STANDARD ATLAS
OF
SCOTT COUNTY, ILLINOIS
1903
Geo. A. Ogle & Co.Publishers & Engravers
134 Van Buren St.
Chicago
Page 137
There are few men in the county who are better known, or who have been more highly honored by the people among whom his life has been spent, than Charley Crisp. He is a son of William and Tabitha (Six) Crisp, and was born on a farm near Exeter, Scott county, Illinois, March 1,1 855. His father was born in Wilson county Tennessee, June 25, 1822, and came with his parents to Illinois, settling in Scott, then Morgan county, March 20, 1829. His wife Tabitha Six, was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Six and was born February 6, 1831. They were married May 14, 1848, and became the parents of five children, one son and four daughters. Two fo the girls are dead.
Our subject was reared upon a farm near Oxville, to which his parents moved a couple of years after his birth. He worked about the farm and was educated at the district school in the neighborhood. July 19, 1874, he was married to Miss Martha I. Taylor, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Taylor. She was born in Scott county, December 28, 1856, and has spent her life here.
Ever since he attained his majority he has held public and quasi-public positions. From 1874 to 1890 he taught school in Scott county - sixteen consecutive years - all this time in or adjacent to, the neighborhood where he lived. IN 1879 he was elected county surveyor. He was then town treasurer and for one year term was justice of the peace in Oxville precinct. Between the years of 1890 and ‘94 he was assessor and treasurer of Scott county, and from 1894 to 1898 he was county clerk. He then served two years as deputy clerk, during the incumbency of J. B. Thompson, and in 1900 was elected to the office of circuit clerk and recorder, which position he is now filing. He is a member of the Knights of Pythias and has had showered upon him all the honors within the gift of that organization. He is also a Woodman and participates in the "log rollings" of that body. He has never lived anywhere except Scott county, has kept his record clean and regards sacred the trusts which the people repose in him.