While he waited, Charles busied himself with church work, making a living, rearing a family and involving himself in the grist of life. A few glimpses of him are caught during the years between 1807 and 1816. In 1808, he received $10.50 for teaching Polly, Priscilla, and Lucretia Clark, the daughters of Thomas Clark. On February 9, 1808, he sold land to Robert Nichols. He appears in the third census of the United States in Newberry in 1810, the year he turned forty years of age. He obviously had an interest in education and, in 1811, he was appointed one of the first commissioners of the free schools of Newberry County created to educate poor children and orphans.
Crow's family expanded steadily during the first two decades of the 19th Century. He and Sarah Harlan were to have at least eleven children, ten of which were born in South Carolina.
The South Carolina born children were: The youngest child, Jesse M. Crow, was born on December 1, 1820, shortly after the Crows arrived in Perry County, Alabama.
Elizabeth (Betsy) December 15, 1797
Martha (Patsy) March 30, 1800
Silas Harlan March 7, 1803
Jane F. May 9, 1805
Elijah Palmer 1807
Mary 1809
Joshua B. November 10, 1810
Joseph W. W. February 7, 1813
Jonathan Jackson April 15, 1815
Rebecca A. June 9, 1817
