Children:
John McHenry (1823-1894)*
Benjamin Brown (1824-1897)*
wife: Harriet Brunt (1830-1903, marr. 1845)*
Matilda Jane [Threlkel] (1824-1906, marr. 1842)*
Walter Hamilton (1826-1906)*
William Parker (1828-1903)*
Elizabeth Jane (1830-1865)*
Isa Vinda Exene (1833-1851)*
Ira Minda Almarene (1833-1860)*
* Spent winter of 1846-47 in Pueblo
The Robert Crow and George Washington Threlkel families joined the Mississippi Saints' families from Mississippi and Alabama in Independence, MO in June 1846, and traveled west with that company. For purposes of this website, the Crow and Threlkel families are therefore treated as part of the Mississippi Saints Company. Matilda Jane Crow married George Washington Threlkel in 1842, thus forming the association between the Crow and Threlkel families.
These families are the first to leave Pueblo on April 17, 1847, probably in company with mountain man Lewis B. Myers, and meet the advance company that was traveling west with Brigham Young on June 1, 1847.
At the time that the Mississippi Saints migrated west, the Crow and Threlkel families consisted of 14 individuals, including: Robert Crow (father), Elizabeth Brown (mother), with their children John M., Benjamin B., Harriet Brunt (wife of Benjamin B.), Walter H., William P., Elizabeth J., Isa V., Ira M. and Matilda J. Threlkel (daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Crow and wife to George W. Threlkel), and George W. Threlkel (father), with children James W. and Milton H.
"When Robert Crow was born on 22 June 1794, in Greeneville, Greene, Tennessee, United States, his father, Benjamin Walter Crow, was 38 and his mother, Nancy Ann Gregg, was 36. He had at least 4 sons and 4 daughters with Elizabeth Brown. He lived in Placer, California, United States in 1852 and California, United States in 1870. He died on 29 May 1876, in Long Valley, Lassen, California, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Placer, California, United States."
Robert Crow "About" information found on www.familysearch.org
"Lewis Bloom Myers was a mountain man who worked as a scout for the Mississippi company. He left Utah by 1849 and settled in California. He was not a member of the Church."
Mountain man Lewis Bloom Myers appears to have escorted the Crow and Threlkel families when they left Pueblo on April 17, 1847. They were the first to meet members of the Brigham Young advance company as they came west in 1847. For more information about Bloom, go to:
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