{"id":692,"date":"2019-09-20T13:36:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T13:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/?p=692"},"modified":"2019-09-22T01:44:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T01:44:44","slug":"john-dees-buck-crews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waltonpast2present.com\/wp\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"John Dees “Buck” Crews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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John \u201cBuck\u201d Crews was a Deputy U.S. Marshall who was born in\nIsagora (Holmes County) on July 12, 1866, after his father, George Washington\nCrews, completed service in Company K of the 6th<\/sup> Alabama Cavalry. Buck\nmarried Annie Laura Ward on January 7, 1889, in Isagora. Annie Laura was born\nin Red Bay to William Joe \u201cDiamond Joe\u201d Ward and Abseybeth Purvis Ward on July\n18, 1867. Buck and Annie Laura had nine children, but one died in infancy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buck Crews was shot by accident while crossing St. Andrews\nBay (Bay County) in order to participate in a raid on an illegal liquor still. Other\nMarshalls were with him when a rifle discharged and hit Crews in his side. He\nwas taken to his home in Bonifay where he died several days later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Buck’s family<\/g> believed a moonshiner on board the boat shot him on purpose, but there was no corroborating evidence for that story and no one was charged with his death. In 1998, his name was added to the National Law Enforcement Memorial in Arlington, Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annie Laura Crews eventually remarried and died in Jacksonville on January 14, 1945, but she was buried next to Buck in the Dead River Cemetery, which was originally known as the Miller Cemetery.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Burial: Dead River Cemetery<\/a>, Bruce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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