Crockett, John W.

Born: 1818-05-17 Jessamine County, Kentucky

Died: 1874-06-20 Kentucky

Flourished: Henderson, Kentucky

John W. Crockett was an attorney, city government official, and Confederate representative. Crockett attended schools in Jessamine County, Kentucky, and Hancock County, Illinois. He began studying law in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 1839. He earned admission to the bar in Paducah, Kentucky, where he practiced until he moved to Henderson, Kentucky. By 1860, Crockett had at least two children, owned at least four enslaved persons, owned real property valued at $7,000, and had a personal estate valued at $3,000. Crockett served as city advisor for Henderson in 1860 and 1861. In November 1861, he represented Henderson County, Kentucky at the state's pro-Confederate provisional government convention in Russellville. Crockett represented Kentucky's Second Congressional District in the Confederate House of Representatives from 1862 to 1864. He did not run for reelection in 1864.

Crockett married twice. His first marriage to America Smedley, with whom he had two children, ended with her death in 1852. He married Louisa Ingram in Henderson County on February 27, 1855. John and Louisa Crockett had at least two children together.

Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 65-66; Kentucky, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1783-1965, 27 February 1855, Henderson County, (Lehi, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, 2016); U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Henderson County, KY, 17; U.S. Census Office, Eighth Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedule, Henderson County, KY, 27; Edmund L. Starling, History of Henderson County, Kentucky(Henderson, KY: n.p., [1887]), 374, E. Polk Johnson, A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians (Chicago and New York: Lewis, 1912), 2:1099.