COL. WM. D. CROCKETT

.Farmer and Stock Grower; Sec. 28; P. O. Coal Valley; born in Fayette Co., Ky., July 14, 1818; came to this Co. in 1868; Dem; Chris; owns 400 acres of land, value $30,000; Col. Crockett bred and developed the noted mare Lula; has three of her sisters, also a half-sister of Goldsmith Maid, as breeders in his stable; Mr. Crockett's first wife was Mary Ann Graves; she died June 5,1845, leaving three children, Thomas G., Martha R. and Charles N.; second wife was Eliza H., daughter of Col. Thompson Ware, of Bourbon Co., Ky.; she died June 22,1865, leaving four children, Sallie Lee, Fannie W., Philemon M. and William K.; present wife was Laura B., daughter of Dr. B. Gillett, of Rochester, N. Y.; married Dec. 81,1867; children are Nelson L., Perrin, Mary B., Sue N. and Berkley J.

 

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