Person:Mary Unknown (4501)

According to some sources, Mary, wife of John King was a 1st cousin of Davy Crockett.

The following wills in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, of William King, may tie-into this somehow:

Notes from the"The Mecklenburg Signesrs and Their Neighbors", by Worth S. Ray

William King, his wife, probated in Mecklenbur County, N.C. on NOv. 1, 1788. Will BookD Page 138 mentions: My dear wife mary Ann King, my four children. 1. Archiblad Crockett, 2. John King 3. Elizabeth McCorkle 4. William McCullough Executors named are Archibald Crockett and John King. Witnesses, were Eli Crockett, john Elliott and Henry Downs

This William King lived somewhere East of Providence church, of which Archilbald Crockett ws one of the first elders. He ws the great-grandfather of the famous David (Davy) Crockett of Tenn. and Texas, his daughter having married Archibald Crockett, the Henry downs who signed this will as one of the witness was a Signer of the Mecklenburg Declaration on May 20, 1775

CROCKETT

Notes from "The Mecklenburg Signers and Their Neighbors", by Worth S.Ray. Archibald Crockett, his wife proved in Mecklenburg County, N.C. Jan 3, 1804 (his wife was a King) mentions:

1. Son, Elias Crockett, land where I live 2. Daughter, Ann Crockett, wife of a Mr. Taylor, tract of land where Frederick Taylor lives (evidently Ann married Frederick Taylor)> 3. Son John Crockett, to him i will and gequeath a tract and parcel of land now lying in the hands of Col. Thomas King, now living inthe State ofTenn., in Hawkins county, and all the rest of my property, except one woman's saddle, t be taken out for my daughter mary ann> Executores: Son John Crockett and SamuelDowns, in the presence of Eli Crocket and Clias Crocket

The above will of the grandfather of the celebrated and famous David (Davy) Crockett, his fahte being the son of John Crockett mentioned in the will. This will refutes the idea that the father of "David Crockett" was a penniless "back woodsman" in Ten, and shows that he was a close kinsman of the Honorable Thomas King, an uncle, who lived in and helped to corgaize Hawkins County, Tenn,. (in 1786), and who served from that diestrict in the Legislature of N.C.

1. ↑ Trails of Time, Genealogy Website of Mary Underwood, http:/www.primenet.com/~azcat.home.htm, (e-mail: azcat@@primenet.com).