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Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Harry Crow(e) born abt 1890 VA
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 17:28:09 EST


Try the newspapers for that area. A story like that should have been fairly
prominent.

Bev

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Subj: [VAROOTS] Harry Crow(e) born abt 1890 VA
Date: 1/4/2004 3:19:50 PM Eastern Standard Time
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Dear Listers,
My biggest brickwall is with my own last name. LOL. Not a living relative
exists besides my father. So here is my quandry. My great grandfather was
Harry Edward Crowe, (maybe his real first name, maybe not) born in Virginia abt
1890. He had a brother (maybe a cousin) Joseph. He and Joseph moved to Ohio
and Harry married my great grandmother Emma C. Ahlers b abt 1889. There was a
story that he was head of the Ohio numbers racket for the Detroit mob & that he
got killed/commited suicide somewhere around 1949. This is told to me by my
father, however, I cannot find a single death for him, I have tried every
variation of Harry & have even tried using the name of Edward as a possible first
name. My father also doesn't know if he really died at that time because he
didn't go to a funeral. He was just told that he died and was found in the
house. The only place I can find him existing, is on the census' for 1920 & 1930
in Dayton, Montgomery Co, Ohio. "Harry" had two step !
children Leona & Elmer (Ahlers) Crowe, and two biological children Ralph
Edward Crowe & Thelma Crowe. I can find information on Joseph, I have his death
record, it shows his parents as being Samuel Crowe & Ida Gardner. Though on
the 1900 census they show up in Rockingham County, VA w/Joseph but not Harry.
Ancestry doesn't let you view this census as a picture, just as the names that
appear on there (one by one). The "e" is not present on their name at this
time. I know they are from the same family because of the page, roll, & line
numbers given for the individual. If any of this sounds familiar to anyone, I
would greatly appreciate the help. My father thinks they might have been from
the Roanoke/Rockingham areas of Virginia as he did go to visit relatives there
often.
Thank you kindly,
Erin T. Crowe


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