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From: Paula Crocker <>
Subject: RE: [CROCKER-L] Lost Crockers with funny toes
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 98 13:14:26 -0800


Hello Crocker Cousins:

I have been reading the Crocker cousins information from the Internet.

My mother is doing our family genealogy. My father was Raymond Wesley Crocker, he is the known descendent of Robert Monroe Crocker who was married to an Elizabeth Bell. T the only history we have on Robert is that he had sons named John Herman,(wife was Mary Etta Alexander born in Illinois, January 8, 1876, married August 25, 1892 in Alvarado, Johnson County, TX) Thomas J.(no information), ( Robert Wesley (wife was Effie Elva Alexander born in Edgewood Illinois June 18, 1871, married July 21, 1888 in Dallas TX, sister to Mary Etta), JM, (no information), and GW (no information and sisters Francis (no information), Mary Anne, Hattie Moriah. We found this information in the Johnson County, (Alvarado TX) 1870 census . The 1860 census of Decatur, TX shows that Robert Wesley was born that year. My grandfather, Clarence Theodore son of Robert Wesley was born in Alvarado, TX on January 16, 1905. We are looking for any information in the line. We have quite a bit of informat!
ion from Robert Monroe down but this is not complete. We do not have any information prior to Robert Monroe.

The reason I have responded to you is that I a Crocker descendent have the Crocker trait of the long second toe. My youngest brother David Ernest also has this trait. I am not sure about my other four brothers as they live in other towns and I will have to ask them.

Hope we can help each other out. Have a good year

Paula Jean Crocker (daughter of Raymond Wesley Crocker and Imogene (Blankenship) Crocker

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From: OAK6LEY <>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 1998 11:52 PM
To:
Subject: [CROCKER-L] Lost Crockers with funny toes

Hello Crocker cosuins,

First let me wish ya'll a late Happy holidays.
I have been reading the post on list hoping somehow I could fiqure out how the
heck the Crockers I have fit into the picture but as of yet I haven't. But it
will all fall into place one day :-)
Just before the holidays Les from New Zealand sent a post to the list asking
about an Emanuel Crocker who had come from Devonshire (?) England to some
where in the US. The rest of Emanuel's family went to New Zealand.

One of the names I found in the Central Hill Baptist Church Cemetry located in
Isle of Wight Co. was Emanuel Crocker- BUT- This Emanuel was the grandson of
my Joel Crocker ( my brick wall) who married Elizabeth Sykes in Isle of Wight
abt 1850. The name was too unusual not to responde (the other names I found
were -John Samuel; Charles Henry; William Andrew and they had a sister
Cathrine.

Les and I corresponded a few times and in our conversations he made note of a
physical trait that seems to carry generation to generation in his Crocker
line-
This may sound crazy but he noted that the second toe was often longer then
the big toe throughout the generations- While I was reading that post- my
husband (who is the actual Crocker descendant) was standing beside me
barefoot- His second toe is longer than his big toe and so is one of our
children's.
Aside from the humor of all this- I was wondering does this trait appear in
any of the other Crocker lines that ya'll have?
I am beginning to suspect that "Joel Crocker" showed up in Isle of Wight as an
adult- connected to the exsisting Crockers but not a direct connection-
Joel's father was suppose to be William, yet all the Williams of that time
frame did not have a son named Joel- (the Emanuel Crocker I found in my
Crocker plot was son of William Andrew Crocker ; Son of Joel, Son of Wm
Joel was a taylor by trade yet he married into wealth when he married
Elizabeth Sykes (maybe Sikes)
Joel and Elizabeth's marriage is documented (according to another researcher
within the family) in the Isle of Wight Co. court house and it is this
marriage that is the first documentation of Joel that can be found in the Co.
aslo according to the researcher)
Elizabeth Sykes is from a branch of the Sykes family of Isle of Wight and her
family had extensive holdings in the county and she was an only child that
inherited all the family holdings.
Elizabeth Sykes Crocker Of Isle of Wight gave each of her four children a farm
in Isle of Wight by either farms inherited or purchased to make things equal.
The farm she gave to William Andrew Crocker is said to have been granted in
the 1700's to a William Oakley but no records show that it was the Wm.
Crocker who was suppose to be Joel's father.
Texan- I sure wish I could claim your William- but from all that I can gather-
I can't place any of the Crockers from my line in NC- but maybe if some of you
have long second toes!!!!

Have a good day and slowly but surely- I am going to find out where Joel
materilized from!

Sandra Mann Oakley

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