Person:Charles Crockett (5)

Charles Allen Crockett was born in 1850, the fifth of eleven children, and first of five sons, born to Marmaduke Crockett and his wife, Jane Mullin. He and grew up in Springboro on the home farm settled by his grandfather, Andrew Crockett. Charles attended the district school, the South Charleston normal school, and the Miami Valley College. He was sixteen years old when his father died.

He devoted his early years to carpentry, a trade in which he was said to be highly gifted.

In January of 1871 or 1872 he married Sarah Melissa Moyer, and later that year a child was born that did not survive infancy. In November of the following year their son, John was born, and then their daughter, Clara in 1875. In November of 1876 Charles and Clara went to Texas where Charles engaged in growing cotton for two or three years. Whatever their fortunes there, Melissa returned to Springboro on September 10, 1878, and Charles returned four months later, just ten days before Melissa died on February 27 of that year. She was twenty nine years old.

In 1880 Charles was living with his widowed mother on her farm north of Springboro. He was working as a carpenter, and was unemployed for four months during that year. Clara, four years old that year, was living with her aunt Mary Elizabeth ("Libby") Merring, and her husband, David.

In September of the following year, Charles married Cornelia Jane Dearth, daughter of William L. and Elizabeth Bedford Dearth. During the next few years, Charles and Cornelia lived in Lima, Ohio, and all that while Charles's daughter, Clara, was probably living in Miamisbug with her adoptive grandparents, John and Catherine Early. It was probably when Charles and Cornelia returned from Lima to Springboro, in 1884, that Clara returned to living with her father.

In 1889, Cornelia gave birth to their son, Chester Dearth Crockett, and two years later to their daughter, Carrie M. Crockett.

Living on Charles and Cornelia's farm in 1900 were Morris Marks, a 19 year old black man, a farm laborer, who could not read or write, who born in Kentucky; and George Miller, a 68 year old tobacco buyer born in Germany.

In the 1910 census Charles Crockett was listed at Charley.

In 1910 census had a 67 year old servant: Melissa Langsdon, born in Indiana.

There is a family story that sometime in his life, Charles started out in a wagon with horses with his son, John. The two of them were heading to Florida, or somewhere south, taking along with them to something to sell, and they got robbed of all they had in Kentucky or Tennessee. So they had to turn around and come home. John had, for much or all of his life, vision that was poor enough that he was functionally blind.

Charles Crockett is buried in the Springboro Cemetery in Springboro, Ohio. His burial site is found at Latitude 39 degrees 32.8591, Longitude 84 14.5246.

Beside him is buried his second wife, Cornelia. His first wife Sarah lies at rest next to her adoptive parents in the Hillgrove Cemtery in Miamisburg, Ohio.