Choctaw County, OK - Obituary - Ophelia Crowder Birchfield
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Source:  BISHINIK -- Newspaper Of The Oklahoma Choctaw Tribe 
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December 1991 

BIRCHFIELD, Ophelia Crowder 

                         Ophelia Crowder Birchfield, an original 
enrollee, age 96, died December 24, 1991. Burial was in Farris 
Community Cemetery. She was a great-granddaughter of Patsy GOINS 
and Eli CROWDER, who settled among the Choctaws before the War of 
1812. He married first Margaret DURANT and then Patsy GOINS, 
fathering large families with each wife. Ophelia CROWDER was born 
November 10, 1895, in the Choctaw Nation near Hugo. She married 
Jay Birchfield. Preceeding her in death were: her father, Martin 
B. Crowder, who died in 1969 at the age of 98; all of her siblings 
and almost all of her generation of friends and relatives; her 
husband, who died in 1960; most of her children (John, Elmer, Eula 
Nowlin, Lee, Edgar and several infants); and a number of her 
grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She is survived by her 
daughter, Alene and by her two youngest sons, James and Bunnie.