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A Brant Crow 1915

A Brant Crow had a brother Richard Crow. A Crow died on July 10, 1915 in Knobel, Clay County, Arkansas United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember A Brant Crow.

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A. B. Crow died with his brother Richard Crow on July 10th 1915 right outside Knobel Arkansas when a train struck and killed them both.
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Newspaper article about Richard & A. B. Crow's death in 1915

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Newspaper article about Richard & A. B. Crow's death in 1915

The following letter was written by "G. D. Crow", father of Richard and A.B. Crow after the death of his two sons in Knobel, Arkansas.

Declares His Boys Were Murdered.
Lafe, Ark., July 12, 1915

To the Editor:
I read an article in last week's Soliphone about the death of the Crow brothers that is misleading and partly untrue. I am the father of the Crow boys and am prompted to write this and ask you to publish it.

The oldest son, A.B. Crow, would have been thirty years of age next September. The younger son, Richard, was seventeen years old on November 9, 1914. The elder brother lived at Sellmeyer and had three children. Richard lived here with his parents near Lafe. Richard had gone to spend July 4 with his brother, and they went to Knobel to get some groceries and a jug of whisky. The whisky belonged to four people. I don't believe they would have opened the jug until the other parties were present. The jug was broken in a sack with some bread. They were either not drinking or were not asleep. The time was too short for them to have reached the sleeping stage of drunkenness. One report indicates there was an eye witness to the tragdey (sp)and that the engineer on the train did see them and stopped, or almost stopped, the train within a few feet of them, and while they were making efforts to get off the track he pulled the throttle open and struck them instantly. They had no chance to escape, if this is true, and I believe it is. The engineer could not help knowing he had killed them, and did not have humanity enough to stop. It is my opinion it was a willful, cold-blooded murder, and that the engineer should suffer for it to the extent of the law. Railroad men should be made to respect human life, as well as other people. I have the above report of an eye witness from a reliable source and I think it is true.
Yours truly,
G.D. Crow.

Date & Place: July 12, 1915 in Knobel, Clay County, Arkansas 72435, United States

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Gaye Thomas

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07/03/2019

Russell Crow

Russell Crow was last seen leaving home (Arkansas) in 1915 with a jug of whiskey. His remains and those of his older brother, Brandt, were found near the railroad tracks, in pieces. Sad end for a boy

Admin Update 8/27/2020:
A few moments after sharing this photo Cheryl found the following 1915 article which we believe documents the death of the Crow Brothers. Please note his name was Richard and not Russell. Newspaper Article about the Crow Brothers death by train

Date & Place: 1915 in Arkansas United States

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AncientFaces

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08/27/2020

Russell Crow (shown here with his two dogs) and his older brother Brandt left their home in Arkansas with a jug of whiskey in 1915 and were never seen alive again. Their remains were found scattered around a railroad track. We can only assume that they drank a little heavily and fell asleep on the tracks before being killed by a train.

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Brenda Bilger

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08/27/2020

How terribly sad.

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Daniel Pinna

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08/27/2020

A Brant Crow

Husband and father to three children, brother to Richard "Dick" Crow tragically died along with his brother due to a train accident outside Knobel Arkansas.

Date & Place: in Knobel, Clay County, Arkansas 72435, United States

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Newspaper Article about the Crow Brothers death by train

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Newspaper Article about the Crow Brothers death by train

A few minutes after sharing Russell Crow Cheryl D. found the following article:

Asleep on Track; Two men killed
Crow Brothers Meet Horrible Death Near Knoble Late Last Saturday Night.

Two men named Crow, one thirty years of age and the other eighteen, were literally cut to pieces by the northbound Iron Mountain passenger train two miles south of Knobel about eleven forty-five Saturday night. The men, who were brothers, were asleep on the track. It is said the engineer on the passenger train did not see them and knew nothing of having killed the men until his train reached Knobel. The faithful dog, belonging to the elder Crow, was also killed, and a jug of whisky from which the brothers had evidently taken too frequent libations, was smashed by the train.

Cal Broadway of Jonesboro, claim agent for the Iron Mountain, spent yesterday in the vicinity of the tragedy gathering the facts. It is understood the men resided at Sellmeyer where the elder Crow worked a small farm. The younger brother resided with him. They spent much of their time hunting for the market. It is said the brothers went to Knobel Saturday night and got a jug of whisky they had ordered from Poplar Blugg. The supposition is they drank freely from the jug on their return home, and that they became drowsy from the effects of the intoxicants and lay down on the track to sleep. The dog and the jug were evidently close to the men when the train passed over them.

The elder Crow was married and leaves a wife and six children.

Date & Place: Not specified or unknown.

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