John Watkins Crockett, Jr.

Birth Date

1818-05-17

Death Date

1874-06-20

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

McCracken County, Kentucky, and Henderson County, Kentucky, attorney and politician (C.S.A.). Jessamine County, Kentucky, native. Married to America Smedley Crockett. Father of John W. Crockett, III, Lucy Crockett, and Americus Crockett. Married to Louisa M. Ingram Crockett in Henderson County on February 27, 1855. Father of Wyatt Ingram Crockett. Educated in Jessamine County, Kentucky, and Hancock County, Illinois. Admitted to the bar and practiced in Paducah, Kentucky, and Henderson, Kentucky, from 1839. Represented the Second Congressional District of Kentucky at the Southern Rights Convention in 1861. Represented Kentucky at the Border Slave State Conference in 1861. Delegate to the provisional government convention in Russellville in November 1861. Member of the Council of Ten in the provisional government of Kentucky. Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary for the provisional government of Kentucky. Member of the House of Representatives of the First Confederate Congress from Kentucky's Second Congressional District from 1862 to 1864. Returned to Henderson, Kentucky, to practice law after the war.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Division 1, p.137A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 17.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Division 1, p. 152A.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Henderson County Marriages, Film #001944390, p. 345.
Case Files of Applications from Former Confederates for Presidential Pardons ("Amnesty Papers"), 1865-67, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M1003, Main Series, Ad-Hu, pp. 443-55 of microfilm.
H. Levin, Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky. ed. H. Levin (Chicago, 1897), 387-388.
Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 65-66.
Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353.
Find a Grave, “John Watkins Crockett (May 17, 1818-June 20, 1874),” Memorial #7092229, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7092229 (accessed January 12, 2017).
KYR-0004-033-0001.

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