| Birth: | 1776 in South Carolina |
| Death: | 1855 in Lauderdale County, Mississippi |
| Sex: | M |
| Father: | Arthur(Arter) Crocker |
| Mother: | |
| Ann (Wife) b. 1784 in North Carolina | |
| Marriage: | 1810 in Georgia |
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Clark Crocker was born about 1776 died 21 October 1854 in Lauderdale County, Mississippi. He married Ann [probably Beason]. He along with Arthur and William were in the 1805 Georgia Land Lottery. Clark Crocker was on the 1807 Tax List in Baldwin Co Ga, served in Captain Hamilton’s Company, Artillery, Georgia Militia, War of 1812, in Perry Co Alabama 1820, Marengo Co Alabama 1830, Sumter Co Alabama 1833 when he and wife Ann were two of 9 charter members of Bethany Baptist Church July 6, 1833, Kemper Co Mississppi 1845, Lauderdale Co Mississippi 1850. Clark Crocker’s death date is taken from Military Bounty-Land Warrant Application File – Warrant No. 87463 as per the following:
“Clark Crocker served from 14th Nov ’14 to 9th March ’15”
“Clark Crocker aged about Seventy four years the husband of Ann Crocker, the said Clark Crocker Died about the 21st day of October A.D. one thousand Eight hundred and fifty four … from Mrs. Ann Crocker vs Pension officer for Bounty Land, Claim Filed June 25 1856 … the Death of her husband being required to be Proven …”
“…that She is now the widow of Clark Crocker who died the 21st of October last and has never married Since his death.”
Source: Copy of complete National Archives file (16 pages) which I received on 16 Dec 2011 for Clark Crocker, Veteran War 1812, Capt Hamilton, Georgia Militia. Served 14 Nov 1814 to 09 Mar 1815; Military Bounty-Land Warrant Application File – Warrant No. 87463.
Clark Crocker’s brother was Arthur Crocker who married Elizabeth Wakefield and settled in Shelby County, Illinois where they died after 1830. Arthur and Elizabeth Crocker had a son they named Clark Crocker who was born about 1793 in Georgia. This Clark Crocker [the younger] married Mrs. Anna Carpenter on December 22, 1826 in Fayette County, Illinois. (Source Information: Dodd, Jordan. Illinois Marriages to 1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1997.) Clark Crocker and wife are found on the 1830 federal census in Sangamon County, Illinois; 1840 federal census in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana; 1850 federal census in Township 23 Ward 3, Bossier County, Louisiana. I have not yet found a death death or burial site for either Clark Crocker or his wife Anna Carpenter Crocker, not do I yet know her maiden name.
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CLARKE CROCKER
1807: Clarke Crocker appears on a Tax List in Baldwin County, Georgia.
1812: Clarke Crocker was a member of Capt. Hightower’s Artillery unit of the Georgia Militia in War of 1812. He served from 14th Nov 1814 to 9th March 1815.
1815: Clarke Crocker was in Putnam County, Georgia where daughter Ann Crocker was born.
June 10, 1820: Clarke and Ann Crocker joined Ocmulgee Baptist Church in Perry County, Alabama.
December 22, 1827: Clarke and Ann Crocker dismissed by letter from Ocmulgee Baptist Church.
1830: Clarke Crocker appears on federal census in Marengo County, Alabama
February 4, 1831: Clarke Crocker, Land Patents, 80.38 acres in Perry County, Alabama; 79.12 acres in Marengo County, Alabama.
July 6, 1833: Meeting held at the house of C. Crocker in Sumter County, Alabama. Clarke and Ann Crocker were two of nine charter members of Bethany Baptist Church.
March 15, 1834: Clarke Crocker appears on a Voting List at Patton’s Hill in Sumter County, Alabama.
March 15, 1837: Land Patent, Sumter County, Alabama for Clarke Crocker for 159.40 acres.
June 1, 1840: Clarke Crocker and family appear on the federal census in Kemper County, Mississippi.
September 27, 1850: Clarke Crocker and family were enumerated on the federal census in Lauderdale County, Mississippi. John C. Crocker appears on this census, age 20, born about 1830 in Alabama.
October 21, 1854: Clarke Crocker died in Lauderdale County, Mississippi according to the testimony of his wife Ann Crocker re her claim filed June 25, 1856, contained in the 16-page file received on Dec. 16, 2011 by researcher Bonnie Crocker from the National Archives in Washington, DC:
Military Bounty-Land Warrant Application File – Warrant No. 87463.
“Clark Crocker served from 14th Nov ’14 to 9th March ’15”
“Clark Crocker, Veteran War 1812, Capt Hamilton, Georgia Militia. Served 14 Nov 1814 to 09 Mar 1815”
“Clark Crocker aged about Seventy four years the husband of Ann Crocker, the said Clark Crocker Died about the 21st day of October A.D. one thousand Eight hundred and fifty four … from Mrs. Ann Crocker vs Pension officer for Bounty Land, Claim Filed June 25 1856 … the Death of her husband being required to be Proven …”
“…that She is now the widow of Clark Crocker who died the 21st of October last and has never married Since his death.”
[…] Clarke Crocker b. 1776 in South Carolina […]
Thank you for providing the link to my post:
Source: http://genforum.genealogy.com/crocker/messages/2144.html
To honor my beloved late husband William Vivan “Bill” Crocker and our grandchildren, I have worked for years researching his Crocker family. His line runs thus:
William Vivan Crocker; see Find A Grave Memorial # 44335203
son of: William Robert “Bunch” Crocker & Cornelia Russell; Find A Grave Memorial # 28650003
grandson of: Robert Charles P. “Charlie” Crocker & T. Florence Dorman; Find A Grave Memorial # 58901685
gr-grandson of: John Calloway Crocker & Elizabeth Jane Strait; Find A Grave Memorial
# 15984464
gg-grandson of: Clarke Crocker & Anne Beason who died in Lauderdale Co, Mississippi.
I am researching my family tree and my ggg grandmother is Mary Virginia Crocker, daughter of John Calloway Crocker. Son of Clarke Crocker. I would love to know if we have any information on his parents other than Arthur (Arter) Crocker. Spouse, dates or anything. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much!!!!
Brandy Bond
I wish I could help, Brandy, but pretty much everything I have is here on the site.
Mary Virginia Crocker is the daughter of John Hampton Crocker, not John Callaway Crocker, John Hampton Crocker died in the battle Chickamauga, September 1863.
Mary Virginia first married a unknown Smith father of Mary Virginia’s daughter, Lena, some say her middle name was Katherine, later marriages were to Thomas J Neal, had 2 or 3 sons by him, one being John Bunion Neal, third and fourth marriages, the last to George Washington Sisemore in her later years, she died 1925 buried in Drake stand cemetery in the county of Sequoyah in the state of Oklahoma
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