John Crawford Crownover^{[1, 2]}

1774 - 1842  (67 years)

• Name	John Crawford Crownover
  Birth	7 Oct 1774	North Carolina
  Gender	Male
  Death	18 Sep 1842	La Grange, Fayette, Texas
  Burial	Old La Grange City Cemetery, La Grange, Fayette, Texas
  Person ID	I1915	The Road to Here
  Last Modified	18 Aug 2024

  
  

  Family ID

  F640

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  Family	Mary Elizabeth Chesney,   b. 21 Jun 1778, Union, Union County, South Carolina d. 8 Apr 1844, La Grange, Fayette, Texas (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1793
  Children	1. Robert Crownover   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Benjamin Crownover,   b. 14 Nov 1794, Union, South Carolina, United States d. 12 Dec 1864, Long Creek, Dallas, Texas, United States (Age 70 years)   3. John Chesney Crownover,   b. 11 Mar 1799, Gindal Shoals, Union, South Carollina d. 16 Jul 1845, Blanco County, Texas (Age 46 years)   4. Mitchell Crownover,   b. 27 Sep 1802, Buncombe, North Carolina, United States d. 1828, Province of Texas, Mexico (Age 25 years)   5. Mary Polly Crownover,   b. 8 Apr 1805, Buncombe County, North Carolina d. Yes, date unknown   6. Snelson Crownover,   b. 1808   d. 1808 (Age 0 years)   7. Franklin Crownover,   b. 1808   d. 1808 (Age 0 years)   8. Arter Crownover,   b. 22 Jul 1810, Buncombe County, North Carolina d. 8 Feb 1876, Blanco, Texas (Age 65 years)   9. Joseph Crownover,   b. 13 Mar 1813, Union Township, North Carolina, United States d. 29 Mar 1817, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States (Age 4 years)   10. Malissa Crownover,   b. 29 May 1819, Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas d. 3 Jan 1894, Llano, Llano County, Texas (Age 74 years)
  Family ID	F638	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 May 2026

  
  

• Notes

  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30312217/john-crawford-crownover John Crawford Crownover was born on Oct 1, 1774 at North Carolina. He was the son of Benjamin Crownover and Rachel Jasper. John Crawford Crownover was born on Oct 7, 1774 at Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. He was born on Oct 7, 1775 at Union County, South Carolina. John married Mary Elizabeth Chesney, daughter of Robert Chesney Jr. and Lydia Crownover, in 1794 at Union County, South Carolina. John Crawford Crownover died on Sep 18, 1842 at LaGrange, Fayette County, Texas, at age 67. CROWNOVER, JOHN (1774-1842). John Crownover, an early settler, was born on October 7, 1774, to Benjamin and Rachel (Jasper) Crownover, who lived in Union District, South Carolina. Benjamin Crownover served in the Revolutionary War in South Carolina and received 200 acres of land for his service. In 1830 John Crownover moved to Texas from Arkansas with his wife, Elizabeth, and one daughter. He applied for land in May 1835 under Stephen F. Austin'sqv fifth contract. His grant was located in Madison County. John Crownover married Elizabeth Chesney in South Carolina about 1793. Their first three children were born there. They moved to Buncombe County, North Carolina, then to Hardin County, Kentucky, to Illinois, and later to Arkansas and Texas. They had eleven children. Their grown children preceded them to Texas. John C. Crownover, who settled in Fayette County, arrived in 1824 as one of the Old Three Hundred.qv His sister, Mary Crownover Rabb,qv who published Travels and Adventures in Texas in the 1820's, came with her husband, John Rabb.qv John Crownover's will was dated August 18, 1842, and recorded in the Fayette County Courthouse at La Grange in 1843. Elizabeth died in 1844. The name Crownover derives from the name Wolfert Gerretse van Kouwenhove, the first of this family from the Netherlands, who sailed to New York in 1625.

  
  

• Sources

  [S182] 1800 U.S. Census. [S185] 1810 U.S. Census.