Solomon Crumbaugh appears in the 1810 Scott County, Kentucky, federal census. From that record it appears his younger brothers were probably living with him also. In 1820 not only Solomon, but Henry and Daniel Crumbaugh are listed. These three men are brothers from Frederick County, Maryland.
Solomon remained in Scott County until his death, but Henry and Daniel moved further west to Illinois. It is my intent to develop a more complete account of this family and to verify some of the information I have received from others, but I wanted to post the information I have on these three brothers to make it available to others, with the suggestion the researcher verify the information I have provided.
Suggestions and comments may be sent to Richard Tobin
SOLOMON CRUMBAUGH (Johann Conrad2,
Johannes1), son of Johann Conrad and Anna Margaretha (Seideman)
Crumbaugh, was born on 3 Nov 1779 at Frederick Co., Maryland. He
died 6 Oct 1853 at Kentucky.
Solomon married Mary Winters on 13 Dec 1804. Mary, apparently the
daughter of Jacob Winters, was born in 1781 and died on 20 May
1865.
Solomon lived on a farm two or three miles from Georgetown,
Kentucky, where he had a saw and grist mill and cheese factory.
Mrs. Letta B. Stone visited the old homestead in 1925 and saw
what remained of the farmhouse. It was of ample dimensions, two
stories high, with dormer windows, a central staircase and two
enormous stone chimneys at the ends of the house. These stones
had been cut by hand from rock cliffs on the farm and were so
perfect that no cement was used in the building of a new house
for which these chimneys were torn down.
[Stone, Letta B. The West Family Register, 1928, pp.
184]
issue:
i. John W. 1805-1880 m. Elizabeth M. Johnson
ii. Margaret 1807- m. Joseph Evans
iii. Montgomery 1813-1880 m. Mary Anne West
iv. Eliza 1813- m. David F. Graham
v. Henry 1818-1900
vi. Mary Jane 1824- m. Wilson L. Hunt
vii. Sarah Ann 1827-1848
HEINRICH, better known as HENRY CRUMBAUGH (Johann Conrad2, Johannes1), son of Johann Conrad and Anna Margaretha (Seideman) Crumbaugh, was born on 18 Apr 1789 at Frederick Co., Maryland. He died on 22 Oct 1877 at LeRoy, McLean Co., Illinois. He was buried at Oak Grove Cemetery, Empire Township, McLean Co., Illinois.
Henry married Sarah Baldock in Apr 1820. Sarah was born in 1802 and died on 2 Feb 1885. She, too, is buried at Oak Grove Cemetery, Empire Township, McLean Co., Illinois.
Henry received his schooling at Frederick County, Maryland,
very much as other boys did. He was very skillful in boxing and
wrestling, and while between the ages of twenty-one and
thirty-one, he never found his match. In the year 1810 he moved
to Kentucky. During the winter of 1819 he started from Frankfort,
Kentucky, to New Orleans, with four flatboats, with freight
belonging to Col. Johnson. He made the trip dow n the river in
ten days, but was made very sick by drinking the river water. He
received for his pay two hundred dollars for each boat. He
returned on horseback through the Indian territory, and passed
over land belonging to the Chocktaws and Chickasaws. They treated
him with the greatest kindness. He moved his family to Elkhart
Grove, in Sangamon County, Illinois, in 1828, and to Buckles'
Grove, McLean County, in March, 1830, and settled on the land
south of present day LeRoy, Illinois. He had many adventures on
what was then the frontier. He was about six feet in height. In
his younger days he was very strong. He sometimes liked to attend
a horserace, but never was carried away by such sport. He was, in
his younger days, a man of steady nerve, a good hunter and an
accurate shot.
[Duis, E. The Good Old Times in McLean County, Illinois,
1874, pages 547-550]
issue:
i. Emily 1821-1826
ii. Narcissie 1824- m. Simpson E. Thompson
iii. James Henry Lyon 1826-1904 m. Amanda Melcena Buck
iv. Emily 1828-1838
v. Nancy H. 1830-1833
vi. Louisiana C. 1834-1866
vii. John Edgar Howard 1837-1925 m. Margaret Pemberton
viii. Andrew Jackson 1840- m. Mary Frances Shank
ix. Allen Montgomery 1842-1844
x. Lewis Cass 1845-1938 m. Rachel Belle Travis
DANIEL CRUMBAUGH (Johann Conrad2, Johannes1),
son of Johann Conrad and Anna Margaretha (Seideman) Crumbaugh,
was born on 7 Dec 1791 at Frederick Co., Maryland. He died on 19
May 1874. He is buried at Oak Grove Cemetery, Empire Township,
McLean Co., Illinois.
Daniel married Susan Winters in 1816 at Scott, Kentucky. Susan, daughter of Jacob Winters, died in 1823. She is buried in Scott Co., Kentucky.
