Greenbury F.H. Crockett was the son of Joseph Venables Crockett of Sussex, Delaware. Green served in the War of 1812 as a Lieutenant in the 32nd Infantry. In 1822 he graduated in medicine from the University of Transylvania. His thesis was on asthma. He wrote religious essays and addressed the Kentucky Legislature against capital punishment. He lived in Scott County, then Woodford County, settling in Lexington. He married Frances Glover Taylor in Mercer County, Kentucky in 1833. In the 1850s he was in North Carolina as a lay preacher. Crockett was affiliated with the Phoenix Lodge 8 in 1856. He and Frances were divorced. In 1861 he remarried, to Elizabeth Hough. In 1862 through 1864 he was acting assistant surgeon in the Confederate Army. In 1863 he is listed as Chaplain of the Rockingham Union Lodge 27.
Greenbury F.H. Crockett was the son of Joseph Venables Crockett of Sussex, Delaware. Green served in the War of 1812 as a Lieutenant in the 32nd Infantry. In 1822 he graduated in medicine from the University of Transylvania. His thesis was on asthma. He wrote religious essays and addressed the Kentucky Legislature against capital punishment. He lived in Scott County, then Woodford County, settling in Lexington. He married Frances Glover Taylor in Mercer County, Kentucky in 1833. In the 1850s he was in North Carolina as a lay preacher. Crockett was affiliated with the Phoenix Lodge 8 in 1856. He and Frances were divorced. In 1861 he remarried, to Elizabeth Hough. In 1862 through 1864 he was acting assistant surgeon in the Confederate Army. In 1863 he is listed as Chaplain of the Rockingham Union Lodge 27.
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