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William Crumpler

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William Crumpler

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2 Feb 1895 (aged 69–70)
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Leesville, Vernon Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map
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William B. Crumpler was born about 1825 in Sampson Co., North Carolina, and he died 2 February 1895 in Louisiana. He is buried in Silver Creek Cemetery, Vernon Parish, Louisiana. He and Susannah Broxson married on 1 January 1851 in Holmes County, Florida. They moved to Louisiana about 1855 with the rest of the Crumpler/Turner migration.
He wanted his Civil War service on his tombstone because he wanted everyone to know he served his time. There is a wonderful story that goes along with William being in the Civil War. It seems that when the war began he refused to serve and hid out in the woods near his home place. He had a wife and several children, and he figured he needed to support them. The children looked for acorns each day to take to the hogs, and while they were gathering acorns they took food to their father who was hidden in the woods. Every day he would meet them in a different place so no one would suspect his hiding place. He eventually went back home and enlisted in the cavalry. From one of the acorns taken to feed the hogs, a large oak stands in his hog pen as a monument to the obedience of his children.
William and Susannah had twelve children.
William B. Crumpler was born about 1825 in Sampson Co., North Carolina, and he died 2 February 1895 in Louisiana. He is buried in Silver Creek Cemetery, Vernon Parish, Louisiana. He and Susannah Broxson married on 1 January 1851 in Holmes County, Florida. They moved to Louisiana about 1855 with the rest of the Crumpler/Turner migration.
He wanted his Civil War service on his tombstone because he wanted everyone to know he served his time. There is a wonderful story that goes along with William being in the Civil War. It seems that when the war began he refused to serve and hid out in the woods near his home place. He had a wife and several children, and he figured he needed to support them. The children looked for acorns each day to take to the hogs, and while they were gathering acorns they took food to their father who was hidden in the woods. Every day he would meet them in a different place so no one would suspect his hiding place. He eventually went back home and enlisted in the cavalry. From one of the acorns taken to feed the hogs, a large oak stands in his hog pen as a monument to the obedience of his children.
William and Susannah had twelve children.

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Co. K, 6th LA Cavalry
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Born 1825
Sampson Co., NC
Died 1895
Vernon Parish, LA
Son of Redman and
Sarah Crumpler

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