Daniel married Martha Mitchell Robinson on 18 Jan 1825 at Georgetown, Kentucky. Martha was born on 19 Aug 1805 at North Carolina. She died on 4 Jun 1857. She is buried at Oak Grove Cemetery, Empire Township, McLean Co., Illinois.
Daniel received a little schooling in Frederick County, Maryland, "but not enough to hurt him." He used to assist the scholars in barring out the schoolmaster on Christmas days. At one time they compelled the teacher to give them two weeks' vacation, but he compelled the parents to pay him for these two weeks as if school had been in session, and some of the scholars came pretty near "catching it" from their angry fathers in consequence.
In 1812 Mr. Crumbaugh came west to Cincinnati, and from there went to Scott County, Kentucky. In 1813 he enlisted in the army under the command of Colonel Richard M. Johnson to fight against the British and Indians. He went first to Fort Meigs on the Miami Rapids above where Toledo now stands, where General Harrison has a garrison. From there they went to Lower Sandusky on Lake Erie, then back home to recruit their horse. They were then sent to Kaskaskia, Illinois. This town was threatened by Indians, and it seemed that the place which was afterwards to be the first capital of the Sucker State was to be blotted out entirely. But the Indians were headed off, and the regiment to which Mr. Crumbaugh belonged was sent back to Fort Meigs. While there they heard the roar of the guns during the battle when Commodore Perry gained his celebrated victory over the British on Lake Erie. Shortly after this they went to Detroit, crossed over to Windsor (then called Sandwich) and followed the British and Indians under the Command of General Proctor and the chief Tecumseh. At the River Thames the enemy made a stand and here was fought the battle which practically closed the contest in the north. The enemy was completely defeated, with the loss of baggage and eight hundred prisoners and a large number of killed and wounded. Tecumseh was among the slain. It has been a matter of speculation as to who killed him. Mr. Crumbaugh can shed no light upon it. Col. R.M. Johnson, the commander of the regiment, was wounded five times. The muskets used by the Americans in this battle were the old flintlocks, and the cartridges contained a ball and two buck-shot. The regiment opposed to the one in which Mr. Crumbaugh served was the Forty-fourth Irish regiment, commanded by Colonel Baubee. When the battle was over, the company to which Mr. Crumbaugh belonged was sent as a guard for General Harrison and the captured British officers, down to Lake St. Clair where they took shipping and came to Detroit. There they remained until Harrison made a treaty with some tribes of Indians, and then returned home to Georgetown, Kentucky. There Mr. Crumbaugh lived a rough-and-tumble life for some years. In 1828 he moved to Elkhart Grove in Sangamon County, and on the sixth of March, 1830, he moved to Buckles' Grove, McLean County, Illinois, where he lived the rest of his life. He was six feet and four inches in height.
[Duis, E. The Good Old Times in McLean County, Illinois, 1874, pages 550-553]
issue: (Daniel and Susan (Winters) Crumbaugh)
i. William Henry 1817- m. Sian Sirah Baldock
ii. John Jacob 1819-1847
iii. Ann Margaret 1820- m. Thomas Wiley
iv. Susan Jane 1823-1824
issue: (Daniel and Martha (Robinson) Crumbaugh)
i. Sarah E. 1826-1857 m. William P. Craig
ii. Mary Catharine 1827- m. Charles Cope
iii. Leonard Alexander 1829-1900 m. Sarah Margaret Wiley
iv. James Thomas 1832-1905 m. Elizabeth Jane Wiley
v. Daniel Thomas 1832-1910 m. 1)Margaret Wiley
2)Laura Anna Stine
vi. Emily Maria 1834- m. John Rees
vii. Francis Marion 1837-1899 m. Rebecca Riddle
viii. Caroline Turner 1839-1873 m. Anthony Rogers
ix. Martha Cary 1841-1907 m. George W. Bartlett
x. Nancy Turner 1844-1923 m. 1)Anderson M. Connell
2)Robert Hamilton
xi. Sinah Guilford 1848-1869 m. William Bartlett
MARRIAGES:
Graham, David F. m. Crumbaugh, Eliz. 30 Sept. 1844
Hunt, Wilson L. m. Crumbaugh, Mary Jane 5 Oct. 1848
CEMETERY Entries :
Mary wife of Solomon
Sarah Ann
Solomon Crumbaugh
There are no dates given for any of these Crumbaughs.
In the same "Crumbaugh Cemetery" is a stone for David
Cooper b. Jun 15, 1788 d. Apr 4, 1811.
WILLS & ESTATES: The will of Jacob Winter dated 20 Aug. 1822 - Will Book C, p. 404, Recorded Oct., 1822, lists his daughter as Mary Crumbough - this would be consistent with Mary, wife of Solomon, listed in the cemetery above.
LANDMARKS: There is a Crumbaugh Road or Pike in Scott Co.? Now Georgetown is expanding out that way and maybe the newest subdivision will be named Crumbaugh I'm not sure, but it will be entered from Crumbaugh Pike.
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