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Bluford Azeri Crowder

Bluford Azeri Crowder

Male 1825 - 1879  (53 years)

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  • Name Bluford Azeri Crowder  [1
    Born 23 Apr 1825  Alabama, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Census 1830  Giles County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Robt Crowder household
    2 males 5 to 10 [Bluford abt 5, Jephtha abt 6]
    2 males 10 to 15 [Terrill T. abt 10, unknown male]
    1 male 20 to 30 [John Crowder abt 24]
    1 male 50 to 60 [Robert Crowder abt 52]
    1 female under 5 [Faithy Jane abt 3]
    3 females 15 to 20 [Temperance, Lydia, Kearney]
    1 female 40 to 50 [wife] 
    Census 1840  Giles County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Robt Crowder
    1 male 5 to 10 [Robert Wesley abt 7]
    1 male 10 to 15 [Bluford abt 15, Jeptha abt 15]
    2 males 15 to 20 [Terrill and unknown male]
    1 male 60 to 70 [Robert Crowder abt 62]
    1 female 10 to 15 [Faithy Jane abt 13]
    1 female 20 to 30 [Temperance - age uncertain]
    2 females 30 to 40 [Lydia, Kerney - ages unknown]
    1 female 50 to 60 [wife]
    0 slaves
    4 persons engaged in agriculture 
    Census 15 Nov 1850  District 18, Giles County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    1. Crowder, Bluford A., 25, male, farmer, [no real estate value], Alabama
    2. _____, Jane, 23, female, Tennessee
    3. _____, Martha Ann, 4, female, Tennessee
    4. _____, Joshua T., 1 male, Tennessee 
    Census 13 Sep 1860  Hammonds Store, Southern Division, Giles County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    1. Crowder, Bluford A., 35, married, farmer, real estate $1200, personal $408, Alabama
    2. _____, Jane E., 38, female,Tennessee
    3. _____, Joshua T., 11, male, Tennessee, attending school
    4. _____, Elizabeth J., 9, female, Tennessee, attending school
    5. _____, Faithy M., 8, female, Tennessee, attending school
    6. _____, Phebea T., 2, female, Tennessee
    7. Tacker, Martha A., [15? 16?], female, Tennessee 
    MILITARY 18 Oct 1862  Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Enlisted by Capt. Jim Rivers for a period of 3 years of during the war. Private, Co K, 11 Reg't Tennessee Cavalry (Holman's). Testimony in his war reparations record indicates that he was an unwilling soldier, who was in fact conscripted into Confederate service, but had always sympathized with the Union cause. This may be true, or it may have been so stated to assist his case, to obtain reimbursement for horses, mules and other items take from him by the Union forces in Oct and Dec of 1864. 
    Military Feb 1863  [6
    Taken prisoner; remarks in Military record: "Captured at Fort Donalson, Feb'y 3rd 1863. Deserted - "
    Sent 6 Feb 1863 from Fort Donelson to Louisville, KY.
    Sent 11 Feb 1863 from Louisville, KY to Citi Point, James River, VA.
    Feb 15 "appears on a Roll of Prisoners of War at Fort McHenry, Md., sent to Fortress Monroe, Va., for exchange by order of Major General Schenck, Feb'y 15, 1863." [This is the final entry in his service record.] 
    Military 3 Feb 1863  Fort Donelson, Stewart County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Taken prisoner; remarks in Military record: "Captured at Fort Donalson, Feb'y 3rd 1863. Deserted - "
    Sent 6 Feb 1863 from Fort Donelson to Louisville, KY.
    Sent 11 Feb 1863 from Louisville, KY to Citi Point, James River, VA.
    Feb 15 "appears on a Roll of Prisoners of War at Fort McHenry, Md., sent to Fortress Monroe, Va., for exchange by order of Major General Schenck, Feb'y 15, 1863." [This is the final entry in his service record.] 
    Military 1 Mar 1864  Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Bluford took the Federal Oath of Allegiance in Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee; it was administered by the Provost Marshall, L.D. Bennett, of the 38th Iowa. 
    Anecdote Oct 1864  Giles County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Another of the stories that came to us from Della is the story of the Union soldier and the syrup pail. In her words, again (written to her daughter, Fartha Lonnem): "That syrup pail row you spoke of was between Grandma Crowder and a Union soldier. She had seen them take every vessel they could find to carry out maple syrup in, even the soap pail. But when they started with the last water pail she held on and in the struggle grabbed syrup and rubbed in his face and eyes then upset the pail pouring part of it on him, and was crying on the step as he went away with the pail. Then a Union soldier she had made a chicken soup dinner for when he came to her near sick and asked for it, came and asked what's the matter and she told him 'that man is carrying away the last pail I have to carry water from the spring'; and right away he called to the guy 'Bring that pail back to her or (drawing his 45) I'll shoot your damned brains out,' and he turned and brought it back. The Union army was camped 1/2 mile from the place and had run out of provisions and they took 40 head of fattening hogs and sheep and geese and cattle and long years after Grandpa was gone (I was 10 yr or so) Grand Ma got $500 in gold collected from the Govt by a lawyer A.W. Wills for collecting it. Grand Pa would have used some to keep well if he'd been paid earlier...." 
    Military 18 Oct 1864  Giles County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    General Croxton's troops passed through the area, camping for a time on or near the Crowder farm in Giles County, Tennessee. They took a gray horse, and a bay mule, among other things. 
    Military 27 Dec 1864  Giles County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    General Hatch requisitions property, 27 Dec 1864, Giles County, Tennessee. 133
    General Hatch's troops passed through the area, at the time of what was known as "Hood's Raid," taking from the Crowder farm a yellow horse and a dun colored mule. 125 bushels of corn, 4000 pounds fodder, 15 bushels of oats. 
    Court 7 Aug 1865  Giles County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    James G. Marbut elected Constable in District Number Four, gave Bond of $8,000. Securities: Thomas H. Noblett, Bluford A. Crowder and John Q. Gibbons. 
    Census 10 Jul 1870  Cane Creek, Epps township, Butler County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    1. Crowder, Clifford [Bluford] A., male, white, farmer, [no real estate value], personal $579, Alabama
    2. _____, Jane E., 47, female, white, keeping house, Tennessee
    3. Tacker, Martha, 26, female, white, house servant, Tennessee
    4. _____ [Crowder], Joshua, 21, male, white, laborer, Tennessee
    5. _____ [Crowder], Elizabeth, 18, female, white, at home, Tennessee
    6. _____ [Crowder], Faith, 15, female, white, at home, Tennessee
    7. _____ [Crowder], Pheeby, 12, female, white, at home, Tennessee
    8. Tidewell [Tidwell], John, 21, male, white, laborer, Tennessee

