In the southwest section of the Mt. Zion Cemetery, row 3, gravesite 3 lies Crockett Hubbard Walling. He is one of about a dozen men buried in the cemetery who served in the Civil War.
When Crockett Hubbard Walling was born on March 10, 1834, in White County, Tennessee, his father, Jesse, was 33 and his mother, Nancy, was 29. He was their 6th child born.
His county of birth, White County, was named for John White (1751-1846), a Revolutionary War soldier, surveyor, and frontiersman who was the first known white settler of the area. The County is located in the central area of Tennessee.
Source: https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/White_County,_Tennessee_Genealogy
During the 1840's, Crockett's parents died in White County, Tennessee. After this time, his family began to appear in Texas.
His brother, Smith Jones Walling, died in 1852 and was buried in Rusk County in the Oak Hill Cemetery. Therefore, we know Crockett could have been in Texas as early as 1852 but does not show up on the 1850 Census.
Crockett Walling married Winnifred 'Winnie' Gist on January 17, 1855, in Henderson, Rusk County (now Cherokee County), Texas.
There were other early settlers in Texas from White County, Tennessee, with connections to Rusk County and with the surname of Walling (or Walden). As early as the 1830's, the Walling family started a community on the Sabine River. Walling's Ferry (later renamed Camden, and most recently, Easton), developed around a ferry crossing built by John C. Walling Jr. near his home on the Sabine River.
Source: https://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/rusk/historic.html
Another of note was, WALLING, JESSE (1794–1867), soldier and legislator, was born on June 17, 1794, the son of John and Anna (Chisum) Walling, and the cousin of Elisha Walling. Walling immigrated to Texas in December 1834, residing for one year in San Augustine County before joining his brothers Thomas Jefferson Walling and John Walling in Nacogdoches in 1835. On March 6, 1836, Walling enlisted as a private in Capt. Hayden S. Arnold's First Company in Col. Sidney Sherman's Second Regiment, Texas Volunteers, and took part in the battle of San Jacinto. His son Jonathan C. Walling was also a member of Sam Houston's army but was ill during the battle of San Jacinto and so remained with the baggage wagons at Harrisburg.
Walling represented Nacogdoches County in the Texas legislature. Thereafter Walling lived for a number of years in the Rusk County community of Millville and in 1857 was elected to the US House of Representatives from Rusk County. He died in Millville on August 11, 1867 and was buried in the Walling Bend Cemetery in Bosque County, some six miles from Whitney.
Source: https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/walling-jesse
Residences in Texas
Therefore, the Walling family established a foothold in Texas early on. Because many used similar first names, this made it difficult to trace specific family members. To complicate matters, Crockett's mother's maiden name was also Walling, meaning that both sets of his grandparents were of the Walling clan. Additionally, Crockett's older brother, Daniel, had also married into the Gist family and Crockett married Daniel's wife's sister.
Crockett Walling and his wife, Winnie had 13 children in 21 years. Of that number, only 5 were boys that lived to adulthood.
We can track where the children were born to measure when they began living in Hopkins County. Many of their children were born in the Greenwood community, not to be confused with the Greenwood school once located in the Branom Community.
GREENWOOD, TX (HOPKINS COUNTY).Greenwood is on Farm Road 900 near what is now the Franklin County line six miles south of Saltillo in far eastern Hopkins County. It was established around 1859 and originally known as Penn after the Penn family, prominent local settlers. A store opened there in 1874, and a post office named Penn operated from 1880 until 1906. By 1885 the town had three churches, a school, a steam gristmill and cotton gin, a general store, a blacksmith, a harness maker, and a population of sixty. In 1892 the town had a reported population of 100.
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/greenwood-tx-hopkins-county
Other children are shown being born in nearby neighborhoods in eastern Hopkins County off and around FM 900, such as Saltillo and White Oak, bordering what was then Titus County.
The 1860 Census shows Crockett and his family living in the White Oak area next to Loucinda Gist, his widowed mother-in-law and her family.
