Gideon Crews Jr was the oldest son of Gideon Crews and Jemima Wicker Crews. He married three times - first in 1801 to Nancy Lloyd. She died and in 1805, he married Temperance LeMay. They had five children. After she died, he married Parthenia H. Heggie (widow of Daniel Glover) on 23 May 1853.

In Sketches... by T.T. Hicks, he writes

Gideon Crews, Jr. married Temperance LeMay. Their children were: 1. Franklin Crews, who married first _______ Ellis, sister of John Ellis, who bore him Alex Crews, James B. Crews, _______ wife of Thomas Norwood, William or Buck Crews. She dying, Franklin Crews married Hannah Hunt. Of this marriage were born Robert Crews, Wesley Crews and Eugene T. Crews. Robert and Wesley only died without issue. The other children of Gideon Crews, Jr., were Henry Crews, Patsy Breedlove, Harriet Sears, Lucy, wife of Solomon Cottrell.

Gid, Jr., in those days at times liked a timely dram. Our mother used to tell us that he would come to her father’s in a condition which made him merry and full of fun. The children would surround him when he was thus tipsey and ask him to tell them a story. Then he would tell them the story of the Irishman’s dog, viz.: “One day there was an Irishman in the woods hewing with a broad axe. His dog chased a rabbit. The rabbit came running right by where the man was hewing, and the dog in hot pursuit. The dog passed under the axe just as the man brought it down. It split the dog open from the tip of his nose to the end of his tail. The man was distressed at the accident, but being an Irishman and quick witted, he snatched up both halves of the dog and slapped them back together. The operation was so quick and the dogs blood so hot, that the two parts stuck together and grew, and the dog jumped out of his master’s hand and renewed the chase and soon caught the rabbit. But the man in his haste to save the dog had made the mistake to turn two feet up and two feet down, and the dog found that he could run on two feet until they got tired and then whirl over and run on the other two, and so he could catch anything in the woods, and could run forever.”


Census:1810 Granville NC, living next to his father
Census:1820 Granville NC, 3 white males, 3 white females; 1 male slave, 2 female slaves
Census:1830 Granville NC, 11 male slaves, 7 females
Census:1840 Granville NC, 2 males, 2 females and 5 male slaves and 6 females
Census:1850 20 Aug - Granville NC Ragland District; with wife Temperance and grandson William age 7, living next door to Henry Crews (his son), wife Sarah and family.

According to a letter he "Died very suddenly on rising one morning from bed sitting on the side of the bed and reached for his pants that was on a chair nearby and his spleen broke and he died in a few minutes"

His will leaves to (his son) Benjamin F. Crews..."a Negro slave named Jane about twenty years old"..to Manson Breedlove (his son-in-law) ".. a certain Negro woman slave named Susan about twenty one years old and child Gilbert" and to (son-in-law) John Sears, "A certain Negro girl slave named Emily about twenty-two years old and her child Mary.." .

Some records show he was buried in Oak Hill Church Cemetery where his last wife Parthenia is buried. Others say that those burial records are incorrect and that Gideon Crews and Temperance Lemay's gravesite is located in the family graveyard on the family's former property in Lewis Station, Oxford. It is stated that in addition to the headstones, etc., there are other relations buried at this location, as well as numerous unmarked graves that are almost certainly the graves of slaves. Possibly there is more than one section to the family graveyard, because there are no markers in this part of it.

But the controversy has been settled by Kenneth Fawcett (#47606610) who photographed his tombstone.