    [The enumerator's surname marks appear to indicate that the next four children following Martha Tacker share her surname. They are, however, actually the children of Bluford Crowder and their surname should be Crowder. Possibly that was the enumerator's intention with the dashes, or possibly he believed their names to be Tacker.] 
    Homestead Application 2 Nov 1872  Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    The claim was finished after his death by his wife, Jane E. (Tidwell) Crowder. Legal description: Southwest quarter Section 31, Township 27, Range 7 west, in Howell County, Missouri. 
    Homestead 7 Nov 1872  Chapel township, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [12
    Bluford and Jane Crowder moved onto their homestead claim on this date; the property had a log cabin which had been built in 1869, according the the homestead proof testimony; since they were living in Butler County, Missouri, in 1869, it was probably not built by them, but by someone who had lived there previously. 
    Died 13 Mar 1879  Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Census 17 Jun 1880  Goldsberry township, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [13
    Bluford's wife, after his death

    1. Walker, N. Thomas, white, male, 22, married farming, Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee
    2. _____, F. Tennissee [Phoebe Tennessee], white, female, 22, wife, married, keeping house, Tennessee, Alabama, Tennessee
    3. _____, D. Eveline, white, female, 1, daughter, at home, Missouri, Tennessee, Tennessee
    4. Crowder, J. Eveline, white, female, 47, mother in law, widowed, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina 
    Court War Reparations. In the words of Aunt Della Walker: "The Union army was camped 1/2 mile from the place and had run out of provisions and they took 40 head of fattening hogs and sheep and geese and cattle and long years after Grandpa was gone (I was 10 yr or so) Grand Ma got $500 in gold collected from the Govt by a lawyer A.W. Wills for collecting it. Grand Pa would have used some to keep well if he'd been paid earlier...."  [8
    Newspaper Article 5 Jul 1888  Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [14
    From The Pulaski Citizen:

    \"Under Richardson\'s 4th of July claims bill which passed the houseSaturday and went to the senate, Giles county gets $2,875.87. Following is a list of claims from Giles county mentioned in the bill:
    . . . Thomas N. Walker, adm\'r of Bluford Crowder dec\'d, $520 . . . .\" 
    Religion Bluford had taught Sunday School, and was a believer before the war; after the War, he had become embittered, and often said, "All the heaven and hell we have is right here on earth."  [8
    Buried Walker Chapel Cemetery, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I89  Full
    Last Modified 26 Feb 2019 

    Father Robert Crowder,   b. Abt 1778, South Carolina, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1860, Giles County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 83 years) 
    Mother Childers,   b. Between 1780 and 1790,   d. Aft 1830  (Age ~ 51 years) 
    Married Y  [15
    Family ID F43  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Jane Eveline Tidwell,   b. 18 Nov 1822, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Aug 1889, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years) 
    Married Abt 1845  Giles County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [16, 17
    Children 
    +1. Joshua T. Crowder,   b. 23 May 1849, Giles County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Mar 1879, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 29 years)
     2. Elizabeth Jane Crowder,   b. 15 Jan 1851, Giles County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Mar 1879, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 28 years)
    +3. Faithy Malissa Crowder,   b. 7 Feb 1853, Giles County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Jun 1905, Butler County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 52 years)
    +4. Phoebe Tennessee "Tennie" Crowder,   b. 11 Jan 1858, Giles County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Apr 1913, Goldsberry township, Howell County, Missouri, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years)
     5. Bluford A. Crowder,   b. Between 1861 and 1862, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Sep 1863, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 2 years)
    Last Modified 30 Apr 2015 
    Family ID F36  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
    Robert Crowder household, 1830, Giles County, Tennessee, census
    Robert Crowder household, 1830, Giles County, Tennessee, census
    1830 U.S. census, Giles County, Tennessee, [no township stated], pp. 215 (penned, top left, first p.), [no stamped no.], line 16, Robt Crowder household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 10 March 2016); citing NARA microfilm publication M19, roll [not stated].
    Robert Crowder household, 1840 census, Giles County, Tennessee
    Robert Crowder household, 1840 census, Giles County, Tennessee
    1840 U.S. census, Giles County, Tennessee, [no township stated], [no penned no.], p. 127 (stamped), line 16, Robt Crowder household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 10 March 2016); citing NARA microfilm publication M704, roll [not stated].
    Robert Crowder household, 1850 census, Giles County, Tennessee
    Robert Crowder household, 1850 census, Giles County, Tennessee
    1850 U.S. census, Giles County, Tennessee, population schedule, District 18, p. 133 (penned), p. 791 (bold pen), p.396a (stamped), dwelling 84, family 84, Robert Crowder household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : downloaded 10 March 2016); citing NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 879.

  • Notes 
    • His eldest granddaughter, Della Eveline Walker, states that his middle name was "Azeri" - but she makes a note that she isn't sure how it was spelled.

      What a sadness it must have been for Bluford and Jane Crowder; they moved to Howell County, Missouri shortly before 1875. Within four years, three of their four children were dead. Only Phoebe Tennessee was left, which explains why she and her husband, Tom Walker, were the ones to assume the Crowder homestead.

      Reasons for leaving Tennessee.

      In Butler County, Missouri Moved to Howell Co? Joshua married Martha TAYLOR in Howell Co in Jan 1874, so they must have lived there for a few months, at least. Appears on Personal Property Tax Rolls for Howell Co MO in 1875, pg 15. In the 1874 Howell Co MO Personal Property Tax records, B.A. CROWDER was in possession of 3 horses, 0 mules, 7 cows, 2 hogs. [2, 18, 19, 20, 21]