The Civil War
When the Civil War began, Crockett enlisted for the Confederacy as a private in Company K, 19th Infantry on December 1, 1861. His brother, Daniel, joined the Texas Cavalry, Company B, at Cypress Church, just south of Mt. Vernon near the Hopkins/Franklin County border. His brother, Elijah, also joined the infantry and his brother, Creed Allen joined the Cavalry. Some Texas preferred the Cavalry, even refusing to serve when attempts were made to transfer them to infantry.
Comparing the numbers of recruits to that of conscripts, it appears that most men preferred to fight with friends and family from the same city or county, so, volunteering for service in a newly formed company was clearly more popular than waiting for conscription officers. While not everyone in Texas enlisted for the same reasons, it would be reasonable to conclude that most of the early enlistees into the Nineteenth Texas Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Nineteenth Texas Infantry) were motivated by a desire to avoid conscription and to protect their communities from Union invasions like those to the north and east.
Source: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc699958/m2/1/high_res_d/thesis.pdf
The 19th Texas Infantry were most involved in fighting to protect Texas in the Red River campaign.
Like others who fought for the confederacy, many died from disease, such as measles, dysentery, and diarrhea while others died from inclement weather, lack of equipment and food.
The 19th Infantry was successful in the overall Red River campaign in that Union forces were repelled from taking Shreveport and therefore from destroying the Trans-Mississippi headquarters and invading Texas. In the seventy days of the campaign, Walker's Texas Division, including the Nineteenth Texas Infantry, marched some 900 miles, fought and contributed substantially to three major battles, suffered heavy losses (1,450 men, or 36 percent of their original 4,000), but ultimately prevented an invasion of their home state.
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/nineteenth-texas-infantry
After the war, Texas confederates returned to their farms to find their homes largely intact. There is no record that Crockett owned slaves; therefore, his farming enterprise would have been less affected. However, having only a few sons left him with plenty of farm work.
The Reconstruction Period: 1865 and following
Crockett's specific service records were not found, but he must have taken leave and visited family during his service, since he fathered children back in Hopkins County during the time of the war. In 1867, he registered to vote and took an oath swearing allegiance to the United States.
These records list the names of more than 139,000 men aged 21 and over who registered to vote in Texas between 1867 and 1869 during the reconstruction period.
Reconstruction was a difficult period of adjustment as some former confederate soldiers did not give up the fight. For example, Ben Bickerstaff led a gang out of the Hopkins County area by hiding out in the local brush thickets, such as Jernigan's Thicket near Commerce, and attacking Federal troops stationed around Sulphur Springs.
Besides Jernigan's Thicket, there were others such as Big Creek Thicket, Black Cat Thicket, Hobbs Thicket, Mustang Thicket, Tidwell Thicket and Wildcat Thicket.
According to Hopkins County historian June Tuck, to quell unrest in Hopkins County, the union sent a regiment of troops on August 10, 1868, three years after the war had ended, to take up residence in Sulphur Springs. On August 14, 1868, a skirmish between Union soldiers and Hopkins County "troublemakers" left two union officers dead. The union detail marched out four miles from town to investigate reports of a black woman being whipped by a particular group of men named Bickerstaff, Baker, Farrar, and Lee, when they were ambushed by these same men. This, Tuck writes, was the start of an intense and troubling period of guerilla fighting between the two sides.
Source: David Pickering and Judy Falls, Brush Men and Vigilantes: Civil War dissent in Texas. (Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 2000), 1.
https://frontporchnewstexas.com/2022/04/11/history-union-stockade/
Crockett's youngest son, Robert was born in eastern Hopkins County, near Greenwood. So the family was still living in the area as late as 1875, when western Titus County became Franklin County. Records are unclear when Crockett and his family moved to western Hopkins County.
Traces in the Branom Community
It appears that Crockett's son, Joseph Crockett Henry "Dud" Walling, is the only child who married into the Mt. Zion family (Burns family). He married Prudence Burns in 1885.
In 1890, son, Robert was baptized and joined the presbyterian church at a revival in the Mt. Zion church. We can assume the family belonged to the Mt. Zion Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Therefore, it appears that Crockett only lived in the Branom Community a few years.
Death
He was laid to rest on March 3, 1888, in Cumby, Texas, at the age of 53, and was buried in the Mt. Zion Cemetery in western Hopkins County, Texas. His daughter, Mattie, died the same year Crockett did and is buried nearby. His wife, Winnie, died about 2 years later and is buried next to him.
