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From: "Erin T. Crowe" <>
Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Harry Crow(e) born abt 1890 VA
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 18:47:05 -0800
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Bev,
I have tried the newspapers, but I will be at it again as so many ppl have
responded & found my great grandfather & my great great grandfather on the
Census for Rockingham Co, VA. Now I have many more names which means many
more leads....More detective work. Woo Hoo.
Thank you so much for taking the time,
Erin T. Crowe
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Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] Harry Crow(e) born abt 1890 VA


> 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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