King Soloman Crowder (1861 - 1947)

K. S Crowder resides in Washington Township, this county, and is the prosperous possessor of a good farm of over 100 acres, sixty-five of which is under a good state of cultivation. He has proven himself to be an active worker in the cause of education and religion; in the former work he holds the office of director of his district, and in the latter is a consistent member of the M. E Church, South, in which he is a successful exhorter. Mr. Crowder is a native of Mississippi, where he was born December 25, 1861. He is the son of King L. and Missouri C. (Taylor) Crowder, who were also the parents of four other children, two of whom are now dead. Mr. Crowder, Sr., was a farmer by occupation, and an enterprising and useful man in his day and time, and is now long since dead. Mrs. Crowder is living, and is making her home in Washington Township. Our subject received his education in this county, but at the early age of 14 years, was called to the management of his mother's farm, which he conducted in a most efficient manner till 1884. On the 10th of August he married Mrs. Sarah Bostain, a native of this State, and the widow of David Bostain, by whom she had four children, named Wesley A., Laura A., Alice and William. The fruits of her union with our subject has been the two children, Agnes B. (deceased) and King V., named for his paternal grandparent.