Contributor: DrBill (49036336) •
When Crockett Hubbard Walling was born on March 10, 1834, in White County, Tennessee, his father, Jesse, was 33 and his mother, Nancy, was 29. He was their 6th child born.
His county of birth, White County, was named for John White (1751-1846), a Revolutionary War soldier, surveyor, and frontiersman who was the first known white settler of the area. The County is located in the central area of Tennessee.
Source: https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/White_County,_Tennessee_Genealogy
During the 1840's, Crockett's parents died in White County, Tennessee. After this time, his family began to appear in Texas.
His brother, Smith Jones Walling, died in 1852 and was buried in Rusk County in the Oak Hill Cemetery. Therefore, we know Crockett could have been in Texas as early as 1852 but does not show up on the 1850 Census.
Crockett Walling married Winnifred 'Winnie' Gist on January 17, 1855, in Henderson, Rusk County (now Cherokee County), Texas.
There were other early settlers in Texas from White County, Tennessee, with connections to Rusk County and with the surname of Walling (or Walden). As early as the 1830's, the Walling family started a community on the Sabine River. Walling's Ferry (later renamed Camden, and most recently, Easton), developed around a ferry crossing built by John C. Walling Jr. near his home on the Sabine River.
Source: https://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/rusk/historic.html
Another of note was, WALLING, JESSE (1794–1867), soldier and legislator, was born on June 17, 1794, the son of John and Anna (Chisum) Walling, and the cousin of Elisha Walling. Walling immigrated to Texas in December 1834, residing for one year in San Augustine County before joining his brothers Thomas Jefferson Walling and John Walling in Nacogdoches in 1835. On March 6, 1836, Walling enlisted as a private in Capt. Hayden S. Arnold's First Company in Col. Sidney Sherman's Second Regiment, Texas Volunteers, and took part in the battle of San Jacinto. His son Jonathan C. Walling was also a member of Sam Houston's army but was ill during the battle of San Jacinto and so remained with the baggage wagons at Harrisburg.
Walling represented Nacogdoches County in the Texas legislature. Thereafter Walling lived for a number of years in the Rusk County community of Millville and in 1857 was elected to the US House of Representatives from Rusk County. He died in Millville on August 11, 1867 and was buried in the Walling Bend Cemetery in Bosque County, some six miles from Whitney.
Source: https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/walling-jesse
Residences in Texas
Therefore, the Walling family established a foothold in Texas early on. Because many used similar first names, this made it difficult to trace specific family members. To complicate matters, Crockett's mother's maiden name was also Walling, meaning that both sets of his grandparents were of the Walling clan. Additionally, Crockett's older brother, Daniel, had also married into the Gist family and Crockett married Daniel's wife's sister.
Crockett Walling and his wife, Winnie had 13 children in 21 years. Of that number, only 5 were boys that lived to adulthood.
We can track where the children were born to measure when they began living in Hopkins County. Many of their children were born in the Greenwood community, not to be confused with the Greenwood school once located in the Branom Community.
GREENWOOD, TX (HOPKINS COUNTY).Greenwood is on Farm Road 900 near what is now the Franklin County line six miles south of Saltillo in far eastern Hopkins County. It was established around 1859 and originally known as Penn after the Penn family, prominent local settlers. A store opened there in 1874, and a post office named Penn operated from 1880 until 1906. By 1885 the town had three churches, a school, a steam gristmill and cotton gin, a general store, a blacksmith, a harness maker, and a population of sixty. In 1892 the town had a reported population of 100.
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/greenwood-tx-hopkins-county
Other children are shown being born in nearby neighborhoods in eastern Hopkins County off and around FM 900, such as Saltillo and White Oak, bordering what was then Titus County.
The 1860 Census shows Crockett and his family living in the White Oak area next to Loucinda Gist, his widowed mother-in-law and her family.
The Civil War
When the Civil War began, Crockett enlisted for the Confederacy as a private in Company K, 19th Infantry on December 1, 1861. His brother, Daniel, joined the Texas Cavalry, Company B, at Cypress Church, just south of Mt. Vernon near the Hopkins/Franklin County border. His brother, Elijah, also joined the infantry and his brother, Creed Allen joined the Cavalry. Some Texas preferred the Cavalry, even refusing to serve when attempts were made to transfer them to infantry.
