Posted By:	Family Dog
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	Subject:	Re: New DNA Results on Colonel Anthony Crockett Line
	Post Date:	April 07, 2009 at 13:34:08
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/crockett/messages/3337.html
	Forum:	Crockett Family Genealogy Forum
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Hi, Talk about perseverance. It's good to have new data for the DNA project. In 1999, several people pooled efforts to put this line together, including Lois VanCleave, mother-in-law of Jeffrey Donald Crockett. There is stuff in the archives of the Crockett-L Mail List and GenForum which would be worth looking for if you are going to work on this line. Anthony Curtis Crockett [Feb 1841-1910] was son of Anthony [d: 1840-1843] and Mary D (Curtis) Crockett (ca 1817 or 1818--27 June 1850. Father Anthony died while Anthony C was an infant, and his mother Mary D (Curtis) Crockett remarried in 24 Oct 1843 in Claiborne Co, MS, to James Columbus Ross. Anthony Curtis Crockett's sister was Elizabeth A Crockett; she married a Wood; and she may have died on a wagon train bound for Texas. Anthony C Crockett married in Hinds Co, MS, 9 Aug 1864 Sarah Jane Thornton. She lived 1838--1925. They were parents of: William Anthony, December 1866-before 1946 Lila Anna Mary L Sara Ermine, b: 13 March 1877, MS; d: 29 July 1954, Comanche Co, Texas. Outlived her siblings. J Paul Sides is a descendant through Sara Ermine who married David Frank Powell. The Comanche County, TX death certificate (October 1910 #24) for Anthony C Crockett gave his father's name as Anthony, born TN, and his mother as Mary Curtis, born LA. The information was provided by son-in-law George C Wetzel in Nov 1910 to replace the "unknown" originally recorded. Only the 1910 census confirms TN as place of birth for father of Anthony C. There was an early Anthony in several records, but he seems too early to have been the father of Anthony Curtis Crockett born 1841. Consider that Mary was born about 1817/1818. I'd expect Anthony the father to be as old as and likely a bit older than his wife. Anthony Crocket appears on the 1810 Mississippi Territorial census, enumerated in Claiborne and Warren Counties (all on one census). One male and one female both 21+ [born xxxx--1789] and two girls under 22 [born 1789--1810]. Could early Anthony have been a grandfather to Anthony C? That's not improbable, but the guess lacks evidence at present. Chronology-wise, though, he'd be a better grandfather fit than a father fit. (Has it ever puzzled anyone that for a family that has an Anthony (French, Antoinne) as progenitor, there were not a lot of Anthony's among early American Crocketts.) All best, Don Maring familydog@comcast.net Genealogy Tip: "Location, location, location -- it's not just for real estate any more".