Judge Merrill A. Crockett, 67, Confederate veteran and Justice of Peace ofSt. Tammany for 18 years, died at Pearl River. (07-26-1906, ERA LEADER, Franklinton, Washington Parish, Louisiana)
St. Tammany Farmer., August 11, 1906
Obituary
At Pearl River, La., after a prolonged illness of several months, Judge Merrill Ashurst Crockett died on the 20th of July, 1906.
He was a Confederate veteran, having enlisted and served in the army from 1862 to the surrender, at which time he was First Lieutenant of Co. F, 34th Alabama Regiment, Capt. J. F. Ashurst, General Marsigault’s Brigade, Hill’s Division. He was wounded at Atlanta, Ga., in July, 1864.
In 1874, he came to West Pearl River on a visit to his sister, Mrs. John Sadler, and, liking the country so well, became a citizen of this parish. He was married to Mrs. Ellen Kelsey, nee Porter, in 1875, and made his home at Pearl River, where he was appointed Justice of the Peace, and served the Eighth Ward in that office six years faithfully and honestly. To him could be applied the poet’s aphorism, “An honest man, the noblest work of God.”
He told the Rev. J. Roberts, who visited him and held the burial services afterwards, that he joined the Methodist Church, South, fifty years ago, but had not kept up his membership, but was ready and willing to die.
He leaves a widow and one daughter, Mrs. Austin Howard, of Lumberton, Miss., one son, A. N. Crockett, of Poplarville; also three sisters, Mrs. J. A. Sadler, of Algiers; Mrs. Sallie Davis and Mrs. M. Sadler of Slidell, and two brothers, W. F. Crockett, of Pearl River, and David Crockett, of Birmingham, Ala., and many relatives in Alabama and Florida.
On the 21st of July, at the old Porter family burying ground, which is recorded in the parish archives and reserved forever as a sacred trust, the last sad rites were paid to his memory by his friends and he was laid to rest in “God’s Acre” until the last day shall come to all.
Peace to his rest.
MRS. L. CRARY SADLER.
St. Tammany Farmer., August 11, 1906
Obituary
At Pearl River, La., after a prolonged illness of several months, Judge Merrill Ashurst Crockett died on the 20th of July, 1906.
He was a Confederate veteran, having enlisted and served in the army from 1862 to the surrender, at which time he was First Lieutenant of Co. F, 34th Alabama Regiment, Capt. J. F. Ashurst, General Marsigault’s Brigade, Hill’s Division. He was wounded at Atlanta, Ga., in July, 1864.
In 1874, he came to West Pearl River on a visit to his sister, Mrs. John Sadler, and, liking the country so well, became a citizen of this parish. He was married to Mrs. Ellen Kelsey, nee Porter, in 1875, and made his home at Pearl River, where he was appointed Justice of the Peace, and served the Eighth Ward in that office six years faithfully and honestly. To him could be applied the poet’s aphorism, “An honest man, the noblest work of God.”
He told the Rev. J. Roberts, who visited him and held the burial services afterwards, that he joined the Methodist Church, South, fifty years ago, but had not kept up his membership, but was ready and willing to die.
He leaves a widow and one daughter, Mrs. Austin Howard, of Lumberton, Miss., one son, A. N. Crockett, of Poplarville; also three sisters, Mrs. J. A. Sadler, of Algiers; Mrs. Sallie Davis and Mrs. M. Sadler of Slidell, and two brothers, W. F. Crockett, of Pearl River, and David Crockett, of Birmingham, Ala., and many relatives in Alabama and Florida.
On the 21st of July, at the old Porter family burying ground, which is recorded in the parish archives and reserved forever as a sacred trust, the last sad rites were paid to his memory by his friends and he was laid to rest in “God’s Acre” until the last day shall come to all.
Peace to his rest.
MRS. L. CRARY SADLER.
Judge Merrill A. Crockett, 67, Confederate veteran and Justice of Peace ofSt. Tammany for 18 years, died at Pearl River. (07-26-1906, ERA LEADER, Franklinton, Washington Parish, Louisiana)
St. Tammany Farmer., August 11, 1906
Obituary
At Pearl River, La., after a prolonged illness of several months, Judge Merrill Ashurst Crockett died on the 20th of July, 1906.
He was a Confederate veteran, having enlisted and served in the army from 1862 to the surrender, at which time he was First Lieutenant of Co. F, 34th Alabama Regiment, Capt. J. F. Ashurst, General Marsigault’s Brigade, Hill’s Division. He was wounded at Atlanta, Ga., in July, 1864.
In 1874, he came to West Pearl River on a visit to his sister, Mrs. John Sadler, and, liking the country so well, became a citizen of this parish. He was married to Mrs. Ellen Kelsey, nee Porter, in 1875, and made his home at Pearl River, where he was appointed Justice of the Peace, and served the Eighth Ward in that office six years faithfully and honestly. To him could be applied the poet’s aphorism, “An honest man, the noblest work of God.”
He told the Rev. J. Roberts, who visited him and held the burial services afterwards, that he joined the Methodist Church, South, fifty years ago, but had not kept up his membership, but was ready and willing to die.
He leaves a widow and one daughter, Mrs. Austin Howard, of Lumberton, Miss., one son, A. N. Crockett, of Poplarville; also three sisters, Mrs. J. A. Sadler, of Algiers; Mrs. Sallie Davis and Mrs. M. Sadler of Slidell, and two brothers, W. F. Crockett, of Pearl River, and David Crockett, of Birmingham, Ala., and many relatives in Alabama and Florida.
On the 21st of July, at the old Porter family burying ground, which is recorded in the parish archives and reserved forever as a sacred trust, the last sad rites were paid to his memory by his friends and he was laid to rest in “God’s Acre” until the last day shall come to all.
Peace to his rest.
MRS. L. CRARY SADLER.
St. Tammany Farmer., August 11, 1906
Obituary
At Pearl River, La., after a prolonged illness of several months, Judge Merrill Ashurst Crockett died on the 20th of July, 1906.
He was a Confederate veteran, having enlisted and served in the army from 1862 to the surrender, at which time he was First Lieutenant of Co. F, 34th Alabama Regiment, Capt. J. F. Ashurst, General Marsigault’s Brigade, Hill’s Division. He was wounded at Atlanta, Ga., in July, 1864.
In 1874, he came to West Pearl River on a visit to his sister, Mrs. John Sadler, and, liking the country so well, became a citizen of this parish. He was married to Mrs. Ellen Kelsey, nee Porter, in 1875, and made his home at Pearl River, where he was appointed Justice of the Peace, and served the Eighth Ward in that office six years faithfully and honestly. To him could be applied the poet’s aphorism, “An honest man, the noblest work of God.”
He told the Rev. J. Roberts, who visited him and held the burial services afterwards, that he joined the Methodist Church, South, fifty years ago, but had not kept up his membership, but was ready and willing to die.
He leaves a widow and one daughter, Mrs. Austin Howard, of Lumberton, Miss., one son, A. N. Crockett, of Poplarville; also three sisters, Mrs. J. A. Sadler, of Algiers; Mrs. Sallie Davis and Mrs. M. Sadler of Slidell, and two brothers, W. F. Crockett, of Pearl River, and David Crockett, of Birmingham, Ala., and many relatives in Alabama and Florida.
On the 21st of July, at the old Porter family burying ground, which is recorded in the parish archives and reserved forever as a sacred trust, the last sad rites were paid to his memory by his friends and he was laid to rest in “God’s Acre” until the last day shall come to all.
Peace to his rest.
MRS. L. CRARY SADLER.
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