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Are you sure she was born Miss.? I believe she was born in South Carolina, as was her first husband, Eli Smith, and she is either the younger sister or close cousin to my Lydia Crews. I have been researching the Crews family because Lydia Crews was my gr gr gr grandmother, she and her husband, William West, were both born in South Carolina as well, and they migrated to Rapides Parish, La.
Ann Crews Smith's daughter, Martha Jane, married a Collins in Rapides Parish, La and they made their home close to William West and Lydia. Martha Jane is buried in the same very small West cemetery. My Lydia only had one child, a son, named Madison West.
I speculate that as Ann died when her children were so young they naturally maintained a relationship with Lydia Crews. Martha Jane and her husband maintained a home close to William and Lydia for many years as shown by the census records.
Many people travelled/migrated from SC to La via Mississippi. The parents of Eli Smith moved back and forth between SC and Miss as evidenced by the birth places of their children.
Of particular significance to the research of this Crews line is the presence in 1850 in the household of William and Lydia Crews West of a young woman, aged 25, named Penelope Crews and her young son, Charles W.C. Crews. The name in the cenus is interpreted as Crose, but if you get real familiar with the following the Crews family in the census you will see use of the spelling Cruse and Crew and Crews amongst the same families.
There is a Crews genealogy deriving from Alexander Crews which recognizes a Penelope Crews and son, Charles, that fits very well. There is an odd disconect in finding this woman in the census with consistent age indications, but that happens. I believe this is my best clue to which Crews family Lydia comes from as well as Ann.
Further, Penelope Crews shows up later married to a Locklear in Florida, and there you will find many Crews' relations to the Alex and John Crews lines out of SC. To make it even more evident that there is a connection is the presence of Nathaniel Bryan(t)in Rapdes, La as a neighbor of William and Lydias, which children born in Florida. He is back in Florida by 1860 and Penelope is in Florida as well.
I would love to discuss this at length with you and know what you know about Ann Crews. I wonder if the naming of one son Thomas C. is perhaps a clue to her father's name. There is a Thomas Cruse in Amite, Miss in 1820.
I think the Crews', Smith's, and West's, and Bryant's may have all had old connections in SC.
I hope to hear back from you. Jimmie West
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