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Subject: Washington I Crow
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 15:09:18 EDT

I am not a Crow researcher. This is just something interesting I found while
reading articles on the webpage:


I found this in the online history of Harrison County on Criminal Cases
transcribed by Mona Knight from the 1915 History. He has no listing in the
Woodbine Cemetery book under Washington Crow. I think this is referring to
Irving Crow who died in 1875 and is buried by his mother & father Stephen
Crow in Block III Original Row 2.

The article:

"THE KILLING OF WASHINGTON I. CROW. Another sad case was that wherein the
young life of the son of STEPHEN CROW, near Woodbine, was sacrificed at the
hands of one ARTEMUS BAKER sometime during the year 1875. The killing was
accomplished by use of a pistol fired from the hand of BAKER, and death was
instantaneous. The sad affair occurred at the barn of STEPHEN CROW. None but
the two were present and thereafter only one side was ever heard. The jury
tried the case in the old Methodist Episcopal Church at Logan, the courthouse
not being completed there at that date. Self-defense was the plea, and it
worked well and Not Guilty was the final verdict. A tombstone in the Woodbine
Cemetery today carries an inscription stating that the young man was
Assassinated!"

I asked Don Kohl to check the markers out for me. Don wrote:

"Next to the headstone for Irving Crow, to the north, is the base of a
marker, but the base is all that is there. What the marker said, when it
was removed, are good questions? I wish the marker was still there, but it
is not."

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