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Born January 22, 1884 in Warren County, Kentucky, the son of James Wade and Annie Arbuckle Crabb; married Bertha Gardner August 16, 1911; died 1980 in Lexington, Kentucky. Dr. Crabb was an esteemed Professor of Education at Peabody College in Nashville and was the author of many novels about Tennessee, especially about the Civil War. He received many honors, including the proclamation of Alfred Leland Crabb Week in Tennessee, October 15-21, 1972, by Governor Winfield Dunn.