Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-04-30
For Many Years One Of TaZoXeIT'S S
Leading and Most Popular
Citizens.
HIS DEATH is DEEPLY MOUREED.
de Had Been Frequently HonOr,d By His
People and Hundreds Of Friends and
Relatives Attended His Pun,ral and
Burial.

On last Friday afternoon at about two
O'Clock John w. Crockett, one of the
leading and most useful citizens of our
town and county, departed this life.
aged fifty-seven years. He had
been in failing health for more
than year. and for more than week
in ve;S serious condition. But while
his death was a distinct shock to the
community, it was not unexpected.
The immediate cause was heart trouble.
with other complications. Up to a few
days previous to his death he continued
to go about and was on the streets as
late as the Wednesday previous; and
only week before he was in Russell
county on business.
= Mr.. Crockett was born and raised in
Tazewell county, three miles west of
town, and was the youngest son of the
late Captain John Crockett. His mother
was Miss Gillespie and he was related
to many people in the county. More
than thirty years ago he was married
to Miss Grace Hopkins, daughter of
John c. Hopkins, deceased. He is
survived by his wife and two sons,
Robert o. and w. Goggin, and two
daughters, Mrs. R. S. and Mrs. w. ].
Gillespie.
The deceased had for the past thirty
years been prominent in the business
and public affairs of Tazewell county.
He was a man of very fine mental and
business qualities. He had served the
people for twenty-four years as sheriff
and associate sheriff of the county; and
IN 1856 he served them most ac-
ceptably as their representative in the
Virginia House of Delegates. His pop
ularity and fitness for positions of trust
were shown by his triumphant election
when a candidate for Office, though in
each instance he was opposed by strong
and popular men.
For the past six years he had been
president of the Bank of Clinch Valley.
and under his administration the bank
grew in strength and popularity. He
had been for many years actively en-
gagged in the live stock business and had
bought and shipped many thousand
head. For some years he was men,
ber of the firm of Crockett & Moss.
composed of himself and the late
Joseph Moss; and at the time of his
death was associated with S. ]. Thomp-
son in the same business, under the firm
name of Crockett & Thompson. He
was very popular with the graziers of
this county, of Russell and other coun-
ties of the Southwest, many of them
having sold him their stock for years
past.
John W. Crockett was brave, scru-
pulously honest man and a steadfast
friend. His death is public loss, and
is personal loss to the writer, as he
had been one of our truest and best
friends ever since the writer became a
resident of Tazewell. And with his
family, relatives and friends we shall
grieve and miss him.
On Sunday at II a. m. funeral SER
vices were held at the home of the de-
ceased, conducted by the Rev. G. C.
Rector. The house was insufficient to
accommodate the crowd that gathered
there to pay last tribute to the de-
ceased, and hundreds were clustered on
the beautiful grounds that surround the
house. They came from all parts of
the county, from Russell, from Bluefield
and other places. The procession that
followed the remains to the cemetery
was the largest ever seen at Tazewell;
and at least one thousand persons gath
cred about the grave when all that was
mortal of John w. Crockett was placed
therein. The floral offerings were nu-
merous and very beautiful. The piece
sent by the officers and directors of the
Bank of Clinch Valley was very large
and handsome.