Comparing the numbers of recruits to that of conscripts, it appears that most men preferred to fight with friends and family from the same city or county, so, volunteering for service in a newly formed company was clearly more popular than waiting for conscription officers. While not everyone in Texas enlisted for the same reasons, it would be reasonable to conclude that most of the early enlistees into the Nineteenth Texas Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Nineteenth Texas Infantry) were motivated by a desire to avoid conscription and to protect their communities from Union invasions like those to the north and east.
Source: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc699958/m2/1/high_res_d/thesis.pdf
The 19th Texas Infantry were most involved in fighting to protect Texas in the Red River campaign.
Like others who fought for the confederacy, many died from disease, such as measles, dysentery, and diarrhea while others died from inclement weather, lack of equipment and food.
The 19th Infantry was successful in the overall Red River campaign in that Union forces were repelled from taking Shreveport and therefore from destroying the Trans-Mississippi headquarters and invading Texas. In the seventy days of the campaign, Walker's Texas Division, including the Nineteenth Texas Infantry, marched some 900 miles, fought and contributed substantially to three major battles, suffered heavy losses (1,450 men, or 36 percent of their original 4,000), but ultimately prevented an invasion of their home state.
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/nineteenth-texas-infantry
After the war, Texas confederates returned to their farms to find their homes largely intact. There is no record that Crockett owned slaves; therefore, his farming enterprise would have been less affected. However, having only a few sons left him with plenty of farm work.
The Reconstruction Period: 1865 and following
Crockett's specific service records were not found, but he must have taken leave and visited family during his service, since he fathered children back in Hopkins County during the time of the war. In 1867, he registered to vote and took an oath swearing allegiance to the United States.
These records list the names of more than 139,000 men aged 21 and over who registered to vote in Texas between 1867 and 1869 during the reconstruction period.
Reconstruction was a difficult period of adjustment as some former confederate soldiers did not give up the fight. For example, Ben Bickerstaff led a gang out of the Hopkins County area by hiding out in the local brush thickets, such as Jernigan's Thicket near Commerce, and attacking Federal troops stationed around Sulphur Springs.
Besides Jernigan's Thicket, there were others such as Big Creek Thicket, Black Cat Thicket, Hobbs Thicket, Mustang Thicket, Tidwell Thicket and Wildcat Thicket.
According to Hopkins County historian June Tuck, to quell unrest in Hopkins County, the union sent a regiment of troops on August 10, 1868, three years after the war had ended, to take up residence in Sulphur Springs. On August 14, 1868, a skirmish between Union soldiers and Hopkins County "troublemakers" left two union officers dead. The union detail marched out four miles from town to investigate reports of a black woman being whipped by a particular group of men named Bickerstaff, Baker, Farrar, and Lee, when they were ambushed by these same men. This, Tuck writes, was the start of an intense and troubling period of guerilla fighting between the two sides.
Source: David Pickering and Judy Falls, Brush Men and Vigilantes: Civil War dissent in Texas. (Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 2000), 1.
https://frontporchnewstexas.com/2022/04/11/history-union-stockade/
Crockett's youngest son, Robert was born in eastern Hopkins County, near Greenwood. So the family was still living in the area as late as 1875, when western Titus County became Franklin County. Records are unclear when Crockett and his family moved to western Hopkins County.
Traces in the Branom Community
It appears that Crockett's son, Joseph Crockett Henry "Dud" Walling, is the only child who married into the Mt. Zion family (Burns family). He married Prudence Burns in 1885.
In 1890, son, Robert was baptized and joined the presbyterian church at a revival in the Mt. Zion church. We can assume the family belonged to the Mt. Zion Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Therefore, it appears that Crockett only lived in the Branom Community a few years.
Death
He was laid to rest on March 3, 1888, in Cumby, Texas, at the age of 53, and was buried in the Mt. Zion Cemetery in western Hopkins County, Texas. His daughter, Mattie, died the same year Crockett did and is buried nearby. His wife, Winnie, died about 2 years later and is buried next to him.
