SANFORD MONROE CRICK
By Kittie Carlton Williams

Sanford Monroe Crick, born 9 Nov 1861, was the only son of Gideon Crick, born 15 April 1837, and Mary A Patterson, born 7 Nov 1840, grandson of Newton Cannon Crick and Cynthia Pope, who were parents of eight children: Alfred, Nancy, Charlie, Martha, Mary Ann, Christiana, Lanenia, and F Gideon. Monroe became a cripple at the age of four cause by a disease known as white swelling and now as polio. Sanford Monroe Crick's father, Gideon Crick, the only one of the eight to remain in the Versailles area, was killed in battle 31 July 1864, during the Civil War.
Monroe Crick walked with the help of a cane, attended school, became a teacher, married 18 Dec 1894, Cassie Joe Carlton, born 24 March 1868. In 1884, Monroe Crick was the first teacher in the New Simmons School located on the same site as it stands today, the Rocky Glade Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Kitty Carlton Williams, a niece, has three of his teaching certificates (1884 - 1889 - 1890).
Later Monroe Crick was elected Trustee of Rutherford County for two terms, moved from Versailles to a house located on the Civil War battlefield, and afterwards became bookkeeper at the Murfreesboro Power and Light Co.