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Randolph C. Crow, a prominent citizen of Lincoln County, Ark., was born in Barbour County, Ala., on January 16, 1845, being the son of Mathew M. and Melvina (Weaver) Crow. Mathew M. Crow was born in the State of South Carolina. While a youth he moved with his father to the State of Georgia, and thence to Barbour County, Ala., in 1842. Moving from that point, about the year 1854, to Drew County, Ark., he there spent the remainder of his life engaged in farming, in which he was very successful. His sympathies were with the South daring the late war. The father died June 10, 1863, and the mother died in June, 1865. To their union were born six children, four of whom are now living, viz.: Mary (wife of Wiley A. Seitzler), Thomas T., R. C, and Amanda (wife of John W. Brockman). Those dead are Mahala and Ebineezer. Randolph spent his school days in Arkansas. He took part in the late war, surrendering at Little Rock. Ark. At the close of the war Mr. Crow turned his attention to farming, an occupation which he has constantly followed up to date, in which he has been very successful. He owns some fine farms, which are well improved and managed in a most judicious manner. In 1869 the subject of this sketch married Miss Virginia Hutson, daughter of Rite Hutson. She was born in Drew County, Ark., in the year 1848, and died in Lincoln County in 1884. Their union was blessed with eight children, seven of whom are living: Viola, Ellen, Lizzie, Henry C, Thomas M., Walter R. and Ilia. Mr. Crow married, in 1886, Mrs. Ann E. Oneil, and to them was born one child— Amanda M. Mr. Crow is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and his wife belongs to the Christian Church. He is a member of the Wheel, a Mason, a Democrat, and was elected a justice of the peace in 1886, and re-elected in 1888, which office he still holds. Mr. Crow has taken great interest in the subject of education and the public schools in his district, and has held the office of school director for a term of twelve years.