George Crump
George Crump, born in 1871 rural Alabama lived through multiple world wars as well as Reconstruction after the Civil War. He passed away in the town of Auburn.
George Crump was a sharecropper. The sharecropping system was a system in which a farmer rents land from a plantation owner and pledges some of his crop to the plantation owner; however, this system is rigged in favor of the plantation owner, and the renter ends up forever indebted, making it very similar to slavery. George Crump was likely part of this system because he was a farmer who rented land from someone else. However he changed his occupation in his later years to doing yard work for a private family. He more than likely made the swap because he realized that he was not making enough money by sharecropping.
In 1904, George Crump married Emma Crump, a laundress for a private family. In 1910, his household consisted of his daughter, Annie Crump, his two stepchildren, Victoria and Samuel, and George and his wife. However, by 1940, George and Emma had moved to Victoria’s house. They had a lodger named Julia Anderson to provide them income. However, they were still poor. In the closing years of his life, after all his family was deceased, he moved to Debardeleben Street. He died on Monday, January 11, 1965, in the Lee County Hospital, and the funeral was held at Lee’s Chapel in Auburn.
George Crump was a sharecropper. The sharecropping system was a system in which a farmer rents land from a plantation owner and pledges some of his crop to the plantation owner; however, this system is rigged in favor of the plantation owner, and the renter ends up forever indebted, making it very similar to slavery. George Crump was likely part of this system because he was a farmer who rented land from someone else. However he changed his occupation in his later years to doing yard work for a private family. He more than likely made the swap because he realized that he was not making enough money by sharecropping.
In 1904, George Crump married Emma Crump, a laundress for a private family. In 1910, his household consisted of his daughter, Annie Crump, his two stepchildren, Victoria and Samuel, and George and his wife. However, by 1940, George and Emma had moved to Victoria’s house. They had a lodger named Julia Anderson to provide them income. However, they were still poor. In the closing years of his life, after all his family was deceased, he moved to Debardeleben Street. He died on Monday, January 11, 1965, in the Lee County Hospital, and the funeral was held at Lee’s Chapel in Auburn.
Contributed by Zach and Minor from Auburn High School