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John Wesley Crockett (July 10, 1807 – November 24, 1852), was an American politician who represented Tennessee's Twelfth Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives. It was the same district his father, David Crockett , had represented earlier.
The Crockett Tavern Museum building is a reproduction of John Crockett's tavern in Morristown, Tennessee. A respected man in the area, Crockett later became a magistrate, a farmer, and an unsuccessful land speculator. [1] [8] The family lived in what is now Greene County, Tennessee, close to the Nolichucky River and near the community of Limestone.
The newlyweds settled on land near Polly's parents, and their first child, John Wesley Crockett, who became a United States Congressman, [48] was born July 10, 1807. [49] Their second child, William Finley Crockett, was born November 25, 1808. [ 49 ]
David Crockett family tree. Gabriel Gustave de Crocketagne m. Mademoiselle de Saix of France [1] ... John Wesley Crockett (1807–1852) [12] m. Martha Hamilton;
Unlike most other films about the Alamo — the most prominent other exception being the 1955 film The Last Command (which was released during the cultural frenzy created by Walt Disney's Davy Crockett television miniseries) — it focuses on Bowie as the main character rather than Crockett. The film aired on NBC on January 26, 1987.
Limestone was the birthplace of David Crockett (1786) to John and Rebecca Crockett. [2] The Gillespie House, built in 1792 by pioneer settler George Gillespie, still stands in Limestone. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] One of the locations used in the TV movie Goodbye, Miss 4th of July (1988) was the Old Stone House in Limestone.
Davy Crockett was a five-part serial which aired on ABC from 1954–1955 in one-hour episodes, on the Disneyland series. The series starred Fess Parker as real-life frontiersman Davy Crockett and Buddy Ebsen as his friend, George Russell. [ 1 ]
John Wesley Cromwell Jr. was born on September 2, 1883, in Washington, D.C., to parents John Wesley Cromwell Sr. and Lucy McGuinn; his sister was the writer Otelia Cromwell. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1851, Cromwell Jr.'s grandfather, Willis H. Cromwell, purchased his family's freedom from slavery in Virginia and relocated them to Philadelphia.