The History of the Yakima Valley, Washington, Comprising Yakima, Kittitas and
Benton Counties, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1919, Volume II, page 455

WESLEY P. CREWS.

Wesley P. Crews, who is engaged in general farming and to some extent in fruit
raising at Tieton, was born in Livingston county, Missouri, April 30, 1853, a
son of Dawson T. and Margaret (Yates) Crews. The father was born in Madison
county, Kentucky, and the mother in Howard county, Missouri. The paternal
grandfather was Robert Crews, of Kentucky and of Scotch descent. He became one
of the pioneer settlers of Missouri, establishing his home there at a very
early day, and Dawson T. Crews and Margaret Yates were the first couple married
in Medicine township, Livingston county. The mother died in Missouri and the
father spent his last days in the Boise valley of Idaho.

Wesley P. Crews acquired a public school education in Missouri, pursuing his
studies in one of the old-time log schoolhouses with its slab desks and rude
seats around the walls. He took up the occupation of farming in his native state
and in 1872 went to Burlington, Iowa, where he remained for a year, engaged in
the livery business. He next turned his attention to farming in Lee county,
Iowa, where he remained for eight years, after which he returned to Livingston
county, Missouri. In 1902 he came to Yakima county, where he lived for three
years on the Splawn ranch, and in 1904 he took up a homestead of sixty-six,
acres under the Tieton. He has three acres planted to orchard and the balance of
his land is devoted to general farming, in which connection he makes a specialty
of the raising of alfalfa, beets and potatoes.

On the 10th of September, 1893, Mr. Crews was married to Miss Margaret Elizabeth
Thompson, who was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, in 1870, a daughter of Thomas
and Elizabeth (Boyd) Thompson, the father also a native of Pickaway county,
Ohio, while the mother was born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. The grandfather of
Mrs. Crews was John Thompson, a native of Ireland, who came to the United States
in young manhood. Her father went to Missouri in February, 1883, and in 1901
came to Yakima county, where he purchased a farm on the Cowiche, there residing
until his death, which occurred August 19, 1913, when he was seventy-seven
years of age. His wife died February 17, 1914, at the age of seventy-nine years.
Mr. and Mrs. Crews have become the parents of three children: Thompson; Robert,
a student of veterinary surgery; and Paul.

The religious faith of the family is that of the Methodist church and in
politics Mr. Crews maintains an independent position, voting for men and
measures rather than party. His wife is a woman of artistic temperament and well
known locally as a writer of both prose and poetry. It was Mrs. Crews who
established the first Sunday school in Tieton in 1907 and she has been very
active in the social life of the community.

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Submitted to the Washington Bios Project in December 2007 by Jeffrey L. Elmer.
Submitter has no additional information about the subject of this article.