Luther Heber Crockett Jr

Brief Life History of Luther Heber

When Luther Heber Crockett Jr was born on 14 January 1904, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, Luther Heber Crockett, was 24 and his mother, Eleanor Esther Marcroft Crockett, was 24. He married Blanche Naomi Harvey on 27 June 1928, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in United States in 1949 and World for about 10 years. He died on 7 April 1962, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Luther Heber Crockett Jr
1904–1962
Blanche Naomi Harvey
1907–1980
Marriage: 27 June 1928
Caryle Jeanne Crockett
1929–2008
Marlene Crockett
1934–1936
Kenneth Harvey Crockett
1937–2003

Sources (48)

  • Luther H Crochett, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Luther Heber Crockett, "Utah, Salt Lake County Birth Records, 1890-1915"
  • Luther Heber Crockett, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"

World Events (8)

1906 · Saving Food Labels

The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.

1908 · Utah's First National Monument

Natural Bridges National Monument was designated a National Monument in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt. It is Utah’s first National Monument but didn’t get many visitors until after the uranium boom of the 1950s. Today the Monument and its park became the first International Dark Sky Park certified by the International Dark-Sky Association.

1920

The Prohibition Era. Sale and manufacture of alcoholic liquors outlawed. A mushrooming of illegal drinking joints, home-produced alcohol and gangsterism.

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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Luddy

My mom, Luther's great niece says he was called "Luddy"

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