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S. L. Crownover, the senior member of the firm of S. L. Crownover & Co., was born in Rover in 1847, his parents, Henry T. and Jane (Briggs) Crownover, of South Carolina, came to Yell County with their parents prior to 1840, where they were married about 1845, and located on a farm near Danville, where the father was accidentally killed by a horse in 1859, the mother still living and residing in Texas. The principal of this biography was raised on a farm and educated in the common schools, and at the age of twenty began farming for himself, and in 1870 started merchandising at Bluffton, which he conducted for fourteen years; then was two years at Briggsville, where he was appointed postmaster, when he moved the business to Rover, and carries a stock of $6,000, which brings in a trade of $12,000 annually, drawing customers from all along the valley of the Fourche. His personal property consists of a storehouse, 24x50, two dwellings in town, and 1,200 acres of fine river bottom land with 350 cultivated and improved, and it is all due to hard work and good management. He was married in 1872 to Miss Nannie T. Burt, daughter of W. T. Burt, of South Carolina, and who has borne him eight children: Mary Ida, Sydney B. (deceased), John Wyatt (deceased), Ada Bell, Penelope May, Pearl Ladonia, Erne and William Leander. Mrs. Crownover is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and socially he belongs to the A. F. & A. M., having joined Rover Lodge No. 467, and politically is a stanch Democrat, doing all in his power for its success, and has represented his State in convention twice.