Contributor: DrBill (49036336) •
In the southwest section of the Mt. Zion Cemetery, row 3, gravesite 3 lies Crockett Hubbard Walling. He is one of about a dozen men buried in the cemetery who served in the Civil War.
When Crockett Hubbard Walling was born on March 10, 1834, in White County, Tennessee, his father, Jesse, was 33 and his mother, Nancy, was 29. He was their 6th child born.
His county of birth, White County, was named for John White (1751-1846), a Revolutionary War soldier, surveyor, and frontiersman who was the first known white settler of the area. The County is located in the central area of Tennessee.
Source: https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/White_County,_Tennessee_Genealogy
During the 1840's, Crockett's parents died in White County, Tennessee. After this time, his family began to appear in Texas.
His brother, Smith Jones Walling, died in 1852 and was buried in Rusk County in the Oak Hill Cemetery. Therefore, we know Crockett could have been in Texas as early as 1852 but does not show up on the 1850 Census.
Crockett Walling married Winnifred 'Winnie' Gist on January 17, 1855, in Henderson, Rusk County (now Cherokee County), Texas.
There were other early settlers in Texas from White County, Tennessee, with connections to Rusk County and with the surname of Walling (or Walden). As early as the 1830's, the Walling family started a community on the Sabine River. Walling's Ferry (later renamed Camden, and most recently, Easton), developed around a ferry crossing built by John C. Walling Jr. near his home on the Sabine River.
Source: https://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/rusk/historic.html
Another of note was, WALLING, JESSE (1794–1867), soldier and legislator, was born on June 17, 1794, the son of John and Anna (Chisum) Walling, and the cousin of Elisha Walling. Walling immigrated to Texas in December 1834, residing for one year in San Augustine County before joining his brothers Thomas Jefferson Walling and John Walling in Nacogdoches in 1835. On March 6, 1836, Walling enlisted as a private in Capt. Hayden S. Arnold's First Company in Col. Sidney Sherman's Second Regiment, Texas Volunteers, and took part in the battle of San Jacinto. His son Jonathan C. Walling was also a member of Sam Houston's army but was ill during the battle of San Jacinto and so remained with the baggage wagons at Harrisburg.
Walling represented Nacogdoches County in the Texas legislature. Thereafter Walling lived for a number of years in the Rusk County community of Millville and in 1857 was elected to the US House of Representatives from Rusk County. He died in Millville on August 11, 1867 and was buried in the Walling Bend Cemetery in Bosque County, some six miles from Whitney.
Source: https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/walling-jesse
Residences in Texas
Therefore, the Walling family established a foothold in Texas early on. Because many used similar first names, this made it difficult to trace specific family members. To complicate matters, Crockett's mother's maiden name was also Walling, meaning that both sets of his grandparents were of the Walling clan. Additionally, Crockett's older brother, Daniel, had also married into the Gist family and Crockett married Daniel's wife's sister.
Crockett Walling and his wife, Winnie had 13 children in 21 years. Of that number, only 5 were boys that lived to adulthood.
We can track where the children were born to measure when they began living in Hopkins County. Many of their children were born in the Greenwood community, not to be confused with the Greenwood school once located in the Branom Community.
GREENWOOD, TX (HOPKINS COUNTY).Greenwood is on Farm Road 900 near what is now the Franklin County line six miles south of Saltillo in far eastern Hopkins County. It was established around 1859 and originally known as Penn after the Penn family, prominent local settlers. A store opened there in 1874, and a post office named Penn operated from 1880 until 1906. By 1885 the town had three churches, a school, a steam gristmill and cotton gin, a general store, a blacksmith, a harness maker, and a population of sixty. In 1892 the town had a reported population of 100.
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/greenwood-tx-hopkins-county
Other children are shown being born in nearby neighborhoods in eastern Hopkins County off and around FM 900, such as Saltillo and White Oak, bordering what was then Titus County.
The 1860 Census shows Crockett and his family living in the White Oak area next to Loucinda Gist, his widowed mother-in-law and her family.
