Son of Sarah Johnson and Robert Crockett. Husband of Elvina McCorkle. Radford married Elvina 14 Feb 1854 in Carroll County, Georgia. Radford left a son, James Crocket, (1857-1936).
Radford was young when he passed away. He had become involved with a gang of robbers and made a terrible choice on McDonough Road, Cobb County. He murdered a man named Sam Landrum. His gang had followed him and expected he would have a sum of $600 on his person after a sell of his cotton crop. On his way home, Crockett, along with accomplices John Cobb, Jr and Gabriel Jones, knocked him out in his buggy, drug him into the woods, and beat his dead in until dead. After the murder, they discovered an amount of $1.50 on his person of which they robbed him of.
He recorded a full confession of the deeds, and then wrote letters to the other men encouraging them to do so also.
I hesitated to include these sad events and let it just fade into history, except for a newspaper I found about the incident (Source 2). In it, the author reports that young Radford pled guilty for his crimes, stating that "he had committed crime enough without adding the sin of lying to all that he had done." His poor wife stayed with him in his cell a lot of the time from the moment he was incarcerated until the hanging. During this time, he was baptized and made ready for his hanging. It was carried out on McDonough Road, very close to where the gang murdered Mr. Landrum. After the murder, his wife escorted his body back home to his parents in Haralson County.
*Sources:
1.Atlanta and its builders : a comprehensive history of the Gate City of the South, vol 2: pg. 1081-1083
2. Jacksonville Republican: 24 Jun 1858: pg. 2. (Newspaper)
After his death, his wife remarried three times, first to Andrew J Thrasher in Calhoun County, Ala on 14 May 1860. Later, she married John Sanford Pinkinton 12 Jun 1870 in Cleburne County, Alabama. In the 1900, census, she is listed as Elsie Kelley living with her daughter by Pinkinton, Frances Williams.
Radford was young when he passed away. He had become involved with a gang of robbers and made a terrible choice on McDonough Road, Cobb County. He murdered a man named Sam Landrum. His gang had followed him and expected he would have a sum of $600 on his person after a sell of his cotton crop. On his way home, Crockett, along with accomplices John Cobb, Jr and Gabriel Jones, knocked him out in his buggy, drug him into the woods, and beat his dead in until dead. After the murder, they discovered an amount of $1.50 on his person of which they robbed him of.
He recorded a full confession of the deeds, and then wrote letters to the other men encouraging them to do so also.
I hesitated to include these sad events and let it just fade into history, except for a newspaper I found about the incident (Source 2). In it, the author reports that young Radford pled guilty for his crimes, stating that "he had committed crime enough without adding the sin of lying to all that he had done." His poor wife stayed with him in his cell a lot of the time from the moment he was incarcerated until the hanging. During this time, he was baptized and made ready for his hanging. It was carried out on McDonough Road, very close to where the gang murdered Mr. Landrum. After the murder, his wife escorted his body back home to his parents in Haralson County.
*Sources:
1.Atlanta and its builders : a comprehensive history of the Gate City of the South, vol 2: pg. 1081-1083
2. Jacksonville Republican: 24 Jun 1858: pg. 2. (Newspaper)
After his death, his wife remarried three times, first to Andrew J Thrasher in Calhoun County, Ala on 14 May 1860. Later, she married John Sanford Pinkinton 12 Jun 1870 in Cleburne County, Alabama. In the 1900, census, she is listed as Elsie Kelley living with her daughter by Pinkinton, Frances Williams.
Son of Sarah Johnson and Robert Crockett. Husband of Elvina McCorkle. Radford married Elvina 14 Feb 1854 in Carroll County, Georgia. Radford left a son, James Crocket, (1857-1936).
Radford was young when he passed away. He had become involved with a gang of robbers and made a terrible choice on McDonough Road, Cobb County. He murdered a man named Sam Landrum. His gang had followed him and expected he would have a sum of $600 on his person after a sell of his cotton crop. On his way home, Crockett, along with accomplices John Cobb, Jr and Gabriel Jones, knocked him out in his buggy, drug him into the woods, and beat his dead in until dead. After the murder, they discovered an amount of $1.50 on his person of which they robbed him of.
He recorded a full confession of the deeds, and then wrote letters to the other men encouraging them to do so also.
I hesitated to include these sad events and let it just fade into history, except for a newspaper I found about the incident (Source 2). In it, the author reports that young Radford pled guilty for his crimes, stating that "he had committed crime enough without adding the sin of lying to all that he had done." His poor wife stayed with him in his cell a lot of the time from the moment he was incarcerated until the hanging. During this time, he was baptized and made ready for his hanging. It was carried out on McDonough Road, very close to where the gang murdered Mr. Landrum. After the murder, his wife escorted his body back home to his parents in Haralson County.
*Sources:
1.Atlanta and its builders : a comprehensive history of the Gate City of the South, vol 2: pg. 1081-1083
2. Jacksonville Republican: 24 Jun 1858: pg. 2. (Newspaper)
After his death, his wife remarried three times, first to Andrew J Thrasher in Calhoun County, Ala on 14 May 1860. Later, she married John Sanford Pinkinton 12 Jun 1870 in Cleburne County, Alabama. In the 1900, census, she is listed as Elsie Kelley living with her daughter by Pinkinton, Frances Williams.
Radford was young when he passed away. He had become involved with a gang of robbers and made a terrible choice on McDonough Road, Cobb County. He murdered a man named Sam Landrum. His gang had followed him and expected he would have a sum of $600 on his person after a sell of his cotton crop. On his way home, Crockett, along with accomplices John Cobb, Jr and Gabriel Jones, knocked him out in his buggy, drug him into the woods, and beat his dead in until dead. After the murder, they discovered an amount of $1.50 on his person of which they robbed him of.
He recorded a full confession of the deeds, and then wrote letters to the other men encouraging them to do so also.
I hesitated to include these sad events and let it just fade into history, except for a newspaper I found about the incident (Source 2). In it, the author reports that young Radford pled guilty for his crimes, stating that "he had committed crime enough without adding the sin of lying to all that he had done." His poor wife stayed with him in his cell a lot of the time from the moment he was incarcerated until the hanging. During this time, he was baptized and made ready for his hanging. It was carried out on McDonough Road, very close to where the gang murdered Mr. Landrum. After the murder, his wife escorted his body back home to his parents in Haralson County.
*Sources:
1.Atlanta and its builders : a comprehensive history of the Gate City of the South, vol 2: pg. 1081-1083
2. Jacksonville Republican: 24 Jun 1858: pg. 2. (Newspaper)
After his death, his wife remarried three times, first to Andrew J Thrasher in Calhoun County, Ala on 14 May 1860. Later, she married John Sanford Pinkinton 12 Jun 1870 in Cleburne County, Alabama. In the 1900, census, she is listed as Elsie Kelley living with her daughter by Pinkinton, Frances Williams.
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