Johnie Willis Crocker

Notes:

Larry Crocker writes that : "Texas Death Records indicate that my Grandfather died in Nacogdoches County, Texas while the SSDI records indicate that his last benefit was payed in Houston, Harris County, Texas. He had lived with his son Harold in Houston until he went to live in a nursing home in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. Texas Death Records and his tombstone spell his name Johnnie while SSDI records spell it Johnie which is correct. His Application for his Social Secutity has his name shown as Johnny Willis Crocker, however, he signed the application Johnie Crocker. The application is dated December 7, 1936 and shows his father as John Crocker and mother as Belle Warner. It gives his place of employment as Temple Lumber Company in Pineland Texas and shows that he was born on November 1, 1902 in Bronson, Sabine County, Texas. His death certificate from the State of Texas spells his name as Johnnie, in addition, the death certificate on his father, Mack, was signed by him as the informant and spells his name as Johnnie and that is the way he signed it. Johnie is shown as a boarder living with his father in the 1930 Sabine County, Texas Census and is shown as being age 26 and married at 19. The marital status box is scratched out, as is the age married box, however, you can still read the age married box but not the marital status box. In 1930 he was probably already divorced."

In her annotated transcription of the Martin Cemetery, Kay Parker McCary shows his parents as John M. "Mack" Crocker and Isabelle "Belle" AdeliaWarner.

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Census Listings:

Johnie was not present, likely already divorced. His wife and four children, however, are listed below.
1930 Newton County, Texas Census
HH 55-55; Page 36B, Sheet 3B; Precinct 2
Name Relation Home Radio Farm Sex age age School R/W Self Father Mother
Clark, Jim A Head R Y M 47 20 N Y TX TX TX
Clark, Edna F Wife F 50 23 N Y TX TX TX
Crocker, Fronia E Dau F 26 17 N Y TX TX TX
Clark, Alif M Dau F 14 Y Y TX TX TX
Crocker, Edna E Gdau F 7 Y TX TX TX
Crocker, Johnie Jr Gson M 6 Y TX TX TX
Crocker, Eugene Gson M 4 9/12 N TX TX TX
Crocker, Frances B Gdau F 2 11/12 N TX TX TX

Johnie married Sophronia "Phronia" Elizabeth Clark on 21 Dec 1921 in Sabine County, Texas. Sophronia (daughter of James Anderson Clark and Francis Edna Ener) was born on 21 Mar 1904 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 27 Mar 1975 in Jasper County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Sabine County, Texas Marriage Records Volume D Page 203

1. Living
2. Johnie Crocker, Jr. was born on 24 Nov 1923 in Wharton County, Texas; died on 23 Apr 2006 in Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas.
3. Living
4. Living

Johnie married Lillie Mae ??? after 1930. Lillie was born on 5 Sep 1914; died on 24 May 1986; was buried in Martin Cemetery (Martin's Chapel Cemetery), Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]