{"id":3168,"date":"2022-01-10T14:41:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/?p=3168"},"modified":"2022-01-10T14:41:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:41:08","slug":"crocker-james-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lauderdale\/2022\/01\/10\/crocker-james-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Crocker, James M."},"content":{"rendered":"

James M. Crocker<\/strong>, an early settler of Lauderdale County, is a son of William
\nJ. and Peachey (Wait) Crocker. His father was born in South Carolina, and his
\nmother in Virginia. When young she moved to South Carolina, where they were
\nmarried and lived until 1826, when they moved to West Tennessee, locating in
\nBenton County, and in 1832 they moved to what is now Lauderdale County, where
\nthey spent the rest of their lives. They had thirteen children — only two
\nliving. Both parents were Primitive Baptists, and the father was a soldier in
\nthe war of 1812, a strong Whig, and a successful farmer. He died in his
\nseventy-fourth year, in 1856, and the mother in her seventy-third year, in
\n1862. James M. Crocker is of English descent, and was born August 25, 1825, in
\nSouth Carolina; was raised on a farm and had little schooling, and always
\ncared for his parents until their death. In 1853 he married S. A. Condray,
\nborn November 9, 1832, and by this marriage had four children, three living:
\nJohn B., Frances E. L. and James F. Mr. Crocker and the oldest son are members
\nof the Missionary Baptist Church, and Mrs. Crocker of the Primitive Baptist
\nChurch. The daughter is of the Christian Church. In 1864 Mrs. Crocker died,
\nand the next year he married Louisa, a sister of his first wife, born
\nSeptember 26, 1836. They have had no children. Mr. Crocker owns 142 acres of
\nland, which he has acquired by his own labor; he has taken great pains to
\neducate his children well. The oldest son, John B., is a graduate of East
\nTennessee University, where he made one of the highest records ever made by a
\nstudent of that college, and is now head draughtsman in the Nile Tool Works at
\nHamilton, Ohio. For fifty-four years our subject has been a resident of
\nLauderdale County, and has a reputation for honesty and integrity that will be
\na legacy for his children that they may justly prize.<\/p>\n

Goodspeed’s Biographies of Lauderdale Co., TN <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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