Francis Crowe ¹²

  General Notes:

1871 Ontario Census:

CROW FN=FRACIS; Age=34. BP=ONTARIO; Rel= WM. Eth= IRISH; Occ= FARMER.
District=28; Subdist=E; Div=1; Pg=15. BRU Arran Twp.

FRANCIS CROWE
Francis Crowe, an old prominent resident of St. Paul, enjoys a pleasant
home in that beautiful city. He has spent many years in Howard county,
during which time he has succeeded in accumulating a valuable estate
consisting of five hundred acres of choice farm lands besides other
interests here, and is known as one of the wealthy men of that region.
Our subject is a native of Canada, born October 20, 1837, and was the
eldest child in a family of eight. He grew up in that country, during his
young manhood following farming and stock raising, and was married there
January 31, 1858, to Alice Crowe, five children resulting from their
union., three of whom died in infancy, and the mother died in Canada in
1868. In the following year he married Bessie Crowe, and ten children
were born of this marriage, seven now living, namely: Alice, Belle,
Charlie, Viola, wife of E. W. Docker, they living in Black Buke, Wyoming;
Ida, wife of Allen McPherry, Wallace M. and Bruce, the three last
mentioned living at home, while the others are married all residing in
Howard county.
Mr. Crowe came into Howard county with his family in 1878, landing here
in October. He had been through the country two years previously and at
that time purchased a piece of land, afterwards returning to Canada where
he remained until coming back to Nebraska with his family. They went
through the usual pioneer experiences in getting their farm started but
stuck good, bad and indifferent times and gradually succeeded in
improving the place in good shape, erecting substantial buildings and
cultivating more land each year until Mr. Crowe now has one of the
valuable estates in the locality, consisting of about five hundred acres,
all choice farm land which he has stocked up in fine shape, and while he
still takes an active part in the management of his farming interests, he
makes St. Paul his residence, surrounded by many friends, the family
being among the prominent citizens of their community.
Two children of Mr. Crowe's first marriage are living, William Henry
Crowe, now in South McAllister, Oklahoma, and George Crowe, a well known
resident of South Omaha, Nebraska.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Census Record, 1880, St. Paul Precinct, Howard County, Nebraska.

Francis married Alice on 31 Jan 1858 in Canada. (Alice died in 1868 in Canada.)

Francis next married Elizabeth Crow in 1869 in Canada. (Elizabeth Crow was born on 16 Dec 1846 in Ireland, died on 15 Oct 1918 in Nebraska and was buried in Warsaw Cemetary, Howard County, Nebraska.)