The Civil War
When the Civil War began, Crockett enlisted for the Confederacy as a private in Company K, 19th Infantry on December 1, 1861. His brother, Daniel, joined the Texas Cavalry, Company B, at Cypress Church, just south of Mt. Vernon near the Hopkins/Franklin County border. His brother, Elijah, also joined the infantry and his brother, Creed Allen joined the Cavalry. Some Texas preferred the Cavalry, even refusing to serve when attempts were made to transfer them to infantry.
Comparing the numbers of recruits to that of conscripts, it appears that most men preferred to fight with friends and family from the same city or county, so, volunteering for service in a newly formed company was clearly more popular than waiting for conscription officers. While not everyone in Texas enlisted for the same reasons, it would be reasonable to conclude that most of the early enlistees into the Nineteenth Texas Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Nineteenth Texas Infantry) were motivated by a desire to avoid conscription and to protect their communities from Union invasions like those to the north and east.
Source: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc699958/m2/1/high_res_d/thesis.pdf
The 19th Texas Infantry were most involved in fighting to protect Texas in the Red River campaign.
Like others who fought for the confederacy, many died from disease, such as measles, dysentery, and diarrhea while others died from inclement weather, lack of equipment and food.
The 19th Infantry was successful in the overall Red River campaign in that Union forces were repelled from taking Shreveport and therefore from destroying the Trans-Mississippi headquarters and invading Texas. In the seventy days of the campaign, Walker's Texas Division, including the Nineteenth Texas Infantry, marched some 900 miles, fought and contributed substantially to three major battles, suffered heavy losses (1,450 men, or 36 percent of their original 4,000), but ultimately prevented an invasion of their home state.
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/nineteenth-texas-infantry
After the war, Texas confederates returned to their farms to find their homes largely intact. There is no record that Crockett owned slaves; therefore, his farming enterprise would have been less affected. However, having only a few sons left him with plenty of farm work.
The Reconstruction Period: 1865 and following
Crockett's specific service records were not found, but he must have taken leave and visited family during his service, since he fathered children back in Hopkins County during the time of the war. In 1867, he registered to vote and took an oath swearing allegiance to the United States.
These records list the names of more than 139,000 men aged 21 and over who registered to vote in Texas between 1867 and 1869 during the reconstruction period.
Reconstruction was a difficult period of adjustment as some former confederate soldiers did not give up the fight. For example, Ben Bickerstaff led a gang out of the Hopkins County area by hiding out in the local brush thickets, such as Jernigan's Thicket near Commerce, and attacking Federal troops stationed around Sulphur Springs.
Besides Jernigan's Thicket, there were others such as Big Creek Thicket, Black Cat Thicket, Hobbs Thicket, Mustang Thicket, Tidwell Thicket and Wildcat Thicket.
According to Hopkins County historian June Tuck, to quell unrest in Hopkins County, the union sent a regiment of troops on August 10, 1868, three years after the war had ended, to take up residence in Sulphur Springs. On August 14, 1868, a skirmish between Union soldiers and Hopkins County "troublemakers" left two union officers dead. The union detail marched out four miles from town to investigate reports of a black woman being whipped by a particular group of men named Bickerstaff, Baker, Farrar, and Lee, when they were ambushed by these same men. This, Tuck writes, was the start of an intense and troubling period of guerilla fighting between the two sides.
Source: David Pickering and Judy Falls, Brush Men and Vigilantes: Civil War dissent in Texas. (Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 2000), 1.
https://frontporchnewstexas.com/2022/04/11/history-union-stockade/
Crockett's youngest son, Robert was born in eastern Hopkins County, near Greenwood. So the family was still living in the area as late as 1875, when western Titus County became Franklin County. Records are unclear when Crockett and his family moved to western Hopkins County.
Traces in the Branom Community
It appears that Crockett's son, Joseph Crockett Henry "Dud" Walling, is the only child who married into the Mt. Zion family (Burns family). He married Prudence Burns in 1885.
In 1890, son, Robert was baptized and joined the presbyterian church at a revival in the Mt. Zion church. We can assume the family belonged to the Mt. Zion Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Therefore, it appears that Crockett only lived in the Branom Community a few years.
Death
He was laid to rest on March 3, 1888, in Cumby, Texas, at the age of 53, and was buried in the Mt. Zion Cemetery in western Hopkins County, Texas. His daughter, Mattie, died the same year Crockett did and is buried nearby. His wife, Winnie, died about 2 years later and is buried next to him.
