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Persoonlijke gegevens David Stern 'Davy' Crockett 

• Hij is geboren op 17 augustus 1786 in Limestone, Greene, Tennessee, USA.
• (Noted for) in het jaar 1829 in A George Basinger is mentioned as being in debt with David Crocket to Isaac Sellers (campaign debt ) in Gibson County.
• Hij is overleden op 6 maart 1836 in Alamo, San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA, hij was toen 49 jaar oud.
• Een kind van John B. Hedge Crockett en Rebecca Sullivan Hawkins
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 13 juni 2023.

Gezin van David Stern 'Davy' Crockett

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Elizabeth Unknown.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 22 mei 1816 te Lawrence, Tennessee, United States, hij was toen 29 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Matilda Porter Patton Crockett  1821-1864 

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Mary 'Polly' Kennedy Finley.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 14 augustus 1806 te Dandridge, Jefferson, Tennessee, United States, hij was toen 19 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. John Wesley Crockett  1807-1854

Notities over David Stern 'Davy' Crockett

Children
On August 14, 1806, after being jilted by his first fiancée, Crockett married Mary (Polly) Finley. The couple had three children and moved to Franklin County, Tennessee, to a farm Crockett named —Kentuck.“
After Polly died in 1815, Crockett married widow Elizabeth Patton. Elizabeth brought two children to the marriage, and Crockett and Elizabeth had three more together.
Did you know? In 1831 the play "The Lion of the West" opened in New York City. The play was a thinly disguised and highly exaggerated account of Crockett's life and helped cement his legendary life in the public imagination.
Military Career
In 1813, Crockett joined the Tennessee militia as a scout and fought against the Creek Indians in Alabama. He participated in the Indian massacre atTallushatcheein retaliation for an Indian attack on Fort Mims.

During the War of 1812,Crockett re-enlisted as Third Sergeant under Captain John Cowan. He went to Spanish Florida to help Andrew Jackson clear British forces, including British-trained Indians, from the region.
After being discharged in 1815, he returned home, where his wife Polly soon died. He remarried, moved his family to Lawrence County, Tennessee, started several businesses and began his political career.
Political Life
In 1817, Crockett became public commissioner of Lawrence County. Later that year, he was elected justice of the peace and then became a lieutenant colonel in the Tennessee militia. After resigning those posts, he won a seat in the Tennessee General Assembly representing Lawrence and Hickman counties, where he fought for the tax and land rights of poor settlers and refined his speaking skills.
After losing his businesses to flooding, Davy moved to Carroll County and was again elected to the General Assembly in 1823. He lost a bid for Congress in 1825 and returned to the private sector.
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He ran for Congress again in 1827 and 1829 and won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, lost in 1830, won again in 1833 and lost his final bid in 1834. He often opposed President Andrew Jackson‘s political platform, although at first, he supported him.
While in Congress, Crockett made a name for himself as a gifted storyteller and the —gentleman from the cane,“ a snobbish reference to his rural upbringing. He also became the subject of a play and a series of books and almanacs which included tall tales about his exploits as a bear-hunting frontiersman.

Hoping to set the record straight about the reality of his life and change his folk hero reputation, Crockett wrote an autobiography and went on tour promoting it. When he returned and lost his seat in Congress, he famously said, —I told the people of my district that I would serve them faithfully as I had done; but if not, they might go to hell, and I will go to Texas.“ And he did.
Crockett at the Alamo
Crockett and a 30-man armed brigade arrived in Nacogdoches, Texas, in January 1836 during the Texas War for Independence. Crockett swore allegiance to the Provisional Government of Texas in exchange for land and arrived in San Antonio at the Alamo Mission in February.
On February 23, President General Santa Anna and thousands of his troops laid siege to the Alamo against no more than 200 Texas volunteer soldiers, including Crockett and his men, whose sharpshooting skills and long rifles proved invaluable in the fight.
Despite Texas commander Sam Houston‘s advice to abandon San Antonio, the Alamo defenders dug in and held out for 13 days until Mexican soldiers overran their defenses on March 6 and killed them all.
Crockett is thought to have died defending the Alamo; however, by some accounts he survived the battle and was taken hostage with a handful of men (against Santa Anna‘s orders to take no hostages) and executed.
Legacy
Crockett‘s death at the Battle of the Alamo burnished his reputation as a hero and cemented his legendary status.
In 1954, Walt Disney produced a television series based on Crockett‘s life titled Davy Crockett with Fess Parker as Crockett. The series introduced the famous song —The Ballad of Davy Crockett“ by George Bruns and Thomas W. Blackburn, and gave the world the still-popular image of a patriotic Crockett holding a long rifle while wearing frontier clothes and a coonskin cap.
Throughout the 20th century and beyond, Crockett‘s likeness and adventures were represented in plays, novels, comic books and films, including the 1960 film The Alamo starring John Wayne as Davy Crockett.
Dozens of parks, schools and other entities are named for Crockett, including Davy Crockett National Forest in Texas, David Crockett State Park in Tennessee and the Davy Crockett Nuke, a nuclear weapons system developed by the U.S. Army during the Cold War.
Sources
Crockett, David. History, Art and Archives; U.S. House of Representatives.
David Crockett. The Handbook of Texas Online.
The Reader‘s Companion to American History. Eric Foner and John A. Garraty, Editors. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

David Crockett was born in what is now Greene County, Tennessee, close to the Nolichucky River and near the community of Limestone. At the time of his birth, however, the surrounding area was part of the autonomous territory known as the State of Franklin. A replica of his birthplace cabin stands in Davy Crockett Birthplace State Park on the Nolichucky River near Limestone.

Crockett was of Scots-Irish, Anglo-Irish, French Huguenot and English descent, the family name being derived from Monsieur de la Croquetagne, a captain in the Royal Guard of French King Louis XIV. The family converted to Protestantism and, as Huguenots fled France in the 17th century, settled in the north of Ireland. Family tradition says that David Crockett's father was born on the voyage to America from Ireland, though in fact Crockett's great-grandfather, William David Crockett, was registered as having been born in New Rochelle, New York in 1709.

David Crockett was the fifth of nine children of John and Rebecca (Hawkins) Crockett. He was named after his paternal grandfather, who was killed in 1777 at his home near today's Rogersville, Tennessee, by Indians led by Dragging Canoe. Crockett's father was one of the Overmountain Men who fought in the Battle of Kings Mountain during the American Revolutionary War. The Crocketts moved to Morristown, Tennessee, in the 1790s and built a tavern there. A museum stands on the site and is housed in a reconstruction of the tavern.

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