When Susan Elizabeth Crews was born on 7 November 1861, in Early Branch, Hampton, South Carolina, United States, her father, Jeremiah Benjamin Crews, was 24 and her mother, Ann Elizabeth Owens, was 27. She married William Clark Davis on 22 December 1892, in Early Branch, Hampton, South Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Hampton, South Carolina, United States in 1910 and Coosawhatchie, Jasper, South Carolina, United States in 1920. She died on 7 June 1925, in Ridgeland, Jasper, South Carolina, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Ridgeland, Jasper, South Carolina, United States.
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English (Devon and Cornwall): variant of Cruse .
Americanized form of German and Danish Kruse or Dutch Kroes .
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