The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-11-12
A CHEoKERED CAREER.
Yhe Adventures of an Alleged Nephew
of Davy Crockett.

YIie Adventures of an Alleged Nephew
of Davy Crockett.
GALVESTON, Nov. 2,-There passed
through this place yesterday small,
grey-haired gentleman, totally blind,
and accompanied by 8 youth of IA
years, vino, although not presenting
tho appearances of ths traditional "man
With history," certainly has one, if
what the Globa-D Democrat correspond
ent CLEANED concerning him is correct,
and there is some reagon to believe
1t IL.
DAvY CRoCKETT's NEPHEW.
Tho blind man ssid his name was q.
G. Crockett, that he was nephew OF
tho heroic TenDesseean who fell at the
storming OF the Alamo, and that his
father had been alaiu at the battle of
San Jacinto, although the returns Of tho
killed and w0uudedin inst engage
nent G0ea moi baar out the correctness
of the latter assertion. CTocketb ste.,-,
that no was born in the cred Lands"
Of Eastern Texas in 1888, and after tho
death OF his father, Was adopted by an
old man named WiliaGl p. Tsylor,wh0
was engaged in farming near the old
Spanish settlement uf Nacagdoches.
LII lCtO ITO ttIQh dtl Va dAbf SuI-
ming away from home, cached Shreve-
port, on Eei rivgr, whsre he disposed
OF tho oxen and wagon and took a
steamboat for New Orleans, teen The
Meccs of shs Southwest. The Calitor-
mia lever breaking out, no pi oceeded 10
San Ffancisco by way of the Isthmus
uf Panama. Upon arriving he was
completely "busted," and but for fiud-
ing friends from Texas IN Colonel Jack
Hay S, the famous Indian tighter and
ranger, and Captain "Epb." McL0an,
OF Galveston, would have fired badly.
INTHE MINIS,
Upon being 'staked" by his new
found friends, the wauderer started 10
try his fortune in the mines OF North
arn California. Whsn he arrived there
he had but SIS left and found every
thing ssllipgat 81 pound. Buyine
ten pounds of flour and five pounds ot
bacon, be found an old prOspector WITH
no provisions but plenty OF picks and
shovels, aud immediately went in
with him. The first wesk's work net
ted them 1000, and they were enabled
to purchase everything uaaded in the
business. The claim proved rich, and
alter tsking 81 800 from it they spld out
for $4,000. His "pardanat" going
homo 10 Missouri, Crocsat lett for
the mines in Southern California, and
"atyuck 1t rich" at ihe mining camp OF
Humbug, on tho american river,
amassing fortune o. 100000 within "
few months; but enbatking in an
enterprise to conduct water from
the river TO To "Yankse
Bob mine, a distance of ~
miles, he becams, 10 use his
own words" financially busted" Ar
ter this he engaged in quartz mining,
but met with 80 great success. the
war coming on, he was filed with
patriotism, ana sped across the plains
10 Texas ID company with General
Albert Sidney johnson, Colonel Terry,
and others. Tor the purpsse OF entennx
tho Confederate army, which he did,
serving In dragged Pan Clehurne's d.
vision uuti; the close OF tho war, and
oeing one Uf tho few survivors OF the
faLal fisld OF Franklin, Tennessee,
where his commander and the flower
OF his division foil. Upon the cessa-
5atf0D OF h0stiiiti0s Crockett returned
to she Pacific slope and seeurs5 afu-
pibyraenk With tho Suffer crsSk Miu
ing siid MiDing company IS ssgAyer
sni assistant Aupsrinteadent. TIER
he again amsssad snug sum Of
money, bat, puconing seized Wish .
great daaire 10 travel and eco is0yo III
the earth, no resigned hig position 10
1875 sud started "a q lqag nip
1ARoUNp TEH WORD.
z tn Noverabrr OF tles S,e4r sis1c.xe't Il
Left SaD Ffpnc.sco Or Msssv 4 6rz End
rom There took at9aioq is,ra ! yexl,pQls
HI Remained IN tae Uni sd kktnt.loa a
Tor sqYarsl moot hs, Whiting a'isiiy
points % Historic q 1pfe rsss e;ia fne'