Posted by Dawn Street on genforum:

My great great grandma was Elizabeth Ann Crowder. Information indicates that John W. was married to Lucy Jane and had children Elizabeth,Isabelle, Jemima, James, and William. Jemima married Andrew J. Smith. They were in Haywood Co., TN in 1850, then to Tippah Co., MS and eventually to Hamilton Co., TX. Two of the brothers fought for the South in the Civil War. Elizabeth's husband, Robert S. White, died in 1867 or 1868 in Covington, TN as a result of an illness that started during his service in the Confederate Army. Elizabeth applied for his pension in 1936 but was denied because she had not been married to him for 10 years prior to his death. They married July 26, 1860. They had three children Martha Ann, Robert Luther, and Johnny Dile. The Dile name was for a Dr. Dile who was supposed to have been a family doctor. They named babies after doctors back then. Anyway the name has been carried down and, in my family, each generation has had a "Dile". Elizabeth married a Methodist minister, George Hays. After his death, she returned to TN. but eventually moved to Tom Green Co., TX to live with her son. She died at 100 years old. And now you know as much as I do about the Crowders. I did not have any names of John's brothers. If you come across anything else, please e-mail me and I will do the same.