Ingram Crockett Explained

Ingram Crockett
Birth Date:10 February 1856
Birth Place:Henderson, Kentucky, U.S.
Nationality:American
Parents:John W. Henderson
Louisa M. Ingram

Ingram Crockett (February 10, 1856 – October 5, 1936[1]) was an American poet and journalist.

Ingram Crockett was born on February 10, 1856, in Henderson, Kentucky.[2] He is son of John W. Henderson, a member of the Confederate Congress in Kentucky, and Louisa M. Ingram. Educated at public schools in Henderson, Crockett never went to college.[3] On May 17, 1887, he married Mary Cameron Stites (1864–1955)[4] and continued to play a prominent part in the business and public affairs of Henderson.[5] With the exception of A brother of Christ, a novel about Kentucky Christadelphians,[6] Crockett's literary output for magazines and in published collections was poetical. "One does not have to travel far in any direction today in order to find many persons declaring that Ingram Crockett is the finest poet living in the state today".

He and his wife were buried in Fernwood Cemetery, Henderson.

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  1. https://www.angelfire.com/in/tamaraspage/page9.html List of people buried in Fernwood Cemetery, Henderson
  2. Who's Who in America, 1908-9
  3. Townsend, John Wilson, Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912, 2 vols, 1913, II. 77-80.
  4. L. L. Knight, Biographical dictionary of authors, [1910].
  5. [Thomas William Herringshaw|Herringshaw, T. W.]
  6. The Bookman vol. 48, 1918 (Dodd, Mead and Company), p. 402