Brief Life History of James Pickens
When James Pickens Crockett was born in December 1839, in Royston, Franklin, Georgia, United States, his father, James Walkup Crockett, was 39 and his mother, Melissa McLendon, was 38. He married Nancy Walton “Nannie” Tanner about 1869, in Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Georgia, United States in 1870 and Decatur, DeKalb, Georgia, United States in 1880. He died on 5 May 1897, in DeKalb, Georgia, United States, at the age of 57, and was buried in Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, Fulton, Georgia, United States.
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- J Crockett in household of J Crockett, "United States Census, 1850"
- James P. Crockett, "Find A Grave Index"
- James P Crockett in entry for Nannie Walton Crockett, "Georgia Deaths, 1914-1927"
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1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1849
Oldest grave seen in memorials list.
1861
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
Name Meaning
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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