John Watkins Crockett

John Watkins Crockett junior (born May 17, 1818 in Jessamine County , Kentucky , † June 20, 1874 in Madisonville , Kentucky) was an American lawyer and Confederate politician . He was a good speaker. He also had a brisk intellect , extensive knowledge and a quick grasp.

Career

John Watkins Crockett Jr. visited the community schools in Jessamine County (Kentucky) and Hancock County ( Illinois ), where he lived with his sister, Mrs. Hannah (Crockett) Bell. At the age of 21, he returned to Kentucky and settled in Hopkinsville ( Christian County down), where he with his cousin Joseph Crockett, a renowned attorney, law studies, which later became a judge at the Supreme Court of California was. After receiving his license to practice law, he practiced in Paducah ( McCracken County ). Shortly before the outbreak of the civil war , he followed suitHenderson ( Henderson County ). His sympathy for the southern states and his firm belief in the absolute right of these states to secede from the Union led him to give his influence, which he had, and his support to the Confederate States . He took as a delegate at the American Civil Assembly of Kentucky in Bowling Green ( Warren County in part), where he voted for secession. In November 1861 he was elected to the First Confederate Congress for the second constituency of Kentucky , where he served from February 18, 1862 to February 17, 1864. After the end of the war, he returned to Henderson, where he resumed his practice as a lawyer. He followed this up until 1872 when his deteriorating health caused him to give up and move to Madisonville, Hopkins County , where he died in 1874. His body was interred in Fernwood Cemetery , Henderson.

family

John Watkins Crockett junior was the son of Louisa Bullock (1790-1840), a member of the prominent Bullock family in Kentucky, and the farmer John Watkins Crockett senior (1790-1852). His parents were both from Jessamine County. His grandfather, Joseph Crockett, was in Charlottesville ( Virginia born) and was during the Revolutionary War colonel in a regiment of Virginia. In 1827 he moved to Kentucky, where he worked for some time as the United States Marshal . The first family members who came to America were descendants of a Huguenot group who fled their French homeland at the time of the Huguenot persecution and found refuge in Ireland . The name was written Croquetaine at that time . The family's sons were seafarers and traded with the Maury family, based in Virginia.

Crockett was married twice. He married Mrs. Smedley first. Of their children together, two reached adulthood: John W. and Lucy. After the death of his first wife, he married Miss Louisa M. Ingram (1828-1870), daughter of Jane C. McGready and Wyatt H. Ingram, a merchant from Henderson, Kentucky. The Ingram family was originally from Virginia and then settled in Kentucky. From the marriage between Louis M. Ingram and John Watkins Crockett junior only Wyatt (1856-1936) reached adulthood. He was a cashier at the Planters' Bank of Henderson. In addition, he wrote many poems which were published in standard works such as Youth's Companion and Frank Leslie's .

literature

• Memorial Record of Western Kentucky - John Watkins Crockett , Lewis Publishing Company, 1904, pp. 799-801

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Confederate States almanac and repository of useful knowledge: for the year 1863 , Gale Cengage Learning, ISBN 9781432804930 , p. 33
2. ↑ ^{a b} John Watkins Crockett on the ancestry.com website
3. ↑ Louisa M. Ingram Crockett in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved March 3, 2016.
4. ↑ Wyatt Ingram Crockett in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved March 3, 2016.

Web links

• John Watkins Crockett in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• John Watkins Crockett on The Political Graveyard website