Re: Arter Crocker/ Arthur
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Re: Arter Crocker/ Arthur
Dori Hooper 12/24/01
Regarding Clark Crocker son of Arthur.Folks are confusing the two Clark Crockers in this family. Clark Crocker [the older] was born about 1776 died 21 October 1854 in Lauderdale County, Mississippi.He married Ann [probably Beason].He along with Arthur and William were in the 1805 Georgia Land Lottery.Clark Crocker was on the 1807 Tax List in Baldwin Co Ga, served in Captain Hamilton's Company, Artillery, Georgia Militia, War of 1812, in Perry Co Alabama 1820, Marengo Co Alabama 1830, Sumter Co Alabama 1833 when he and wife Ann were two of 9 charter members of Bethany Baptist Church July 6, 1833, Kemper Co Mississppi 1845, Lauderdale Co Mississippi 1850.Clark Crocker's death date is taken from Military Bounty-Land Warrant Application File - Warrant No. 87463 as per the following:
"Clark Crocker served from 14th Nov '14 to 9th March '15"
"Clark Crocker aged about Seventy four years the husband of Ann Crocker, the said Clark Crocker Died about the 21st day of October A.D. one thousand Eight hundred and fifty four ... from Mrs. Ann Crocker vs Pension officer for Bounty Land, Claim Filed June 25 1856 ... the Death of her husband being required to be Proven ..."
"...that She is now the widow of Clark Crocker who died the 21st of October last and has never married Since his death."
Source:Copy of complete National Archives file (16 pages) which I received on 16 Dec 2011 for Clark Crocker, Veteran War 1812, Capt Hamilton, Georgia Militia. Served 14 Nov 1814 to 09 Mar 1815; Military Bounty-Land Warrant Application File - Warrant No. 87463.
Clark Crocker's brother was Arthur Crocker who married Elizabeth Wakefield and settled in Shelby County, Illinois where they died after 1830.Arthur and Elizabeth Crocker had a son they named Clark Crocker who was born about 1793 in Georgia.This Clark Crocker [the younger] married Mrs. Anna Carpenter on December 22, 1826 in Fayette County, Illinois.(Source Information: Dodd, Jordan. Illinois Marriages to 1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.)Clark Crocker and wife are found on the 1830 federal census in Sangamon County, Illinois; 1840 federal census in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana; 1850 federal census in Township 23 Ward 3, Bossier County, Louisiana.I have not yet found a death death or burial site for either Clark Crocker or his wife Anna Carpenter Crocker, not do I yet know her maiden name.
Clark Crocker (1776-1854) had a son Nathaniel Crocker born about 1807 in Georgia, married Icy Phena Anderson, and died before 1860 in Caddo Parish, Louisiana.At this stage of my research, I can only surmise that Clark Crocker (1793-aft 1850) may have moved to live near his cousin Nathaniel Crocker.Shreveport and Bossier City Lousiana adjoin.
I hope this post will help others in their research regarding the two Clark Crockers as it has taken me years to figure it out!Happy hunting!
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Re: Arter Crocker/ Arthur
Dori Hooper 4/09/12
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Re: Arter Crocker/ Arthur
Dori Hooper 4/09/12