The Crocketts' Home 1792-1794 - Greene County, TN - Tennessee Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

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THE CROCKETTS' HOME 1792-1794

This marker is on the south-east corner of a 197-acre tract of a 1780 claim by John Crockett.

The Crockett family lived here circa 1792-1794 after they left David's birthplace on the Nolichucky River where Fort Lee offered protection from raids led by Dragging Canoe during the 1770s and 80s. Late In 1794 the Crocketts moved 16 miles to the mouth of Cove Creek where John's newly constructed mill was washed out in a flood immediately after it was completed. This disaster was a blow from which John Crockett never recovered.

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JOHN CROCKETT:

FRONTIER DOCTOR

John Crocketts family lived near this spot in the 1790s. Out hunting. Joseph Hawkins. Davids uncle accidentally shot a neighbor. Absalom Stonecipher. The injured man shot through the torso was taken to the home of Samuel Humberd mile away. John Crockett treated the man by passing a silk handkerchief through the wound with ramrod. Stonecipher recovered and in 1796 married his nurse, Humberds daughter, Sarah. They had ten children. Absalom was alive In 1834 when Crockett wrote about the incident.

Marker Name: The Crocketts' Home 1792-1794 Marker Location: Roadside Type of Marker: Person Marker Number: 1C 96 Group(s) Responsible for placing Marker: Tennessee Historical Commission

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