When William Henry Crockett was born on 8 October 1878, in Bandera, Texas, United States, his father, William Walter Crockett, was 29 and his mother, Mary Jane Savage, was 28. He married Emma Lee Wilburn on 10 August 1902, in Eddy, New Mexico, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and Davidson, Tennessee, United States in 1950. He died in September 1963, at the age of 84.
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Grenville M. Dodge oversaw the construction of the Fort Worth & Denver Railway. Work began at Hodge Junction, and eventually extended to the New Mexico border by 1888. Service began on April 1, 1888, with trains travelling between Fort Worth and Denver.
Historical Boundaries: 1891: Eddy, New Mexico Territory, United States 1912: Eddy, New Mexcio, United States
"Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful ""oil boom""."
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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