Wife of Joseph Henry Crews. Family stories say she lived to be 120 years old.
GRANDMA PEG LEG
PROVIEDED BY: Karen Mathis Hudson added this on 17 Jan 2012
Paul Hudson, Jr.added this on 8 Aug 2010
GRANDMA PEG LEG
SHE WAS CALLED GRANDMA PEG LEG, BECAUSE ONE OF HER LEG WAS SHORTER THAN THE OTHER. HER HUSBAND WOULD WHITTLE HER A LEG WHEN THAT ONE WORE DOWN. WHEN THE INDIANS WERE FIGHTING AGAINST THE WHITE PEOPLE,GRANDMA PEG LEG WOULD TAKE HER CHILDREN TO THE RIVER AND HIDE UNDER ROCKS TILL THE INDIANS WOULD PASS. GRANDMA PEG LEG AND HER CHILDREN, ALSO SURROUNDING NEIGHBORS WAS GATHERED UP BY THE ARMY AND TAKEN TO ST.AUGUSTINE TO THE FORT THERE FOR SAFETY. AT THAT TIME GERONIMO, THE INDIAN CHIEF WAS HELD CAPTURE. THE INDIANS HAD A DIFFICULT TIME ADAPTING TO THE FLORIDA CLIMATE TILL THEY WERE LOSING WEIGHT. GRANDMA PEG LEG TOOK CARE OF GERONIMO. WHEN IT WAS SAFE TO RETURN, THEY CAME BACK TO NASSAU COUNTY. FAMILY SAID SHE LIVE A LONG LIFE RAISING HER CHILDREN BECAUSE HER HUSBAND WAS KILLED AT A BARN RISING. A FIGHT BROKE OUT AND HE RAN TO GET HER AND WAS SLASHED ACROSS THE STOMACH WHERE LATER HE DIED OF THE KNIFE WOUND AT A YOUNG AGE. HE WAS VERY PROTECTIVE OVER HER. AFTER THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND, HER SON-IN-LAW JOHN CARROLL TOOK OVER WHITTLING HER A NEW PEG LEG. GRANDMA PEG LEG MAY NOT HAD LIVE LONGER THAN WHAT THE DATES SHOW ON HER HEADSTONE. SOME SAY 120 YRS OLD.BUT NOT SURE. CENSUS DATES SHOW DIFFERENT (THEY ARE POSSIBLY RIGHT) THAN HER HEADSTONE. THIS WHAT FAMILY MEMBERS HAS TOLD THROUGH THE YEARS.... KAREN MATHIS HUDSON
I HAD TO REPHRASE MY STORY REGARDING HER BIRTH & DEATH DATES. BE NICE!!! THANK YOU.
Marriage Date 10 June 1855, Charlton County, Georgia, USA.
GRANDMA PEG LEG
PROVIEDED BY: Karen Mathis Hudson added this on 17 Jan 2012
Paul Hudson, Jr.added this on 8 Aug 2010
GRANDMA PEG LEG
SHE WAS CALLED GRANDMA PEG LEG, BECAUSE ONE OF HER LEG WAS SHORTER THAN THE OTHER. HER HUSBAND WOULD WHITTLE HER A LEG WHEN THAT ONE WORE DOWN. WHEN THE INDIANS WERE FIGHTING AGAINST THE WHITE PEOPLE,GRANDMA PEG LEG WOULD TAKE HER CHILDREN TO THE RIVER AND HIDE UNDER ROCKS TILL THE INDIANS WOULD PASS. GRANDMA PEG LEG AND HER CHILDREN, ALSO SURROUNDING NEIGHBORS WAS GATHERED UP BY THE ARMY AND TAKEN TO ST.AUGUSTINE TO THE FORT THERE FOR SAFETY. AT THAT TIME GERONIMO, THE INDIAN CHIEF WAS HELD CAPTURE. THE INDIANS HAD A DIFFICULT TIME ADAPTING TO THE FLORIDA CLIMATE TILL THEY WERE LOSING WEIGHT. GRANDMA PEG LEG TOOK CARE OF GERONIMO. WHEN IT WAS SAFE TO RETURN, THEY CAME BACK TO NASSAU COUNTY. FAMILY SAID SHE LIVE A LONG LIFE RAISING HER CHILDREN BECAUSE HER HUSBAND WAS KILLED AT A BARN RISING. A FIGHT BROKE OUT AND HE RAN TO GET HER AND WAS SLASHED ACROSS THE STOMACH WHERE LATER HE DIED OF THE KNIFE WOUND AT A YOUNG AGE. HE WAS VERY PROTECTIVE OVER HER. AFTER THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND, HER SON-IN-LAW JOHN CARROLL TOOK OVER WHITTLING HER A NEW PEG LEG. GRANDMA PEG LEG MAY NOT HAD LIVE LONGER THAN WHAT THE DATES SHOW ON HER HEADSTONE. SOME SAY 120 YRS OLD.BUT NOT SURE. CENSUS DATES SHOW DIFFERENT (THEY ARE POSSIBLY RIGHT) THAN HER HEADSTONE. THIS WHAT FAMILY MEMBERS HAS TOLD THROUGH THE YEARS.... KAREN MATHIS HUDSON
I HAD TO REPHRASE MY STORY REGARDING HER BIRTH & DEATH DATES. BE NICE!!! THANK YOU.
Marriage Date 10 June 1855, Charlton County, Georgia, USA.
