The Crowder family resided in Bacon Level, Randolph County, Alabama prior to and during the American Civil War. Daniel C. Crowder (1818-1886), the patriarch of the family, was a native of North Carolina and was listed as a Mineral Doctor (druggist) in the 1860 national census. Thomas J. Jarrell (1818- ), a native of Georgia, is believed to have been married to Daniel Crowder's sister Harriet (1818-1862). The national census lists T. J. Jarrell as a farmer. No date of death has been recorded for Thomas Jarrell but Harriet died of sickness on September 27, 1862. The Crowder and Jarrell families are buried at First Fellowship Baptist Cemetery in Bacon Level.