Crowder Family Cemetery
Located behind an old store and home 100 yd south of Brodnax Rd. (Route 659) and 400 yd east of Tillman Rd. (Route 662). At least 2 other graves are here as evidenced by fieldstones.
Latitude:36º 40' 13.3" N   (36.670361)
Longitude:78º 0' 43.9" W   (-78.012194)
Transcribed:2009

Wm. H. Crowder15 Jul 1883 —30 Dec 1913Not lost but gone before
This is a tall Woodmen of the World stone that has fallen over.
Grandson of Pvt. Wiley Henry Crowder, CWS f BCV, p. 136.



15 Dec 1889 —16 Dec 1889Infant son of
J.R. & S.B. Temple
This is perhaps a son of John Robert Temple and his wife and first cousin Sarah Frances Virginia Temple. Other children were born about 2 years before and after the birth of this child, CWS f BCV, pp. 549-550.


 
According to Civil War Soldiers from Brunswick County, Virginia, Pvt. Wiley Henry Crowder is buried “in a family cemetery on the old place off Highway 662 (Tillman Rd.) where is son John Crowder lived,” which may be identical to this cemetery. His wife, Sarah Virginia Thrower, is in Canaan Methodist Church Cemetery, CWS f BCV, p. 136.
 

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