Wife of Joseph Henry Crews. Family stories say she lived to be 120 years old.
GRANDMA PEG LEG
PROVIEDED BY: Karen Mathis Hudson added this on 17 Jan 2012
Paul Hudson, Jr.added this on 8 Aug 2010
GRANDMA PEG LEG
SHE WAS CALLED GRANDMA PEG LEG, BECAUSE ONE OF HER LEG WAS SHORTER THAN THE OTHER. HER HUSBAND WOULD WHITTLE HER A LEG WHEN THAT ONE WORE DOWN. WHEN THE INDIANS WERE FIGHTING AGAINST THE WHITE PEOPLE,GRANDMA PEG LEG WOULD TAKE HER CHILDREN TO THE RIVER AND HIDE UNDER ROCKS TILL THE INDIANS WOULD PASS. GRANDMA PEG LEG AND HER CHILDREN, ALSO SURROUNDING NEIGHBORS WAS GATHERED UP BY THE ARMY AND TAKEN TO ST.AUGUSTINE TO THE FORT THERE FOR SAFETY. AT THAT TIME GERONIMO, THE INDIAN CHIEF WAS HELD CAPTURE. THE INDIANS HAD A DIFFICULT TIME ADAPTING TO THE FLORIDA CLIMATE TILL THEY WERE LOSING WEIGHT. GRANDMA PEG LEG TOOK CARE OF GERONIMO. WHEN IT WAS SAFE TO RETURN, THEY CAME BACK TO NASSAU COUNTY. FAMILY SAID SHE LIVE A LONG LIFE RAISING HER CHILDREN BECAUSE HER HUSBAND WAS KILLED AT A BARN RISING. A FIGHT BROKE OUT AND HE RAN TO GET HER AND WAS SLASHED ACROSS THE STOMACH WHERE LATER HE DIED OF THE KNIFE WOUND AT A YOUNG AGE. HE WAS VERY PROTECTIVE OVER HER. AFTER THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND, HER SON-IN-LAW JOHN CARROLL TOOK OVER WHITTLING HER A NEW PEG LEG. GRANDMA PEG LEG MAY NOT HAD LIVE LONGER THAN WHAT THE DATES SHOW ON HER HEADSTONE. SOME SAY 120 YRS OLD.BUT NOT SURE. CENSUS DATES SHOW DIFFERENT (THEY ARE POSSIBLY RIGHT) THAN HER HEADSTONE. THIS WHAT FAMILY MEMBERS HAS TOLD THROUGH THE YEARS.... KAREN MATHIS HUDSON
I HAD TO REPHRASE MY STORY REGARDING HER BIRTH & DEATH DATES. BE NICE!!! THANK YOU.
Marriage Date 10 June 1855, Charlton County, Georgia, USA.
GRANDMA PEG LEG
PROVIEDED BY: Karen Mathis Hudson added this on 17 Jan 2012
Paul Hudson, Jr.added this on 8 Aug 2010
GRANDMA PEG LEG
SHE WAS CALLED GRANDMA PEG LEG, BECAUSE ONE OF HER LEG WAS SHORTER THAN THE OTHER. HER HUSBAND WOULD WHITTLE HER A LEG WHEN THAT ONE WORE DOWN. WHEN THE INDIANS WERE FIGHTING AGAINST THE WHITE PEOPLE,GRANDMA PEG LEG WOULD TAKE HER CHILDREN TO THE RIVER AND HIDE UNDER ROCKS TILL THE INDIANS WOULD PASS. GRANDMA PEG LEG AND HER CHILDREN, ALSO SURROUNDING NEIGHBORS WAS GATHERED UP BY THE ARMY AND TAKEN TO ST.AUGUSTINE TO THE FORT THERE FOR SAFETY. AT THAT TIME GERONIMO, THE INDIAN CHIEF WAS HELD CAPTURE. THE INDIANS HAD A DIFFICULT TIME ADAPTING TO THE FLORIDA CLIMATE TILL THEY WERE LOSING WEIGHT. GRANDMA PEG LEG TOOK CARE OF GERONIMO. WHEN IT WAS SAFE TO RETURN, THEY CAME BACK TO NASSAU COUNTY. FAMILY SAID SHE LIVE A LONG LIFE RAISING HER CHILDREN BECAUSE HER HUSBAND WAS KILLED AT A BARN RISING. A FIGHT BROKE OUT AND HE RAN TO GET HER AND WAS SLASHED ACROSS THE STOMACH WHERE LATER HE DIED OF THE KNIFE WOUND AT A YOUNG AGE. HE WAS VERY PROTECTIVE OVER HER. AFTER THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND, HER SON-IN-LAW JOHN CARROLL TOOK OVER WHITTLING HER A NEW PEG LEG. GRANDMA PEG LEG MAY NOT HAD LIVE LONGER THAN WHAT THE DATES SHOW ON HER HEADSTONE. SOME SAY 120 YRS OLD.BUT NOT SURE. CENSUS DATES SHOW DIFFERENT (THEY ARE POSSIBLY RIGHT) THAN HER HEADSTONE. THIS WHAT FAMILY MEMBERS HAS TOLD THROUGH THE YEARS.... KAREN MATHIS HUDSON
I HAD TO REPHRASE MY STORY REGARDING HER BIRTH & DEATH DATES. BE NICE!!! THANK YOU.
Marriage Date 10 June 1855, Charlton County, Georgia, USA.
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