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Title
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Elizabeth Crockett, Grave/Memorial, December 2000
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Format
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JPEG
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Contributor
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Biebrich, Caitlin
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Leroy, Lena
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Creator
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Colman, Penny
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Date
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2000-12
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Identifier
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HIST305-Spring 2021
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Rights
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Copyright Permission Secured
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Original Format
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35mm Slide
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Location
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Folder C, Page 5
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Description
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The headstone for Elizabeth Patton Crockett is located in Acton Cemetery in Acton, Texas. The statue on top is made in Crockett's likeness and is facing west, so as to be "watching" for her husband, the famed Davy Crockett, to return from war. Two of her children are buried next to her.
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Type
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Grave
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Language
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English
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Spatial Coverage
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Acton, Hood, Texas, USA
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content
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Gravestone:
Mrs. Elizabeth Crockett
Wife of
David Crockett
Born in Buncomb Co. N.C.
May 22. 1788,
Married to David Crockett
in Lawrence Co. Tenn. 1815.
Died in Johnson Co. Now Hood Co.
Jan. 31, 1860, Age 72 yrs.
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Inscription:
Marking a trail in a pathless wilderness pressing forward with unswerving courage she met each untried situation with a resourcefulness equal to the need with a glad heart she brought to her frontier family her homelands cultural heritage with delicate spiritual sensitiveness she illumined the dullness of routine and the loneliness of isolation with beauty and with life abundant and withal she lived with casual unawareness of her value to civilization such was the pioneer woman the unsung saint of the nations immortals
Jessie H Humphries
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Date Created
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1860