Contributor: DrBill (49036336) •
When Crockett Hubbard Walling was born on March 10, 1834, in White County, Tennessee, his father, Jesse, was 33 and his mother, Nancy, was 29. He was their 6th child born.
His county of birth, White County, was named for John White (1751-1846), a Revolutionary War soldier, surveyor, and frontiersman who was the first known white settler of the area. The County is located in the central area of Tennessee.
Source: https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/White_County,_Tennessee_Genealogy
During the 1840's, Crockett's parents died in White County, Tennessee. After this time, his family began to appear in Texas.
His brother, Smith Jones Walling, died in 1852 and was buried in Rusk County in the Oak Hill Cemetery. Therefore, we know Crockett could have been in Texas as early as 1852 but does not show up on the 1850 Census.
Crockett Walling married Winnifred 'Winnie' Gist on January 17, 1855, in Henderson, Rusk County (now Cherokee County), Texas.
There were other early settlers in Texas from White County, Tennessee, with connections to Rusk County and with the surname of Walling (or Walden). As early as the 1830's, the Walling family started a community on the Sabine River. Walling's Ferry (later renamed Camden, and most recently, Easton), developed around a ferry crossing built by John C. Walling Jr. near his home on the Sabine River.
Source: https://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/rusk/historic.html
Another of note was, WALLING, JESSE (1794–1867), soldier and legislator, was born on June 17, 1794, the son of John and Anna (Chisum) Walling, and the cousin of Elisha Walling. Walling immigrated to Texas in December 1834, residing for one year in San Augustine County before joining his brothers Thomas Jefferson Walling and John Walling in Nacogdoches in 1835. On March 6, 1836, Walling enlisted as a private in Capt. Hayden S. Arnold's First Company in Col. Sidney Sherman's Second Regiment, Texas Volunteers, and took part in the battle of San Jacinto. His son Jonathan C. Walling was also a member of Sam Houston's army but was ill during the battle of San Jacinto and so remained with the baggage wagons at Harrisburg.
Walling represented Nacogdoches County in the Texas legislature. Thereafter Walling lived for a number of years in the Rusk County community of Millville and in 1857 was elected to the US House of Representatives from Rusk County. He died in Millville on August 11, 1867 and was buried in the Walling Bend Cemetery in Bosque County, some six miles from Whitney.
Source: https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/walling-jesse
Residences in Texas
Therefore, the Walling family established a foothold in Texas early on. Because many used similar first names, this made it difficult to trace specific family members. To complicate matters, Crockett's mother's maiden name was also Walling, meaning that both sets of his grandparents were of the Walling clan. Additionally, Crockett's older brother, Daniel, had also married into the Gist family and Crockett married Daniel's wife's sister.
Crockett Walling and his wife, Winnie had 13 children in 21 years. Of that number, only 5 were boys that lived to adulthood.
We can track where the children were born to measure when they began living in Hopkins County. Many of their children were born in the Greenwood community, not to be confused with the Greenwood school once located in the Branom Community.
GREENWOOD, TX (HOPKINS COUNTY).Greenwood is on Farm Road 900 near what is now the Franklin County line six miles south of Saltillo in far eastern Hopkins County. It was established around 1859 and originally known as Penn after the Penn family, prominent local settlers. A store opened there in 1874, and a post office named Penn operated from 1880 until 1906. By 1885 the town had three churches, a school, a steam gristmill and cotton gin, a general store, a blacksmith, a harness maker, and a population of sixty. In 1892 the town had a reported population of 100.
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/greenwood-tx-hopkins-county
Other children are shown being born in nearby neighborhoods in eastern Hopkins County off and around FM 900, such as Saltillo and White Oak, bordering what was then Titus County.
The 1860 Census shows Crockett and his family living in the White Oak area next to Loucinda Gist, his widowed mother-in-law and her family.
The Civil War
When the Civil War began, Crockett enlisted for the Confederacy as a private in Company K, 19th Infantry on December 1, 1861. His brother, Daniel, joined the Texas Cavalry, Company B, at Cypress Church, just south of Mt. Vernon near the Hopkins/Franklin County border. His brother, Elijah, also joined the infantry and his brother, Creed Allen joined the Cavalry. Some Texas preferred the Cavalry, even refusing to serve when attempts were made to transfer them to infantry.
