Brief Life History of John
When John Crookston Sr. was born on 1 June 1851, in Jackson Township, Polk, Missouri, United States, his father, Robert Crookston Sr., was 29 and his mother, Ann Welch, was 24. He married Elizabeth Frances Preator on 29 May 1876, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States in 1880 and Petersboro, Cache, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 29 September 1919, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Logan Cemetery, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.
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- John Crookston, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: John Crookston Sr. - Church record: birth-name: John Crookston Sr
- John Crookston, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"
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1859
Historical Boundaries: 1859: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sanpete, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
Scottish (Midlothian and Lanarkshire): habitational name, according to Black, from a place in Renfrewshire, which was named as the estate of one Robert Croc. There are other places, in the Border and Lothian regions of Scotland, with this name, from which the surname could have arisen.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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