FAMILY WEB
Israel Pickens Croft
(1820-1869)
GENETIC PARENTS
Father:
William Croft
Mother:
Rebecca Pickens
GENETIC CHILDREN
Daughter:
Margret Rebecca Croft (1844-1848)
Birth Date: 1844-01-01
Birth Place: Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Death Date: 1848-12-15
Burial Place: Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Daughter:
Sarah Lucanda Croft (1846-1874)
Birth Date: 1846-02-15
Birth Place: Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Marriage Date: 1862-08-26
Marriage Place: Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Spouse: D. M. Borden
Death Date: 1874-11-07
Son:
William Franklin Croft (1847-1891)
Birth Date: 1847-09-09
Birth Place: Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Marriage Date: 1868-08-12
Marriage Place: Limestone County, Texas
Spouse: Mary Jane Herring
Death Date: 1891-11-24
Burial Place: Prairie Grove Cemetery, Limestone County, Texas
Daughter:
Martha Frances Croft (1850-1891)
Birth Date: 1850-12-20
Birth Place: Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Marriage Date: 1872-01-11
Spouse: W. F. Barnes, died 1890-05-21
Death Date: 1891-05-21 (anniversary of husband's death?!)
Daughter:
Delila Jane Croft (1853-1854)
Birth Place: Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Birth Date: 1853-06-23
Death Date: 1854-07-02
Burial Place: Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Son:
Melvin Moore Croft
Son:
Edward Davis Croft (1858-1881)
Birth Date: 1858-03-21
Birth Place: Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Death Date: 1881-05-10
Son:
John Martin Croft (1861-1864)
Birth Date: 1861-07-10
Birth Place: Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Death Date: 1864-10-31
Burial Place: Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Son:
Benjamin Benamar Croft (1862-1900)
Birth Date: 1862-09-18
Birth Place: Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Marriage Date: 1884
Marriage Place: Limestone County, Texas
Spouse: Josie Woolverton
Death Date: 1900-10-02
Burial Place: West End Cemetery, Stephenville, Erath County, Texas
Son:
Robert Morton Croft (1866-1937)
Birth Date: 1866-09-21
Birth Place: Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Just NE of present day Vance, AL
Marriage Date: 1889-08-08
Marriage Place: Limestone County, Texas
Spouse: Mary Kaziah Morton
Death Date: 1937-02-12
Burial Place: Morton Chapel Cemetery, Morgan Hill, Erath County, Texas
OTHER RELATIONS
Wife:
Liazer Herring (1827-1904)
Daughter of: Stephen & Margaret Herring (1800 SC and 1804 Tenn.)
Birth Date: 1827-07-17
Birth Place: Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Death Date: 1904-02-09
Burial Place: Morton Chapel Cemetery, Morgan Mills, Erath County, Texas
Occupation: Homemaker, Seamstress
BASIC DATA
Names:
Israel Pickens Croft
(I'm guessing he was named after his maternal grandfather.)
Birth Date:
1820-12-02
Birth Place:
Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Death Date:
1869-12-20
Death Location:
Texas
Burial Place:
Waller Cemetery, Limestone County, Texas
Fallon Community, 9 miles south of Mexia, TX off FM 39.
inactive -- no road -- in pasture.
Approximately 200 yards from a road.
Ironstone marker with "IPC 1869" chisled on the face.
New marker set by Joseph Wallace Croft Sr. and Jr.
(Note to self: have Dad get GPS coordinates.)
Marriage Date:
1842-10-13
Marriage Place:
Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
Occupation:
Farmer
CONTACT
David Wallace Croft
(great-great-great-grandson)
HISTORY
Family legend says that during the Reconstruction after the Civil War, he came
across the son of a scallywag politician beating a horse. (A scallywag is
Northern supporter living in the South.)
He beat the man near to death, then took his family and fled
Alabama that night and eventually wound up in Texas.
The story above is a common "gone to Texas" story. The real reason
that he took his family to Texas is probably the two years of severe
drought (1865-1866) that caused many Alabama and Mississippi farmers
to move to the rich farm land in Texas.
(Source: J.W. Croft Jr. He says that the family legend was told to him by
a lady who was one of the descendents of Rebecca Pickens, wife of William Croft,
mother of Israel Pickens. Rebecca Pickens remarried to Meredith Moses and the
lady who told the family legend was a descendent of Pickens and Moses.)
Last updated
2003-12-22
by
David Wallace Croft.