Cro ck et t A ids Te x a s Revolution Early January 1836 David Crockett arrived in Nacogdoches, Texas, to give aid to the revolution taking place, he was 49, Born: August 17, 1786 in Greene County, Tennessee.
Crockett was a skilled hunter, frontiersman, soldier, politician, storyteller, and was well-known for his colorful personality and mythical feats. Crockett served in the Tennessee militia and was elected to the United States Congress in 1827, serving three terms.
Crockett did not have an easy childhood. He traveled around a lot and had many adventures. He started to hunt with his brothers before his 9th birthday. A little after he started going to school, he beat up a bully. He stopped going to school so that his teacher would not punish him. His teacher told his father that David was not at school. So he ran away from home so that his father would not beat him. He started moving around Tennessee, Virginia, and other places, according to his book about himself. A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett. Written by Himself in 1834. He came back home when he was 15, and his family welcomed him. He married Mary (Polly) Finley a day before his 20th birthday. They had three children, but Polly died at a young age. He married another woman, Elizabeth Patton in 1815. They had three children together.
As a US Representative, he became angry with President Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act, which forcedNative Americans to leave their land.
In 1834, He lost re-election to Congress that year.
He did not like Van Buren, so when Van Buren was elected president of the US, Crockett left Tennessee on November 1, 1835 with three other men to go to Texas and said, 'You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas” where he arrived the first week of January, 190 years ago in 1836.
Then on January 14, 1836, Crockett and 65 other men signed an oath before Judge John Forbes to the Provisional Government of Texas for six months that said, 'I have taken the oath of government and have enrolled my name as a volunteer and will set out for the Rio Grande in a few days with the volunteers from the United States.' Each man was promised about 4,600 acres of land. At this time no one was aware that Santa Anna was making his move on retaking “Bexar” San Antonio.
David Crockett, not “Davy” which was coined in the 1950's by Television and was commonly referred as 'King of the Wild Frontier”. There is a replica of the Crockett’s family cabin in which he was born that stands today in David Crockett Birthplace State Park, in Tennessee.
Crockett is famously remembered for his defense of the Alamo and his death in the battle.