From Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Southern Arkansas, Vol II, pg 1073
John T. Crenshaw is a native Tennesseean, born November 30, 1847, and is a son of Dr. William
Crenshaw, of Scotch parentage, born, reared and educated in the State of Tennessee. He was an
eminent physician and surgeon, a graduate, of the Louisville Medical College, and also graduated
from the literary department of a Nashville (Tenn.) college. About the year 1850 he removed to
Louisiana, and settled in Avoyelles Parish, the country at that time being almost a wilderness, and
here actively practiced his profession for about ten years, after which he retired from the
profession and gave his attention to agricultural pursuits. He became a very extensive planter, and
at one time owned two large plantations, but during the war, was almost ruined financially, and in
1868 came to Arkansas, and resumed the practice of medicine in Drew County, continuing until his
death, in 1878. Ho was a Democrat, and although not a member of any church, was a man of strict
morality. He was married in Tennessee to Miss Henrietta E. Mickelberry, a native of Shelby County,
and by her became the father of two children: John T. and Hattie E. (wife of H. C. Petticord). Mrs.
Crenshaw was a daughter of John Mickelberry, and died January 5, 1852. After her death Dr. Crenshaw
married a Mrs. Ross, by whom he had a family of two sons and seven daughters: Sallie, Mary,
Benjamin, Mattie, Marcia, Bradley and Clara (living), and Susan and James (deceased).
John T. Crenshaw received the principal part of his education in Louisiana, but in i860 attended
college in Lebanon, Tenn. During the latter part of the war he served for about six months in the
Second Louisiana Cavalry, and afterward, in 1867, started out in life for himself, as a planter and
plantation manager in Louisiana, but in 1869 removed to Arkansas, and settled iu Chicot County,
where he became a salesman and depot agent. After about a year spent in this manner, he entered
mercantile life on his own account, continuing until 1884, since which time he has been a salesman
and cotton buyer, and to some extent engaged in farming, being the owner of two small farms in
Chicot County. Besides this, he owns some good business property in the town of Dermott, and as a
business man, is intelligent and active, and enjoys the respect and confidence of the citizens among
whom he has so long lived. While in Shelby County, Tenn., he was married, November 28, 1875. to Miss
Susan E. Adams, a native of De Soto County, Miss., though reared in the former county. She is a
daughter of Collin and Francina (Brown) Adams, Tennesseeans, born May 26, 1814, and January 5, 1815,
respectively, and are now residents of Memphis, Tenn. Mrs. Crenshaw was educated in this city. Her
union with Mr. Crenshaw has resulted in the birth of two sons and one daughter: William T., Ruby F.
and Agnew G.