1. Philip Crowder was born May, 1759, near Petersburg, Va. He was married there to Susan Parish. They had five children born there. He then moved, in company with about forty families, to Greene county, Ky. They all moved on pack horses, and camped near each other every night, with armed men standing guard around them, for protection against the Indians. Mrs. Susan Crowder died in 1794 in Kentucky, and he was there married to Rachel Saunders. She had one child, and died there. Philip Crowder then married Sally Chandler. They had nine children, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in Nov., 1830, and settled three and a half miles southwest of Springfield. Philip Crowder was a soldier in the revolution. An elder brother, who had a family, was drafted, and Philip volunteered in his place. It was not long before the close of the war--when he was about sixteen years of age. His son Washington remembers hearing him repeatedly state that he was at the siege of Yorktown, and witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis; that he saw the British commander hand his sword to Washington, and that they wept and embraced each other. Seeing Cornwallis so much affected, Washington said: "Never mind it; this is the fate of war." Philip Crowder died February, 1844, and his widow died in September following, both in Sangamon county. [139]

2. Went to Harden Co. 1807. Back in Green Co. 1820. Left for Sangamon Co. Illinios 1830, where he died and is buried in a cemetery across from the eleventh green of the Springfield County Club. [127]