William Crutchfield (1683-1759) was born in Gloucester County. He married(1) Eleanor Saxton in 1708, (2) in 1728 a widow, Jane Stapleton Norman (c. 1715 - ?), daughter of Thomas Stapleton, (3) in about 1746 Rachel Isabel who is names as his Caroline County will named as executrix in 1757. Other researchers have provided a list of his children: William, Richard, William and John: Stapleton,Rachel, Mary, Henry and James; George, Martin, Margaret and Thomas. and Thomas.

       George Crutchfield was a minor (under 14) when his father William died in Caroline County, Virginia in 1757. His first guardians were Ambrose Lipscomb and Richard West. He was transferred to his older brother Stapleton in 1767. A patriot of the Revolution, his life before 1810 is a matter of conjecture: it was previously believed that he arrived in the Cumberland settlement of Tennessee in 1781 with the Donelson Flotilla accompanied by two brothers, John and William. Among these voyagers were also the two Overall sisters, Mary and Nancy. It now seems more possible that he was the George Crutchfield who purchased 135 acres in Halifax County, VA from William and Jane Lawson in 1784. In 1810 he was in Smith Co., Tennessee when he paid $400 to William Hogan for 210 acres and 25 poles on September 3, 1810. He also purchased land from Silas Williams in 1816. George's wife was Dorcas (Dicey) E_____ (Dicey). Their children were Lettice, Thomas, John, Mary (Polly), Sally and Samuel. George's will was probated in 1824. He and several members of his family are buried on the Kelly property on Hogan's Creek Road about 3 miles south of Highway 70 in the 14th District of Smith County. Only a few broken stones remain on this original site of Hogan's Creek Community Church where there were once 75 to 100 graves and many engraved memorial markers. [We are indebted to Richard Crotwell of New Bern, NC for new information about George Crutchfield's life which has given us a more accurate history of the family.]

       Samuel Crutchfield (1789-1832) was born in Halifax County. In 1814 he married Nancy Allen Maholland (1790-1858). She was the daughter of John Maholland and Lucy Smith. Their children were William, Dorcas, Sally, Lucy Smith, John, and George. He died in Wilson County, TN.    Their handsome brick home at Shop Springs burned some years ago and the site, as well as the abandoned family cemetery, is now impossible to locate.

       In 1847, their daughter Lucy Smith Crutchfield (1823-1901) married Asbury Overall (1820-1904) and they made their home in Franklin, Tennessee. Unfortunately their lives were disrupted and their property lost by the tragic events of the Civil War battles in their community and the defeat of the Confederacy.