Mary Arden Crankfield was the second child of Jonathan Crankfield and Sara Emily Little (Crankfield) . She was probably born in South Carolina. According to Crankfield family historian, Virginia Bowen, she was called Arden because her grandmother, Lucy Wilson Crankfield, was in love with someone named Arden, but married Littleton. Shortly after Mary Arden was born, her family moved in 1836 to Alabama.
Sarah Heifner (b. 1853) Walter Matthias Heifner (b. 1856) Frank Heifner (b. 1862) Virginius Heifner (b. 1863) Emma Virginia Mount (1867-1942). She married James Dudley McCullers in 1884. He was a farmer. In his later years, he would write his two Alabama U.S. senators every few weeks to give his views. Emma and James Dudley McCullers had twenty children between 1885 and 1909. They were all born in Calhoun County, Alabama. Nine of the children did not make it to adulthood. The twenty children were: 1) Daniel Virginius McCullers (1885-1885).
2) Mary Alice McCullers (1886-1887).
3) Earnest Victor McCullers (1887-1887).
4) Jason McCullers (b. 1889), married Ollie Erwin in 1924. He served in World War I.
5) James Frank McCullers (1890-1954) married Lou Mount.
6) Carl Dudley McCullers (b. 1892) married Mildred Kelley in Santa Monica, California. He served in World War I. One of his granddaughters is Monet Holmquist.
7) Annie Arden McCullers (1893-1979). She married J. R. Bunch in 1909. They had three children: Mary Arden Bunch (b. 1919), Jason Rennie Bunch (b. 1921) and Elizabeth Virginia Bunch (b. 1923).
8) (baby) McCullers (1894-1894).
9) Euna McCullers (b. 1895). She married Berkley Alter Woodruff. He was a captain in the engineer corps in World War I. Euna was a nurse. During World War I she served in the Army nurse corps and later was a public health nurse in Columbia S.C.
11) (baby) McCullers (1897-1897).
12) Eugene Crankfield McCullers (1898-1906).
13) Fred Lewis McCullers (b. 1900). He married ______Bynum.
14) (boy twin) McCullers (1902-1902).
15) (girl twin) McCullers (1902-1902).
16) May Geneva McCullers (b. 1903). She married Dennis Pafe.
17) Paul McCullers (b. 1905). He married Amy Hall.
18) (baby) McCullers (1906-1906).
19) Ruth Clara McCullers (b. 1907). She married L. P. Morgan.
20) Myrtle Gertrude McCullers (b. 1909). (b. 1909). She married Lionel LeBourget.Jonathan Mount (b. 1869) Luther Mount (b. 1872) Arthur Mount (1873-1874). He is buried at Busby Family Cemetery, Calhoun County, Alabama. Josephine “Josie” Mount (b. 1877).