Afton in Greene County, Tennessee — The American South (East South Central)
The Crocketts' Home
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John Crockett: Frontier Doctor
1792-1794
Photographed by Mark Parker, March 19, 2024
1. The Crocketts' Home Marker
This marker is on the south-east corner of a 197-acre tract of a 1780 claim by John Crockett. The Crockett family lived here circa 1792-1794 after they left David's birthplace on the Nolichucky River where Fort Lee offered protection from raids led by Dragging Canoe during the 1770s and 80s. Late in 1794 the Crocketts moved 16 miles to the mouth of Cove Creek where John's newly constructed mill was washed out in a flood immediately after it was completed. This disaster was a blow from which John Crockett never recovered.
John Crockett: Frontier Doctor
John Crockett's family lived near this spot in the 1790s. Out hunting, Joseph Hawkins, David's uncle, accidentally shot a neighbor, Absalom Stonecipher. The injured man shot through the torso, was taken to the home of Samuel Humberd a mile away. John Crockett treated the man by passing a silk handkerchief through the wound with a ramrod. Stonecipher recovered and in 1796 married his nurse, Humberd's daughter, Sarah. They had ten children. Absalom was alive in 1834 when Crockett wrote about the incident.
Erected by Tennessee Historical Commission. (Marker Number 1C 96.)
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Location. 36° 15.545′ N, 82° 45.46′ W. Marker is in Afton, Tennessee, in Greene County. It is on Kingsport Highway (Tennessee Route 93) near Walkertown Road, on the left when traveling north. Location is next to south entrance of Walkertown Bible Fellowship. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 6900 Kingsport Hwy, Afton TN 37616, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in East Tennessee. It is also in the American South, specifically in the Upper South, in Appalachia, and specifically in Southern Appalachia. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the original Cherokee Nation, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, one of the Confederate States of America, the State of Franklin, and the Antebellum South.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 6 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Historic Roaring Spring (approx. 2.7 miles away); Edward Chalmers Huffaker (approx. 4.9 miles away); Hendersons Station (approx. 5.1 miles away); The Old Brick Church (approx. 5.3 miles away); Andrew Johnson National Historic Site (approx. 5.8 miles away); First Institution of Higher Learning West of the Allegheny Mountains (approx. 5.8 miles away); John Gloucester (approx. 5.8 miles away); Tusculum College (approx. 5.8 miles away).
Another marker is no longer nearby. Ebenezer (was approx. 4.9 miles away but has been replaced with another marker now near it).
Photographed by Mark Parker, March 19, 2024
2. The Crocketts' Home / John Crockett: Frontier Doctor Marker
Photographed by Mark Parker, March 19, 2024
3. Wide view of The Crocketts' Home side of the Marker
Walkertown Bible Fellowship is in the background
Photographed by Mark Parker, March 19, 2024
4. Wide view John Crockett: Frontier Doctor side of the Marker
Looking south along Kingsport Highway (Tennessee Hwy 93)
Credits. This page was last revised on August 8, 2024. It was originally submitted on August 7, 2024, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. This page has been viewed 572 times since then and 71 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on August 7, 2024, by Mark Parker of Hickory, North Carolina. • James Hulse was the editor who published this page.
