{"id":3035,"date":"2013-03-22T18:26:41","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T18:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/?page_id=3035"},"modified":"2013-03-22T15:41:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T19:41:03","slug":"letter-criner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/henderson\/private-letters\/letter-criner\/","title":{"rendered":"J. C. Criner – 14 Feb 1940"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n[I was given a copy of these letters by another Criner researcher. I believe they were in the possession of and transcribed by Pauline Jones Gandrund. These letters were typed just as they appear. Nothing was changed and only notes added were added as foot
\nnotes. Joseph Christopher Criner added notes within the letter himself.
\n
Please contact me directly about any of the immediate family of CRINER, GALLOWAY & STANFIELD. I\u2019ll be glad to swap information on just these families. Don\u2019t have a lot on the others.]
\n
Mandy Queen, awqueen@bellsouth.net<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

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\r\nHouston, Texas\r\nFeb. 14, 1940\r\n\r\nDear Miss MOORE,\r\n\tI appreciated your letter of Jan. 21 very much.\r\n\tMy two brothers and I still own the old CRINER land in \r\nChester County, Tennessee that my great grandfather, John CRINER, \r\nsettled on about 1823.  I arrive at the date 1823 as follows: \r\nMy uncle H.D. (Dug) CRINER told me that his father told him that he \r\nwas too young to be positive, but judged that he (John Anderson CRINER) \r\nwas about six years of age when his father and mother \r\n(John and Elizabeth GALLOWAY CRINER) moved from Lincoln Co. to \r\nHenderson Co (now Chester Co).  My grandfather (John A. CRINER) \r\nwas born Feb 23, 1817 in Lincoln Co. Tenn.\r\n\r\n\tMy uncle Dug CRINER has told me more than once how his \r\ngrandfather happened to move to Henderson Co.  A horse had strayed \r\nfrom the Lincoln Co. home and he started out to recover it and after \r\nstaying on its trail a number of days he caught up with it in Henderson Co. \r\non what is now the CRINER land. That land was then virgin soil and \r\nhad plenty of good water, which made it attractive.\r\n\r\n\tMy great grandfather was very favorably impressed with the \r\ncountry and so he determined to return to Henderson Co. and settle, \r\nwhich he later did, obtaining the land from the State of Tenn.\r\n\r\n\tThere is a family burying ground on the old CRINER homestead \r\nin Chester Co. but it has been forty years since any one was buried there.\r\n\t\t\r\n\tMy grandfather and grandmother CRINER lie there and their \r\ngraves well marked with dates of birth and death and in the case of my\r\n grandfather, the place of birth, i.e. Lincoln Co. Tenn.\r\n\r\n\tMy great grandfather and great grandmother are also buried there, \r\nbut their graves are not marked.  I do not know when they died, nor do \r\nI know the date of their births.\r\n\r\n\tThere was a times when I was a very young lad that I was \r\nshown where various ones were buried, but in the case of unmarked \r\ngraves, I cannot now recall which is which.\r\n\r\n\tThe oldest marker there is at the grave of Martha E. LONG, \r\nBorn July 5, 1822 died Feb. 21, 1853.\r\n\r\n\tMy great grandfather and great grandmother died so long ago \r\nthat there is no human living who ever saw them, so far as I have been \r\nable to determine.\r\n\r\n\tThey died long before my uncle Dug CRINER was born.  \r\nHe was born Oct. 9, 1853.\r\n\r\n\tHe (Uncle Dug)  talked with people who knew his grandparents \r\nand has told me that my great grandfather spoke with a very thick Scotch \r\naccent (Note: Don\u2019t see how it could have been Scotch, or even German, \r\nbecause even his father may not have been the first of the family in this \r\ncountry), so much so that people had difficulty understanding him. \r\nAlso that he was a very large man.\r\n\r\n\tAfter my grandmother\u2019s death, my mother and father lived \r\nwith my grandfather CRINER.  The home in which they all lived \r\nburned completely to the ground about 3 years before my grandfather\u2019s \r\ndeath.  He died at the age of 76 years.\r\n\r\n\tRecords that I would prize highly were lost in that fire.  \r\nIt was a severe loss in many ways.\r\n\t\r\n\tThere are no buildings on the land now.  The land has been \r\nidle for many years because we do not want any one using the land \r\nfor the pittance they are willing to pay.  It is a small farm now, but \r\noriginally it was several times larger than now.\r\n\r\n\tMy great grandmother, who was Elizabeth GALLOWAY, \r\nmay have had brothers and xxxxxx there may have been descendants \r\nin that vicinity now and those descendants might have some records.\r\n\r\n\tThe names of  brothers and sisters of my grandparents were\r\nrecorded as related to me by Uncle Dug CRINER.  Also the \r\ninformation that my great grandfather CRINER had brothers Isaac, \r\nGranville and others, whose names he could not recall with sufficient \r\nclearness to be positive. He also told me that his grandfather\u2019s brother \r\nsettled at Grand View, Texas; that is how I happened to stop at \r\nGrand View Cemetery in Dec. 1938 and began to look around for \r\nthe name of CRINER.\r\n\r\n\tUncle Dug also told me that Granville took slaves with him to \r\nTexas and that one of them was called \u201cBig Caesar\u201d.  There are some \r\nnegroes in Texas by the name of CRINER, whose forefathers were \r\nowned by CRINERS.  Some of the slaves took the name of CRINER \r\nafter the war between the States.\r\n\r\n\tMrs. TEMPLETON of Grand View Texas told me that the \r\nWHITING brothers who married CRINER sisters were Union soldiers \r\nfrom Iowa and that the marriages occurred during the war. \r\n(note: wrong. Both marriages occurred before the war)\r\n\r\n\tH.J. CRINER wrote that he was my name and address listed \r\nin some \u201cManufacturer\u2019s Magazine\u201d (Trade Journal, I presume) and \r\nwondered if we might be related.\r\n\r\n\tI replied to his letter, giving him my family history and other \r\ninformation, but never heard from him again,\r\n\r\n\tAbout 1908 there were (and probably are yet) some CRINERS \r\nliving in and around Ardmore, Okla. Who claimed to be part Indian.  \r\nThere are CRINERS in Little Rock and other parts of Ark. In Dec. 1937 \r\nI met a young man in Little Rock and talked with him briefly. He was \r\nevidently unable to recall more than one generation.\r\n\r\n\tI left my address with this young man, who was operating a \r\nservice station- McGUIRE & CRINER, 14th & Park Ave. Little Rock, Ark.  \r\nHe promised me to have some older member of the family write to me, \r\nbut I heard nothing more.\r\n\r\n\tI was in St. Louis in 1937 and noticed CRINER-STIEN Co. \r\nlisted in the telephone directory, but did not have time to investigate.\r\n\r\nYours very truly,\r\n\r\nJ.C. CRINER\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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