Hello, there, Are you sure you want to know about the Crocketts?? On the other hand , considerring the times, they were honorable men. a school once named Crockett once stood off U.S. 67 near the Selden- Cedar Point road, across from the John and Ida Wyly Kay prairie farm. , near the hedwaters of the Prairie or Hurley branch of the Duffau creej, two or 3 hills east of the Evergreen Community. Great Grandmother's brother Ed Fleming, from Missouri, taught there when they had a hand pump and wood stove and that prairie can be cold during a Blue Norther. Farther east, joining Hurley and Riggs land are a few Crockett graves- some in the old Pony Creek- Box cemetery, possibly nearby in the Beach- Rumph cemetery (Private,} the "New " Pony Creek- Box cemetery and I think some are buried in Indian Creek and other Erath County cemeteries. Davey Crockett's second (or third, depending on the claims that several at the Alamo had Spanish wives) wife is buried a few miles across the Paluxy River at Acton, Hood County. "Deaf" Smith's wife Nancy is buried between Pony Creek and Glen Rose, Texas in the Nancy Smith Cemetery with a Texas Revolution marker on it. Fred Ewers III [email protected],msn.com may have information. His grandad's present wife is Marilyn Giesekie Mills Ewers900 Glen Rose Road, Stephenville, Texas 76401-254-965-4984 She wrote the PTA book of 250 plus pages called SOME HISTORY OF THE JOHNSVILLE, PONY CREEK, AND CHALK MOUNTAIN COMMUNITIES WHO CONSOLIDATED TO FORM THE THREE WAY SCHOOL DISTRICT, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS. , 1995 She also left unpublished history in the Stephenville library in a box. She tells about John Crockett who rode with Quantrell's Raiders at the end of the War of Northern Agression and during the reconstruction efforts to treat Rebel heroes as outlaws to be punished, even though Lincoln had pardoned them. I have more on Txerath Net from a lady who said her grandad Bishop of Chalk Mountain also rode with Quantrell, and many say Jesse James (J.Frank Dalton of Grandbury, Texas visited them and many say he and Crockett hid money between the old dirt U.S. 67 and the Pony Creek church. . The Gillentines, Crocketts, Beach and Rumph familiea were connected there. Marilyn quotes May/June issue of American Genealolgy Magazine, 1992 as saying that John Crockett was an old Tennessee Rifleman who ser ved in the Confederate Army under Jackman, during the Civil War. Jackman was under Quantrell. After the war they went to Mexico to improve their health and avoid blood poison. After Reconstruction was wearing down he returned to Texas. The story of the crooked toll takers on the Rio Grande and how Crockett got his money back is another story. It seems Crockett and his brother in law, a Willingham, were at odds and the Beach brothers were siding with Mr. Willingham. Some local stories say some of the trouble was over some boys riding home from a Saturday night dance or party, tipsy on moonshine, and they carelessly left gates open, and other people's cows followed them home wanting to be fed. . Someone shot at Crockett from ambush and he went to Erath County Sheriff Gilbreath, who loaned him a shotgun. Later, the Beach boys were riding towards his house and he shot out the window and Time Beach was riding trying to shoot under his horse's neck 100 plus yards away. and Crockett shot at his left nipple. He missed it by 1". The Stephenville Grand Jury refused to indict Crockett for murder and he left for Quannah, Texas. Cage Beach followed him, married his daughter, and established a home there. Later, Cage and Crockett were out hunting together and Cage came back . saying John Crockett was dead, shot accidentally. No action was taken aganist Cage. John had led a small wagon train from Missouri to Texas. Now I am wonderring if my Great Grandad Moxley and his Fleming and Ogan kin from Missouri were in that wagon train. Great Grandad was in Nathan Bedford Forrest's calvary and they ate their horses to get home. The 1880 Census , page 30, Erath County, family # 267 lists John S. Crockett, 40 farming in Mo., Tenn., N.Carolina Wife Jane 38. Mo. ., Ky., Va., Children Etta, 11, Robert L., 7, Stella, 4, James S., 3, and Pearl, 1 1/2. Etta Ky. born, others in Texas. Etta married McCager Beach 7 Aug, 1886. Oh, yes, I have the middie name of Augustine because of a 7 generation habit of Wylys useing it in honor of Judge Augustin Smith Clayton of North Ga. George Washington heard him recite some patriotic poetry in grade school and sent him an autographed book. Judge Clayton wrote under the names of Atticus and another, and also wrote the old book DAVEY CROCKETT, BY HIMSELF. There was a James Crockett from Millerville/Duffau, Erath County 1900-1910 and later moved to Missouri, Mr. McCarty might add to this.He lived in the Duffau area . Happy hunting. Charles Augustine Wyly On Mon, 6 Sep 1999 10:30:15 EDT [email protected] writes: >Charles Wyly, in your research in Erath Co., TX. do you recall seeing >any >info on the Crockett family in that area. My grandmother, Matilda >Jane >Crocket, dtr of Andrew Jackson Crockett & Mary Danley married James >Henry >Parker. Who would be a good source in Erath Co. for obtaining family >info. >Would appreciate your help & advice. Nita Parker Ryan >[email protected] > > >==== Southern-Trails Mailing List ==== >Don't forget to check out Heading South: the Southern Trails Resource >Page >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~south1/trails1.htm >