Matilda Patton Fields

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Birth: Aug. 2, 1821 Death: Jul. 6, 1890

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Parents:

 David Stern Crockett (1786 - 1836)

 Elizabeth Patton Crockett (1788 - 1860)

Spouses:

James Wilson (unknown dates) 

Thomas D. Tyson (circa 1820 - circa 1850)

Redden Fields (1796 - 1873)*

Siblings:

 John Wesley Crockett (1807 - 1852)**

 William Finley Crockett (1809 - 1846)**

 Margaret Finley Crockett Flowers (1812 - 1860)**

 Robert Patton Crockett (1816 - 1889)*

 Elizabeth Jane Crockett Whitehurst (1818 - 1895)*

 Rebecca E Crockett Halford (1818 - 1879)*

 Matilda Crockett Fields (1821 - 1890)

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• *Half-sibling

Inscription: Daughter of David & Elizabeth Patton Crockett

Burial: North Union Cemetery Rutherford Gibson County Tennessee, USA

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Age: 68

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MH:S500214 Haynie Web Site Peggy MILLIRONS Haynie <p>MyHeritage family tree</p><p>Family site: Haynie Web Site</p>Family tree: 375963-1

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Matilda Fields (born Crockett) 19 NOV 2017 Added via a Smart Match

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https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-40001-1112318129/matilda... 24 FEB 2018 Matilda CrockettBirth names: MalindaMalinda Matilda CrockettMaltida CrockettMathilda (Wilson) CrockettMatilda CroeketGender: FemaleBirth: Aug 2 1821 - Lawrence, Tennessee, United StatesChristening: Lincoln, TennesseeMarriage: Circa 1837 - Of TennesseeMarriage: From 1840Marriage: Circa 1850 - Tennessee, United StatesDeath: July 6 1890 - Gibson, Tennessee, United StatesBurial: 1890 - Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States of AmericaSpouses: <a>Thomas D Tyson</a>, <a>Redden Fields</a>Children: <a>Charles Wilson</a>, <a>Robert Wilson</a>, <a>Sarah Matilda "Sallie" Wilson</a>, <a>Benjamin Bruce Tyson</a>, <a>Candas Queen Edmundson (born Tyson)</a>, <a>David Tyson</a>, <a>Mary Elizabeth Floyd (born Tyson)</a>, <a>Claudia Tyson</a>

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https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-40001-1125167389/matilda... Matilda CrockettGender: FemaleBirth: Aug 2 1821 - TNDeath: July 6 1890

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WORDS OF MATILDA CROCKETT FIELDS, DAUGHTER OF ELIZABETH AND DAVID CROCKETT, TELLING WHY DAVID CROCKETT LEFT TENNESSEE TO GO TO TEXAS.
Matilda Crockett Fields, daughter of Elizabeth Patton and David Crockett, was born in 1821 in Lawrence County, Tennessee, and lived in 1835, when David Crockett left Tennessee to go to Texas, at her parent's home in Weakley County, Tennessee. Matilda lived in West Tennesse until her death in 1890.
To a newspaper in 1882 she told this:
"I remember the day my father came home after his last race (to Congress in 1835). He came in and said to mother, "Well, Bet, I am beat and I'm off for Texas." I don't think father cared much for his defeat, he wanted to go to Texas anyhow. He wanted to move right away, but mother persuaded him to go first and look at the country and then if he liked it we would all go. He seemed very confident the morning he went away that he would soon have us all to join him in Texas. We did not know that he was going into the army until he wrote mother a letter after he got to Texas. We were all greatly distressed when we heard that he had been killed; we could hardly believe it."
I think these words prove, that David Crockett first of all went to Texas to find new land to settle for his family, and they also explain why he spent more than 5 weeks in North Texas exploring the country where he planned to settle. That he later enrolled his name in the Texas army to get those necessary acres to settle is another part of the history.