Excerpts from "The Life of P.A. Crenshaw" (his autobiography)

"My brother Dock and I came to Gonzales Co. and worked for 50 cents a day. We stayed there one yr. then went to Bee Co and I worked 1 whole yr. for a Spanish pony. Then I went back to Gonzales with a herd of cattle, on to Soloman, Kans. We herded the cattle on a prairie for about 4 mo. until they got fat, before we could dispose of them. I came to Kerr Co. in 1869"

" I have been married twice. My first wife was Mellie Burleson and we had nine children. We lived on the Bear Creek place until my 6th child was born and I bought a
place on the mouth of Indian Creek and there three other children were born. I lost my wife when my baby was 18 mo. old. I married again in 1901 this time to Dora Champion and we had 7 children. I grubbed 100 acres by myself. In those days hands were scarce. We had to cut all our grain by hand with a hand cradle. Bob Saner and I cut 40 acres one yr. and Ben Porter tied for Saner and my brother Carey tied for me. And they had to tie the grain with straw as there wasn't any strings. When we worked out, we worked with our team for a dollar a day. My father was a doctor and also a sheriff at one time. He drove 7 head of oxen. I had 5 brothers and 4 sisters. I was one of the pallbearers for Captain Tivy."

Kerrville Mt. Sun January 10, 1935
Rites Held for P.A. Crenshaw, Pioneer of Kerr Citizen of the County for 60 years Succumbs to Pneumonia Funeral services for Pleasant Antony Crenshaw, 84, were held Saturday in the chapel of Smith Funeral Home, with Rev. H.N. Smith, pastor of the First Baptist Church, officiating. Rites at the grave were under auspices of Kerrville Lodge No. 697, AF & AM Burial was in Nichols Cemetery under direction of Smith Funeral Home. Active pallbearers were: Dr. E. Galbraith, Roy Kemp, John R. Leavell, J.L. Sowers, Ray Buffington and R. Holdsworth.

Mr. Crenshaw died early last Friday at this home on Indian Creek, near Ingram, after being stricken with pneumonia. On December 31, he fell from a bluff near his home and
later contracted the malady which resulted in his death.

Born in Newton Co, Mississippi, April 19, 1850, Pleasant Anthony Crenshaw came to Kerr County in 1889 (actually 1869), when there were not more than 20 houses in the village of Kerrville. His father was a physician in Mississippi and two of his brothers gave their lives to the lost cause during the Civil War. Settling on Indian Creek, Mr. Crenshaw underwent many of the frontier hardships
experienced by pioneers of the Guadalupe Valley. He was the oldest member of the Kerrville Masonic Lodge.

Surviving are his widow and 14 children, as follows; Jay Crenshaw, Dinuba, Calif.; Mrs. A.L. Archer, Kerrville; Steve Crenshaw, Oregon; Mrs. Barsha McWhorter, Waxahachie; Mrs. Felix Susen, Eldorado; Mrs. Joe Council, Mercedes; Mrs. Otto Hein, Kerrville; John Crenshaw, Ingram; Frank Crenshaw; Ingram; Mrs. John Carson, Texon; Bryan Crenshaw,
Ingram; Mrs. M.R. Hamrick, San Angelo; P.A. Crenshaw Ingram; Fowler Crenshaw, Ingram. Sixty-five grandchildren and great grandchildren also survive the octogenarian.

Above information from Find A Grave contributor Cathy Morgan: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=mr&MRid=47514740