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From: "Maril" <> (by way of Dean Crocker <>)
Subject: [CROCKER-L] Re: Abel Crocker
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:07:36 -0500


Thank you so much for writing. I know so little about the family before
L.P. Crocker. I know he married late in life and am still going through
the papers for better dates. He married Seminthia (Samantha) Haverly in
September of 1869 in Hamilton County Iowa. They then moved to Chatauqua
County, Cedar Vale, KS.

I know they had relatives in Galveston, TX because they went there often to
visit and L.P. (Philip) brought the cattle back to Chatauqua County. Also
my ggrandfather Frank O. Crocker and his wife Georgia Kygar lived in Texas
a few years before returning to Cedar Vale, KS.

I appreciate your help and hope I can find the missing link. I also wonder
if one of my problems (in locating information) was he was married before,
he went from VT to IL to CA to CO to IA where he married Samantha,

William G. Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
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CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY, Part 5
PHILIP CROCKER, farmer, was born in Burlington, Vt., 1838, where he lived
until 1854, thence to Illinois, locating at Rockford, remaining there until
1861, when he enlisted in the first company which volunteered in the State,
and served in the Eleventh Volunteer Infantry, under the first call for
75,000 troops, and served four months then enlisted in the Eighth Illinois
Cavalry, and served about thirteen months. After coming out of the army,
took a trip to the mountains, stopping in Salt Lake, Montano and Idaho, and
in 1869 went on to the Union Pacific Railroad, and engaged in freighting
and contracting. In the fall, returned to Illinois, and the following
spring went to Iowa and took a homestead; then in the fall of 1870,
migrated to Kansas, locating in Coffey County, and for a time was
contracting on the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Railroad, and the
following spring locating near the southern line of Howard County and
located a claim, but when the survey was made, fo!
und he was in the Indian Territory, and in September, 1871, located a claim
near the present site of Cedar Vale. His place was on Section 2, Town 34,
Range 8, on the Big Caney River; he then went to Texas, and bought and
drove the first cattle into the county ever brought from the South. Since
then, has been buying, raising and dealing in stock, and has a fine stock
farm of 600 acres, 320 inclosed by fence, 170 in cultivation; has a fine
orchard, plenty of timber and water, the place well stocked with 100 head
of cattle, 100 head of hogs, and ten head of horses. Mr. Crocker is a
thoroughgoing stock man, and has been very successful in his business. In
1870, was married at Homer, Iowa, to Miss Samantha Hoverly. They have three
children -- Willy, Frank and Mabelle. He is a member of Cedar Vale Post,
No. 99, G.A.R NOTE: It is not Samantha Hoverly but Seminthia Haverly.

Thanks again

Maril

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