STEUBEN REPUBLICAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1904, page 1, columns 5, 6

OLIVER ASA CROCKETT, 04 Mar 1818  - 15 Mar 1904

   Oliver Asa Crockett was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, March 4, 1818, 
and died in Angola, Ind., March 15, 1904; aged 86 years and 11 days.
   He was the eldest child of Asa and Myriam Crockett to whom twelve 
children were born.  When he was five years old his parents moved to 
Seneca county, Ohio.  The primeval forest was as yet scarcely disturbed 
and the Indians roamed at will over the wide domain.  His childhood and 
youth were passed under circumstances common to the first settlers in this 
great and growing West.  On May 11, 1842, he was united in marriage to 
Laura M. Scovel.  To this marriage nine children were born, four of whom 
still survive:  Mrs. Zella Sowle, Mrs. Cora Willis, Mrs. Eva Barnes and 
Mrs. Nellie Freygang.  In June, 1859, Mr. Crockett moved to Steuben 
county, Ind., settling on a farm one and one-half miles west of Angola.  
In 1867 his first wife died leaving a family of small children.  In 1868 
he married Juliette Jeffords, who through all the years has made a home 
for him and a welcome place for the surviving children.  In 1872 Mr. 
Crockett moved to Angola and engaged in business.  At the age of seventy 
he retired and since that time has enjoyed the loving companionship of his 
wife and children.  On the 13th of January, 1901, he united with the 
Congregational church.  He was initiated in Angola Lodge No. 236 F. & 
A.M., Aug. 21, 1865, and raised to sublime degree of a Master Mason, Oct. 
23, 1865.
   A summary or his life would be, the boy of the wilderness wood, the 
youth of the pioneer struggle, the farmer of the wrought-out civilization, 
the business man of the entangled and entangling life, the citizen honored 
for twenty one years by successive election to public office, the man 
through it all, struggling toward the solution of this strange existence, 
and finding it at last in Him who loved and served and suffered that we 
might have life and have it more abundantly.
   He leaves to mourn their loss his wife, four daughters, two brothers, 
two sisters, four grandchildren and one great grandchild. 
   Funeral services were held in the Congregational church, Angola, 
Thursday afternoon, conducted by the Masonic Lodge, L. W. Fairfield, 
minister, officiating.  Burial in Circle Hill.  
(Picture included with obituary)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

   Oliver Asa Crockett, 04 Mar 1818 - 15 Mar 1904, married 1st, Laura M. 
Scoville/Scovel, 1825 - 1867, daughter of David and Sally (Sutherland) 
Scoville.  Oliver and Laura are buried at Circle Hill Cemetery, Angola, 
Steuben County, Indiana.

CHILDREN:

   Freddie Crockett, buried at Circle Hill Cemetery.
   Lazella (Crockett) Sowle, 1845 - 1930, on 23 Nov 1862, married Leander 
M. Sowle, 03 Sep 1838 - 06 Aug 1909.  They are buried at Circle Hill 
Cemetery.
   Cora (Crockett) Willis, on 01 Mar 1882, married Jesse A. Willis, burial 
place unknown.

   On 02 Jun 1868, Oliver married 2nd, Juliette (Jefford) Twichell 
Crockett.  

"Cemeteries of Steuben County, Indiana, 1990," by Audree Seibel Lewis, 
Vol. 1, Page 440; Vol. 2 page 1717.
Submitted by:  Mona Hilden-Beckwith
e-mail:  hilbeck123@att.net