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Drury Dobbins Crowder

Birth	:	24 Aug 1846 North Carolina, USA
Death	:	22 Oct 1901 Napa County, California, USA
Burial	:	Chambersville Cemetery, Chambersville, Collin County, USA
Coordinate	:	33.3065987, -96.6356964
Plot	:	Sec 4,A Lot 26 sp 4
Description	:	1850 census Cleveland County, NC: Godfrey Crowder, aged 36, farmer, bp NC; Margaret aged 27, bp NC; William aged 7; Doctor B. F. aged 6; Drury D. aged 4; Zachariah aged 1 -- all born NC; Isaac Ivester, aged 23, farmer, bp NC. 1860 census Chico, Butte, CA: G. C. Crowder, aged 36, farmer, bp NC; Margt aged 38, bp NC; Franklin aged 16; D. D. aged 14; Zacharia aged 11 -- all born NC; Jas aged 2, bp CA; Martha A. aged 6 months, bp NC. 1880 census Chico, Butte, CA: Drury Crowder aged 34, birthplace NC; wife Melissa aged... Read More	1850 census Cleveland County, NC: Godfrey Crowder, aged 36, farmer, bp NC; Margaret aged 27, bp NC; William aged 7; Doctor B. F. aged 6; Drury D. aged 4; Zachariah aged 1 -- all born NC; Isaac Ivester, aged 23, farmer, bp NC. 1860 census Chico, Butte, CA: G. C. Crowder, aged 36, farmer, bp NC; Margt aged 38, bp NC; Franklin aged 16; D. D. aged 14; Zacharia aged 11 -- all born NC; Jas aged 2, bp CA; Martha A. aged 6 months, bp NC. 1880 census Chico, Butte, CA: Drury Crowder aged 34, birthplace NC; wife Melissa aged 30, birthplace PA; Kyle aged 5 and Charles aged 3, both born CA. Drury Crowder is identified as both Drury D. and D.F. Crowder. Not sure of his middle name. However, he is mentioned in the History of Butte County, 1918, by Mansfield by his nephew, Thomas Burton Crowder: "As a young man Zachariah assisted his father, Godfrey, on the ranch, after which he began purchasing land on his own account until he finally owned twenty-two hundred acres. He also joined with his brother, D.F. Crowder, in leasing the Bidwell ranch of fifteen thousand acres. They employed sixty hands the year round, running for a time headers and stationary threshers, and later two combined harvesters, using thirty-six mules to propel each. They raised barley and wheat, and sold the former as low as eighty cents per cental. After a time the brothers, Zachariah and D.F., dissolved partnership." D.F. Crowder's opinions and reminiscences were published in the Chico Enterprise (area newspaper) in 1918 on a number of subjects: Chinese trouble in Chico in seventies; account of Indians and Indian trouble; account of murdered Hickok children, comment of absence of slavery question as national issue, estimate of Chinese population, avid interest in Civil War news; tells of early days in Chico, all of which can be found in Mansfield's History of Butte County. However, the family can be most proud of his honest observations regarding the "Indian trouble" in Butte County as quoted here: "We now come to a phase in local history which as been told and retold, and written and rewritten with more or less accuracy. What I tell here of it is only what I know myself by first-hand knowledge. I refer to the so-called Indian uprising hereabouts and the Indian fighting which went on....The hand of time has a way of magnifying and ennobling the past. Things which were matters of every day occurrence then, as the years wear away take upon themselves a luster and importance of which they are not deserving and which have no foundation in fact. So it was with the Indian trouble here. For myself, I can see but little to brag about in it, and as for the local Indians being wild, bloodthirsty and ferocious, that is all rubbish. They were a docile lot, feared the white man, wished to make friends with him, and wanted to be let alone. I am making a bold statement when I say that the white man was responsible for all the Indian trouble here; but it is the truth, and facts bear me out. It was the old story over again of racial intolerance--the stronger taking advantage of the weak for no other reason than that they had the power to do so. An expression of the same human trait is found in our great war of today." 55-year-old Drury Dobbins Crowder was interred, per the Chico Cemetery Association Records, in the plot noted, on October 22, 1901.

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Where is Drury Dobbins Crowder's memorial?
Drury Dobbins Crowder's memorial is located at: Chambersville Cemetery, Chambersville, Collin County, USA.
When did Drury Dobbins Crowder death?
Drury Dobbins Crowder death on 22 Oct 1901 in Napa County, California, USA
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Latitude: 33.3065987
Longitude: -96.6356964

Family Members:

Parent

Godfrey C. Crowder

(1815 - 1895)

Margaret Elizabeth Mooney Crowder

(1821 - 1892)

Spouse

Melissa Wallace Signor Crowder

(1850 - 1886)

Siblings

Doctor Franklin Crowder

(1844 - 1922)

Zachariah Taylor Crowder

(1848 - 1913)

Sarah Ellen Crowder

(1865 - 1881)

Children

Flowers:

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