John Lafayette Croom

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John L. Croom.

One of the oldest living former residents of Greens- boro is Mr. John L. Croom, who has kindly furnished the author valuable information for this volume. He was born at LaGrange, Ala., Nov. 26, 1826, and came with his father, Wiley J. Croom, to Greensboro in 1834, and resided here until 1850, when he moved to Mata- gorda, Texas, and for the past fifty-eight years has been a resident of Matagorda and Wharton counties. He served for ten years as County and District Clerk of Matagorda, and since the expiration of his term of office he has been engaged in the real estate business. He was orderly sergeant in Company A — Andrew L. Pickens, Captain, John R. Coffee, Colonel — First Regiment Ala- bama Volunteers in the Mexican War, and was honorably discharged from service, on account of disability to perform military duty, in July, 1846. In November of the same year he married Miss Ellen R. Davis, at Mata- gordo, Texas, a lady who was born and reared at Frank- lin, Tenn. She died in Wharton, Texas, in October, 1901. There were two children from this union, Judge W. J. Croom, and Mrs. Rosa F. McCamly, widow of the late Fred C. McCamly, a prominent lawyer of Texas. Mr. Croom is a brother of Mrs. Eliza A. Tunstall of Greens- boro, and an uncle of Col. Wiley C. Tunstall of this place. He is spending the evening of his life happily with his children, grand children and great grand chil- dren in Wharton, Texas.

--History of Greensboro, Alabama From its Earliest Settlement, by William Edward Wadsworth Yerby, 1908