Note on Elizabeth Crowder's birth. It wasn't in America. It was in Canada. Philip worked in Ontario digging the sewer along Yonge Street and working on the railroad (across the Holland Swamp) while sending stories back to a newspaper in Birmingham. He had been a very active union organizer before he left England. When his first wife died he packed the three children up and returned home, where he married Emma and went on to have ten more children.