Crockett Virtual Reunion/ personal history board

My name is Jesse Lee Crockett. I am the son of George Lamoine Crockett and Clara Lavina Crockett. I was born June 28th, 1973 in Greeley, Colorado. I am the youngest of 9 children. I have always joked that God was saving the best for last in my family. I have tried to prove Him right but over the years, I have come to realize that everyone is my superior in someway. So now I only joke that God saves the best for last. Growing up with a surname like Crockett does illicit comments and also deceives a young youth. If I had a nickel for every time I have heard someone asks if I was related to "the" Davy Crockett from the Alamo; I would never have to work again. I was originally told by my father yes. I was related to David Crockett. In celebration of this fact I took pride in our coon skin cap that had a bullet size hole in it and took it to 2nd grade for show and tell. After show and tell our teacher left the classroom for a minute and I got up from my desk to sharpen my pencil. What happen next is humorous and violent. Cory, a kid about my size, had decided to take the coon tailed hat and run off with it. I chased him around the classroom and he put the hat in his lift top desk and sat down. With emotions high and my mind thinking this was the original Davy Crockett hat that had been looted from my family heirlooms. I reached his desk, pulled him up off the top of the desk grabbed the hat and proceed to slam Cory's face into his desk. Im sure he was amazed at the sheer passion and crime of it all but I had recovered the family heirloom. We ended up being friends oddly enough. Later I came to realize the really truth that this hat was not the real Davy Crockett hat and that I was related to Davy Crockett likely through Noah, the same as everyone else. But knowing who my family wasn't and was made me seek to either see how I was connected or see who my real family was.

I was named Jesse after my mothers father Jesse Jerome Foutz and I was named Lee after my fathers good friend, hunting buddy and cousin, Lee Ream from Dingle, Idaho. Being named after these two great men and with a parentage and ancestry as mine I took great pride in my name. I wanted to know what my name meant and who my parentage was. I was offended as a child as my siblings would tease me that I was adopted. I may have prodded them on for the attention that I would receive from my drama but it was a comfort that I have a sister Claralyn that would comfort me in knowing we had similar facial features. Also my mother would show me my birth mark that is similar to my father even the prominent small pin hole size mark on the ear.
I have always had a fascination with my ancestry. I knew their names but always wanted to know them as the people and family they were.
I believe I could write volumes on what I have discovered and am amazed at the many lives and examples of my family that came before me. I still to this day often think what my relatives will think of me when I have passed on from this life. Will they admire me in any way? Do they look at me as a coward or less hearty for the things I didn't have to go through in this life? Are my actions pleasing to them? Am I passing on the Legacy that should never end even that of Faith and Love to those around me? To say that I feel them around me to this day would be an understatement. I know they are around me. I hope to know each of them more intimately one day.

One other thought on my name Jesse
On my first day of seminary I discovered meaning of the name Jesse which is"God Exist" and "God's Gift". I questioned if my parents knew that is what the name meant. My father thought it was a derivative of "God is…" but didn't know off hand the full meaning. I have thought long and hard about this and have determined I was given with this name because of my potential. I hope others will someday view my actions and faith as "Gods gift" and come to realize that "God does exist" because of they way I lived my life toward others. The words of Mosiah 2:16 Behold, I say unto you that because I said unto you that I had spent my days in your service, I do not desire to boast, for I have only been in the service of God.

17 And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learnwisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the serviceof your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God. That is my desire to some how spend my life in the service of my God and in the service of you!

A few things you should know about me is I enjoy reading yet I enjoy interaction especially with my family members. I enjoy good clean jokes and puns in conversation likely from my family's culture. I enjoy family dinners. I feel we have lost something in society in the fast food and protein shake as we grab in a hurry. We have traded our social interactions for efficiency. I have been guilty of this but it doesn't change the fact of the ideal that we should strive for.