  • Sources 
    1. [S25] Walker, Della - Documents, (The collected letters and documents of Della Eveline (Walker) Warren Lonnem (now deceased); these documents passed from Della Lonnem to her daughter, Faith (Lonnem) Quick; from Faith to her niece, Jesse Keenon (granddaughter of Della Lonnem); photocopied, 1996, in the possession of Janis Walker Gilmore (Pawleys Island, SC); original documents in the possession of Jesse Keenon (Muskogee, Oklahoma), 2007.).
      «i»Prior to the discovery of the materials left to us by Bluford's granddaughter, Della Evaline [Walker] Warren Lonnem, we knew only that the middle initial was "A," but not what it stood for. Della clearly states that his middle name was "Azeri," however, I have seen her family members refer to him as "Bluford Ezra Crowder." I do not think the latter is likely to be correct, since he appeared in so many places as "Bluford A. Crowder."«/i»

    2. [S41] Missouri, Howell - Cemetery, Walker Chapel, (County Road 2980, near Trask, Howell County, Missouri), marker for B.A. Crowder (Reliability: 4).
      B.A. Crowder, 25 April 1825 - 13 March 1879. [Buried with wife, Jane Eveline (Tidwell) Crowder]

    3. [S3971] 1850 U.S. census, Giles County, Tennessee, population schedule, District 18, p. 791 (penned), p. 1396 (stamped, recto), dwelling 86, family 86, Bluford A. Crowder household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 October 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 879.

    4. [S3972] 1860 U.S. census, Giles County, Tennessee, population schedule, Hammonds Store, Southern Subdivision, p. 180 (penned), p. 192 (stamped, verso), dwelling 1326, family 1303, Bluford A. Crowder household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 October 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1251.

    5. [S4878] B.A. Crowder, claim no. 1138, "Rent, Services, and Miscellaneous Claims," Records of the War Department, Records of the Quartermaster General's Office, Record Group 92, Book 106, National Archives Building, Washington, D.C.

    6. [S4879] "Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861 - 1865," digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 31 March 2008), database image no. 18894 of 54896; Roll of Prisoners of War at Camp McHenry, p. 69 (very lightly penned, top left), no. 88, entry for Bluford A. Crowder; citing Selected Records of the War Department Relating to Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865, NARA microfilm publication M598, roll 145.

    7. [S412] Crowder, Bluford A. - Civil War record.

    8. [S2262] The collected letters and documents of Della Eveline (Walker) Warren Lonnem (now deceased); these documents passed from Della Lonnem to her daughter, Faith (Lonnem) Quick; from Faith to her niece, Jesse Keenon (granddaughter of Della Lonnem); photocopied, 1996, in the possession of Janis Walker Gilmore (Pawleys Island, SC); original documents in the possession of Jesse Keenon (Muskogee, Oklahoma), 2007.

    9. [S4819] Clara M. Parker, Giles County, Tennessee, Early Marriages (n.p.: Clara M. Parker, n.d.), 9.

    10. [S3973] 1870 U.S. census, Butler County, Missouri, population schedule, Cane Creek, Epps township, p. 1 (penned), p. 32 (stamped, recto), dwelling 3, family 2, Clifford [Bluford] Crowder household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 October 2013); citing NARA microfilm publication M593, roll 763. .

    11. [S4880] Jane E. Crowder, homestead certificate no. 2050, Ironton, Missouri, Land Office, Bureau of Land Management, Record Group 49, National Archives Building, Washington, D.C.; original claim application no. 4388 filed by Bluford A. Crowder, completed by his widow Jane subsequent to his death.

    12. [S415] Crowder, Bluford A. - homestead proof, (Jane E. Crowder, homestead certificate no. 2050, Ironton, Missouri, Land Office, Bureau of Land Management, Record Group 49, National Archives Building, Washington, D.C.; original claim application no. 4388 filed by Bluford A. Crowder, completed by his widow Jane subsequent to his death.).

    13. [S2648] 1880 U. S. census, Howell County, Missouri, population schedule, Goldsberry township, enumeration district (ED) 52, p. 24 (penned), [no stamped no.], dwelling 196, family 196, N. Thomas Walker [Thomas N. Walker] household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 24 Sept 2012); citing NARA microfilm publication T9, roll 691; FHL film no. 1,254,691. .

    14. [S5578] \"What Giles County Gets,\"The Pulaski Citizen (Wichita, Kan.), 5 July 1888, p. 3, col. 4, item regarding Miss Ilion Beard; digital image, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 24 February 2019).