Comparing the numbers of recruits to that of conscripts, it appears that most men preferred to fight with friends and family from the same city or county, so, volunteering for service in a newly formed company was clearly more popular than waiting for conscription officers. While not everyone in Texas enlisted for the same reasons, it would be reasonable to conclude that most of the early enlistees into the Nineteenth Texas Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Nineteenth Texas Infantry) were motivated by a desire to avoid conscription and to protect their communities from Union invasions like those to the north and east.
Source: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc699958/m2/1/high_res_d/thesis.pdf
The 19th Texas Infantry were most involved in fighting to protect Texas in the Red River campaign.
Like others who fought for the confederacy, many died from disease, such as measles, dysentery, and diarrhea while others died from inclement weather, lack of equipment and food.
The 19th Infantry was successful in the overall Red River campaign in that Union forces were repelled from taking Shreveport and therefore from destroying the Trans-Mississippi headquarters and invading Texas. In the seventy days of the campaign, Walker's Texas Division, including the Nineteenth Texas Infantry, marched some 900 miles, fought and contributed substantially to three major battles, suffered heavy losses (1,450 men, or 36 percent of their original 4,000), but ultimately prevented an invasion of their home state.
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/nineteenth-texas-infantry
After the war, Texas confederates returned to their farms to find their homes largely intact. There is no record that Crockett owned slaves; therefore, his farming enterprise would have been less affected. However, having only a few sons left him with plenty of farm work.
The Reconstruction Period: 1865 and following
Crockett's specific service records were not found, but he must have taken leave and visited family during his service, since he fathered children back in Hopkins County during the time of the war. In 1867, he registered to vote and took an oath swearing allegiance to the United States.
These records list the names of more than 139,000 men aged 21 and over who registered to vote in Texas between 1867 and 1869 during the reconstruction period.
Reconstruction was a difficult period of adjustment as some former confederate soldiers did not give up the fight. For example, Ben Bickerstaff led a gang out of the Hopkins County area by hiding out in the local brush thickets, such as Jernigan's Thicket near Commerce, and attacking Federal troops stationed around Sulphur Springs.
Besides Jernigan's Thicket, there were others such as Big Creek Thicket, Black Cat Thicket, Hobbs Thicket, Mustang Thicket, Tidwell Thicket and Wildcat Thicket.
According to Hopkins County historian June Tuck, to quell unrest in Hopkins County, the union sent a regiment of troops on August 10, 1868, three years after the war had ended, to take up residence in Sulphur Springs. On August 14, 1868, a skirmish between Union soldiers and Hopkins County "troublemakers" left two union officers dead. The union detail marched out four miles from town to investigate reports of a black woman being whipped by a particular group of men named Bickerstaff, Baker, Farrar, and Lee, when they were ambushed by these same men. This, Tuck writes, was the start of an intense and troubling period of guerilla fighting between the two sides.
Source: David Pickering and Judy Falls, Brush Men and Vigilantes: Civil War dissent in Texas. (Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 2000), 1.
https://frontporchnewstexas.com/2022/04/11/history-union-stockade/
Crockett's youngest son, Robert was born in eastern Hopkins County, near Greenwood. So the family was still living in the area as late as 1875, when western Titus County became Franklin County. Records are unclear when Crockett and his family moved to western Hopkins County.
Traces in the Branom Community
It appears that Crockett's son, Joseph Crockett Henry "Dud" Walling, is the only child who married into the Mt. Zion family (Burns family). He married Prudence Burns in 1885.
In 1890, son, Robert was baptized and joined the presbyterian church at a revival in the Mt. Zion church. We can assume the family belonged to the Mt. Zion Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Therefore, it appears that Crockett only lived in the Branom Community a few years.
Death
He was laid to rest on March 3, 1888, in Cumby, Texas, at the age of 53, and was buried in the Mt. Zion Cemetery in western Hopkins County, Texas. His daughter, Mattie, died the same year Crockett did and is buried nearby. His wife, Winnie, died about 2 years later and is buried next to him.
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