born in Jackson County, in 1844, the second in a family of three children of Atrides and Mary (Waters) Crow, the father of Kentucky, the mother of Cape Girardeau County, Mo. The father was married in Missouri, and in 1840 came to Craighead County. He was practicing physician and surgeon, and in 1842 came to Jacksonport, Jackson County; after residing in various places, he returned to Jackson County, where he was county clerk; his death occurred in 1857. His wife died in 1851. The subject of this sketch was educated at the seminary in Hartford, Ky. In 1861, in Scott County, Mo., he enlisted for six months’ State service, and on the expiration of this time, he re-enlisted in Capt. William Cotter’s company, Gen. Forrest’s brigade, Neeley’s regiment, and was mustered into service in Tennessee. He was in the battles of Fort Pillow, Harrisburg, Parker’s Cross Roads, and the Oklahoma raid. He was paroled in Mississippi, in 1865, and returned to Jackson County, and in 1867 married Mary V. Pariott, a native of Tennessee, daughter of William H. and Martha (Darden) Parrott, of North Carolina and Tennessee nativity, who came to Jackson County in 1861. Her father died in 1879, and her mother some years before. After his marriage our subject settled where he now resides, buying a timber tract of forty acres, which he cleared and added to, until he now owns 600 acres, nearly 300 under cultivation, the products being cotton and corn; he also raises some stock. Mr. Crow is a Democrat, active in politics, and has always taken an active interest in the schools, being now a member of the school board. He is a member of Jacksonport Lodge No. 191, A. F. & A. M., and of Jacksonport Chapter No. 40. Mr. Crow always takes an active interest in everything for the good of the county, and has seen great changes in the course of its development. His family consists of four children now living: Ada, Maoima; Charles and Daisy Cleveland. William Atrides died in 1868, at the age of two years; Maud Ida, in 1874, at the age of four years.