    15. [S31] Crowder, Faithy Jane - Death Certif (1915), (Faithy Jane Smith, death certificate no. 58, Lawrence County, Tennessee (1915), Tennessee Vital Records, Nashville, Tennessee).
      Death certificate of Faithy Jane Crowder Smith states that Faithy Jane's mother was unknown CHILDERS. Informant was Faithy Jane's son, Marvin Smith, who apparently could only recall the surname.

    16. [S25] Walker, Della - Documents, (The collected letters and documents of Della Eveline (Walker) Warren Lonnem (now deceased); these documents passed from Della Lonnem to her daughter, Faith (Lonnem) Quick; from Faith to her niece, Jesse Keenon (granddaughter of Della Lonnem); photocopied, 1996, in the possession of Janis Walker Gilmore (Pawleys Island, SC); original documents in the possession of Jesse Keenon (Muskogee, Oklahoma), 2007.).
      Della indicates that in 1846 Martha Tacker was born of Jane's first marriage and in 1849 Joshua was born to her second (Crowder) marriage.

    17. [S26] Tennessee, Giles - Early Marriages Giles Co TN, Clara M. Parker, compiler, (Pulaski, Tennessee : HBA Rapid Print, [199-?]), entry for Bluford Crowder and Jane Elizabeth Tidwell [Jane Eveline Tidwell], p. 15 (1845) (Reliability: 3).
      Bluford CROWDER to Jane Elizabeth [sic] TIDWELL 1845.
      [The bride's name should have been Jane Eveline Tidwell.]
      This is as close to an actual marriage record as we are likely to come. Since this is a compilation of records from various sources, as a replacement for records destroyed by Federal forces during the Civil War, it is impossible to know the exact source of the info.

    18. [S25] Walker, Della - Documents, (The collected letters and documents of Della Eveline (Walker) Warren Lonnem (now deceased); these documents passed from Della Lonnem to her daughter, Faith (Lonnem) Quick; from Faith to her niece, Jesse Keenon (granddaughter of Della Lonnem); photocopied, 1996, in the possession of Janis Walker Gilmore (Pawleys Island, SC); original documents in the possession of Jesse Keenon (Muskogee, Oklahoma), 2007.).

    19. [S25] Walker, Della - Documents, (The collected letters and documents of Della Eveline (Walker) Warren Lonnem (now deceased); these documents passed from Della Lonnem to her daughter, Faith (Lonnem) Quick; from Faith to her niece, Jesse Keenon (granddaughter of Della Lonnem); photocopied, 1996, in the possession of Janis Walker Gilmore (Pawleys Island, SC); original documents in the possession of Jesse Keenon (Muskogee, Oklahoma), 2007.), Della states that her mothers parents left Giles County Tennessee soon after the Civil War ended, because of the carpetbaggers. (Reliability: 3).
      "They had 80 acres half paid out, and had to lose their home and came over to Missouri to take a homestead. Several families traveled together."

    20. [S25] Walker, Della - Documents, (The collected letters and documents of Della Eveline (Walker) Warren Lonnem (now deceased); these documents passed from Della Lonnem to her daughter, Faith (Lonnem) Quick; from Faith to her niece, Jesse Keenon (granddaughter of Della Lonnem); photocopied, 1996, in the possession of Janis Walker Gilmore (Pawleys Island, SC); original documents in the possession of Jesse Keenon (Muskogee, Oklahoma), 2007.), Della says (Reliability: 3).
      : "Mamma's folks come from Tennessee when she was 9 yr old - left 80 acres half paid out, with good maple orchard and other fruit - banks had no patience with those people, after the war and so they come west and homestead. They stopped 5 yr in Butler County where Aunt Bob (alias Malissa) married the only son of an old County Judge (Patty)...." Della says, " Mother's parents [Bluford, Jane and children] stayed in Butler County, Missouri for 5 or 6 years. Mother's one sister married the only son of old Judge Patty - the rest of the family moved on to Howell County, Missouri, where Grandfather took a 160 acres homestead, and when I was back there in 46 there were still crab apple trees and black walnut trees that he and the girls had planted. I don't remember Grand Pa Crowder but, as he passed away in the hard winter after I was born, December 78 and Grandma finished the homestead."

    21. [S407] Missouri, Howell - Tax Records, Personal, 1874, («i»Howell County, Missouri, 1874 Personal Property Tax Records«/i», (West Plains, Missouri : South Central Missouri Genealogical Society, n.d)).