Robert Edward Crowder

Brief Life History of Robert Edward

When Robert Edward Crowder was born on 20 July 1880, in Maury, Tennessee, United States, his father, Robert B Crowder, was 34 and his mother, Nancy Elizabeth Curry, was 31. He married Annie Alice Church on 15 November 1902, in Maury, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Civil District 10, Maury, Tennessee, United States for about 30 years. He died on 4 July 1943, in Hampshire, Maury, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hampshire, Maury, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

Robert Edward Crowder
1880–1943
Drucilla Crumley
1896–1972
Marriage: 25 January 1925
Lillie Mai Crowder
1903–
Mary Katherine Crowder
1911–1999
Robert Edward Crowder
1927–2019
Doris Crowder
1929–2024
Nadine Crowder
1931–2017
Joe Adley Crowder
1933–2013

Sources (22)

  • R Edward Crowder, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Robert Edward Crowder, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages, 1980-2015"
  • R E Crowder, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"

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1881 · The Assassination of James Garfield

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1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act

A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

Name Meaning

English: occupational name from Middle English crouder, crouther ‘player of the croud’, a stringed instrument sometimes known as the Welsh fiddle (Middle English croud, a borrowing of Welsh crwth). In Wales and in English counties bordering Wales the name may have been an Anglicized form of the equivalent Welsh crythor ‘fiddler’. The surname also occurs as Crowther .

Americanized form of German Krauter or its Dutch cognates Kruiter and Kruider.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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