expbul1a.gif (699 bytes)  Griffin Crumpler

born:   1814 - 1820 in Sampson County, North Carolina
died: before 1880 in Haw Ridge, Coffee/Dale County, Alabama


1850 Thomas County, Georgia Census 
(District 81) Griffin Crumpler appears as age 30, born in Alabama abt 1819, with Emily 20, b Ala.; Louis 5 b Ala., William 1/12 b Ga. 
1855 Alabama State Census (Coffee County): Griffin Crumpler, 3 white males under 21, 1 white male over 21, 1 white female over 21.  
1860 Coffee County, Alabama Census (Election Pct. No. 11): Griffin Crumpler 45, 2500 in Real Estate and 2500 in Personal Property, born North Carolina;  Emily 35, Lewis 15, William 10, James 8, Robert 7, Mailin D. 5, Amanda E. 2, Infant 1/12.  
1860 Coffee County, Alabama Slave Schedule: Griffin Crumpler - one 20 yr old female, one 4 yr old female (James L. Brown's letter references four slaves, "two of them hands"). 
1870 Coffee County, Alabama Census (Township 5 Range 22): Griffin 54, 1500 RE and 1000 PE; illiterate, born South Carolina;  Emily 45, born Alabama, illiterate;  William 20, James 18, Robert 15, Marlin 13, "Carmella" 8, Hattie 7, "Dunklin" 4, Josephine 3, May 1. 
1880 Dale County, Alabama Census (Haw Ridge Beat 13) shows Emily in Haw Ridge, and the following children still at home: Robert (married, farmer), Camilla, Duncan, Josephine, Mary. Also lists black servants Frank Belcher and Melisa Belcher. Next door is her son James, wife Pollie, children Fannie and Dumond, James's brother Marlin, Sallie Lister (35 year old white female, not identified), and Will Miller (18 year old white male servant)

LAND RECORDS  AGRICULTURAL SCHEDULE

Military Service: WBTS:  Pvt., Co D, 53rd Alabama Cavalry Regt., Partisan Rangers, CSA  
MUSTER ROLLS
LETTER TO JEFFERSON DAVIS CONCERNING THE FAMILY OF GRIFFIN CRUMPLER
(James L. Brown, author of the letter, appears on the 1860 Coffee County Census two  households away from Griffin Crumpler. He is listed as James L. Brown, 30, farmer, b Georgia, with wife Sarah L. 24, and daughters Mary 8, Sarah 6, Eudra 3, and Ellen 1. 

COFFEE/DALE COUNTY LAND PURCHASES FOR GRIFFIN CRUMPLER AND FAMILY:

GRIFFIN CRUMPLER Dec 1851
Dec 1851
Nov 1858
Nov 1858
NENE   5N 22E 14
SENE    5N 22E 14
SENE    5N 22E 34
SWNW 5N 22E 35
OWENS CRUMPLER (Father) Sep 1858
Sep 1858
SE           4N 23E 19
NE          4N 23E 3
JACOB CRUMPLER (Brother) Sep 1858
Sep 1860
NENE    4N 23E 6
NW         4N 23E 5
JAMES CRUMPLER (Brother) Sep 1858
Sep 1858
Sep 1858
SESE       5N 23E 3
E½NE     5N 23E 31
NWNW  5N 23E 32
LEWIS WEBSTER CRUMPLER (Son) Nov 1891
Nov 1891
Nov 1891
S½SW      5N 22E 36
NWSW    5N 22E 36
SESE         5N 22E 35

Father:  Griffith Owens Crumpler  
Mother:  possibly Annie //

Spouse:  Sara Emily Mathis

Children:
1.  Lewis Webster Crumpler (m. Martha Aycock)
2.  William Crumpler
3.  James Monroe Crumpler (m. Pollie Martin)
4.  Robert Mason Crumpler (m. Lorena Hart)
5.  Marlin D. Crumpler (m. America Miller; Mandy Alice Lunsford)
6.  Amanda E. Crumpler (m. Gilbert C. Carmichael)
7.  Hattie F. (Sarah) Crumpler
8.  Camilla Crumpler
9.  Louisa Augusta Crumpler
10. Duncan Crumpler
11. Josephine Alena Crumpler (m. Jefferson Davis Crumpler)
12.  Mary Frances "Mollie" Crumpler (m. Franklin J. Paschal)