Member of Tennessee House, 24th General Assembly, 1841-43; representing Hawkins County; SENATE, 25th and 26th General Assemblies, 1843-47; representing Greene and Hawkins counties; HOUSE, 33rd General Assembly, 1859-61; representing Hawkins County; Democrat. Born in Botetourt County, Virginia, on November 27, 1792; son of John and Susan (Crobarger) Critz, both natives of Pennsylvania. Farmer; owned a mill and tanyard and land on Patterson’s Creek, near New Canton, Hawkins County. The name of his first wife is unknown; by her he had one daughter — Mary Critz (Mrs. David Kincaid). He was married (2nd) in Hawkins County on October 14, 1847, to Mrs. Ann (Kincaid) McPheeters Thurman, daughter of David and Rebecca (McPheeters) Kincaid; no children. Member Methodist Church; Masonic Order. Died in Hawkins County on May 27, 1879; buried at Old Union Church Cemetery, near New Canton.<\/p>\n
Sources: Hawkins County Will Book I, p. 518-19; Hawkins County Court Minutes, 1871-77, p. 366; Knoxville Register<\/em>, November 10, 1847; information supplied by Prentiss Price, Rogersville.<\/p>\n From Biographical Directory: Tennessee General Assembly, 1796-1967, Issue 3<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Member of Tennessee House, 24th General Assembly, 1841-43; representing Hawkins County; SENATE, 25th and 26th General Assemblies, 1843-47; representing Greene and Hawkins counties; HOUSE, 33rd General Assembly, 1859-61; representing Hawkins County; Democrat. Born in Botetourt County, Virginia, on November 27, …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-families-individuals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions\/1960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/hawkins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}