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15 Crockett, Narrative, 126.
16 Ibid., 127.
17 Petersen, David Crockett, The Volunteer Rifleman, 47.
18 Ibid.
NINETEEN • A TINCTURE OF LUCK
1 Crockett, Narrative, 118–20.
2 Van Zandt County Genealogical Society, Canton, TX, www.txgenweb3.org/txvanzandt/vzgs.htm.
3 Franklin County, TN, Will Book, 1808–1847, Folder 036 A, Franklin County Courthouse Annex, Winchester, TN. Frances T. Ingmire, Franklin County, Tennessee, Abstracted Wills, 1808–1875 (St. Louis: Frances Terry Ingmire, 1984), 27–28. David signed the document, but his brother John was unlettered and left his mark. Besides the Crocketts, a local man named John W. Holder was the third witness to the signing of the Van Zandt last will and testament. Jacob Van Zandt Sr. died January 6, 1818. One of his grandsons and the son of Jacob Jr., Crockett’s hunting mate, was Isaac Van Zandt, born in Franklin County in 1812. He went on to become an important political leader in the Republic of Texas, died of yellow fever while campaigning for governor in 1847, and had a Texas county named in his honor. Another descendant—Townes Van Zandt—became one of the premier Texas musicians during the 1970s and 1980s. Townes died at his Tennessee home of either a heart attack or a blood clot following hip surgery on New Year’s Day 1997, the same date that his idol, Hank Williams, died of a heart attack in 1953.
4 Crockett, Narrative, 127.
5 Ibid., 127–28. Tuscaloosa, AL, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Department of History & Archives, Montgomery, AL, www.archives.state.al.us/counties/tuscaloo.html. Incorporated in 1819, just one day after Alabama became a state, Tuscaloosa served as the state capital from 1826 until 1846.
6 Ibid.
7 Crockett, Narrative, 128.
8 Sonia Shah, “Resurgentmalaria.com,” www.resurgentmalaria.com/americas, 2006. This Web site, hosted by investigative journalist Sonia Shah, provides history, background, new technology, and other information about the disease.
9 Crockett, Narrative, 129.
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid., 130.
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid., 131–32.
14 Ibid., 132.
TWENTY • “ITCHY FOOTED”
1 Jones, Crockett Cousins, 23.
2 Brands, Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times, 314–15.
3 Remini, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 329.
4 Wilma Mankiller and Michael Wallis, Mankiller: A Chief and Her People (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 86.
5 Remini, Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 330.
6 Ibid.
7 Ibid., 331.
8 Crockett, Narrative, 132–33.
9 Shackford and Folmsbee, Facsimile Edition, 132, n. 17.
10 Jones, Crockett Cousins, 70. The will of Robert Crockett was written on September 8, 1834, and probated on March 2, 1836. Will Book C, 196, Cumberland County, KY.
11 Samuel K. Cowan, Sergeant York and His People (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1922), 24–25.
12 Conrad “Coonrod” Pile Files, http//homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bp2000/ fentress/pile_c.htm.
13 Ibid.
14 Ibid. Coonrod Pile and his wife, Mary Pile, were interned in the Wolf River Cemetery at Pall Mall. Nearby their graves lie the remains of the famous great-great-grandson, Sergeant Alvin C. York.
15 Alvin C. York, Sergeant York: His Own Life Story and War Diary (New York: Doubleday & Doran, 1928), March 1918 entry.
16 The Gowen Papers, Gowen Research Foundation, Lubbock, TX, http://freepages.geneaology.roots.web.com/-gowenrf.
TWENTY-ONE • “NATURAL BORN SENSE”
1 Bobby Alford, History of Lawrence County, Tennessee (n.p., the author, 1994), 21.
2 Petersen, David Crockett, The Volunteer Rifleman, 49. According to Petersen, Crockett became a member of the Shoal Creek Corporation in April 1817.
3 Lawrence County Historical Society, Lawrence County, Tennessee, Pictorial History (Paducah, KY: Turner Publishing, 1994), 14.
4 Alford, History of Lawrence County, Tennessee, 21.
5 Ibid., 27.
6 Ibid., 17. Jackson began work on the Military Road in the autumn of 1816, and the new route was completed in 1820. It was 516 miles in length, a reduction of more than 220 miles from the route of the Natchez Trace. In