When William Leander Crockett was born on 11 January 1820, in Jonesborough, Washington, Tennessee, United States, his father, James Crockett, was 46 and his mother, Margaret Leander, was 25. He married Sarah Ann Poindexter on 28 December 1842, in Sullivan, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Atchison, Missouri, United States in 1880 and Nishnabotna, Atchison, Missouri, United States in 1880. He died on 18 February 1895, in Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in High Creek Cemetery, Rock Port, Atchison, Missouri, United States.
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A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English (Staffordshire) and Scottish (of Norman origin): nickname for someone who affected a particular hairstyle, from Anglo-Norman French croket ‘ornamental curl or roll of hair’ (Old Norman French croquet, a diminutive of croque ‘curl, hook’).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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