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The next year, he talked with his friend Benjamin McCulloch about going to Texas to fight in a Texas Revolution against Mexico. In the next few years, he alternated between cattle drives and farm work, followed by a four-year apprenticeship to Elijah Griffith, a hatter.

A 16-year-old Davy returned home for another stint as an indentured servant, to help his father pay off the family debts.

However, that still didn’t stop people from writing books about him. The second indenture was with John Canady, on whose land the Crockett family lived; Davy continued to work for Canady.

In 1806, Crockett married Polly Finley. He started hunting with his brothers before he was nine years old. Written by Himself.

When his teacher told his father, Davy ran away from home to avoid a beating. In 1815, he married another woman named Elizabeth Patton. He lost his re-election to Congress that same year.

Davy Crockett and the Texas Revolution

Around December 1834, Crockett told friends he might move to Texas.

On January 14, 1836, Crockett and 65 other men took an oath (a serious promise) to the Provisional Government of Texas. A copy of the cabin where he was born can be seen today at Davy Crockett Birthplace State Park.

His family name, Crockett, came from a French captain named Monsieur de la Croquetagne.

Not long afterward, Davy married again, to Elizabeth Patton, whose husband had died, leaving two children, George and Margaret Ann. Davy and Elizabeth had three child together, Robert, Rebecca, and Matilda.

Crockett, who learned to fire a gun at age 8 and had early on trained as a woodsman, accompanying his brothers on hunting trips, joined the Tennessee militia in September 1813.

He went to San Antonio, arriving there on February 8. Young Davy ran away from home and joined a cattle drive to Virginia. Unfortunately, the flatboats on which Crockett he was delivering his timber harvest capsized in the Mississippi, and he nearly drowned.

7) When he was first elected to Congress, Crockett was an ally of Andrew Jackson.

But Crockett broke with Jackson, and was the only Tennessee Congressman who voted against the Indian Removal Act in 1830.

On February 23, a Mexican army, led by General Antonio López de Santa Anna, surrounded the Alamo. The family moved several times as Davy was growing up, ending up living on property owned by John Canady. He traveled a lot and had many adventures. Then, he decided to run for Congress in 1824 but lost the election. In the 1950s, there was a popular television show about him.