{"id":90022,"date":"2020-08-17T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/?p=90022"},"modified":"2020-08-17T09:33:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T16:33:19","slug":"profile-of-the-day-davy-crockett-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/profile-of-the-day-davy-crockett-2-90022.html","title":{"rendered":"Profile of the Day: Davy Crockett"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Are you related to American folk hero <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Davy-Crockett\/6000000000830193013\" target=\"_blank\">Davy Crockett<\/a>? On this day in 1786, the famous frontiersman was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/dcrockett-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-106463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/dcrockett-2.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/dcrockett-2-300x175.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:10px\" class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Image: Davy Crockett \/ Library of Congress<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crockett was born on August 17, 1786 to John M. Crockett and Rebecca Sullivan Crockett. He learned to shoot at the age of 8 and gained a reputation for hunting and story telling.\u00a0In 1826, he was elected to Congress and served two terms before leaving politics to join the Texas Revolution. He was killed at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/projects\/The-Alamo\/11442\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Battle of the Alamo (opens in a new tab)\">Battle of the Alamo<\/a> on March 6, 1836.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He became famous during his lifetime for his larger-than-life exploits which were popularized by stage plays and almanacs.\u00a0His folk hero status continued to grow after his death through many film and television adaptations of his life on the frontier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explore Davy Crockett&#8217;s family tree and share how you&#8217;re related to the &#8220;King of the Wild Frontier.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Davy-Crockett\/6000000000830193013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">View Davy Crockett&#8217;s Geni Profile<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> iframe{ border: 1px solid #999; } <\/style>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/family-tree\/index\/profile-25668876?minimal=1\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you related to American folk hero Davy Crockett? On this day in 1786, the famous frontiersman was born. Image: Davy Crockett \/ Library of Congress Crockett was born on August 17, 1786 to John M. Crockett and Rebecca Sullivan Crockett. He learned to shoot at the age of 8 and gained a reputation for hunting and story telling.\u00a0In 1826, he was elected to Congress and served two terms before leaving politics to join the&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/profile-of-the-day-davy-crockett-2-90022.html\"><span>Read the full story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":106463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[5406,5439],"class_list":["post-90022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-profile-of-the-day","tag-davy-crockett","tag-frontiersman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90022"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106464,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90022\/revisions\/106464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}