An Illustrated History of Central Oregon, Western Historical Publishing Company, Spokane, WA. 1905, pages 312-313. HEZEKIAH C. CROCKETT is one of the prosperous farmers in the Odell district, south of Hood River, where he has a quarter section of land. He was born in Maine, on January 16, 1854, the son of James and Mary S. (Spofford) Crockett, natives of Maine. The father came from an old American family, who were ship owners. He died at Rockland, Maine. The mother's family was very prominent in the seventeenth century in the colonies and also in the Revolutionary war and the War of 1812. They are a very large family and now hold annual reunions. Our subject was raised in Maine and there educated. In the fall of 1875, he came to Oregon and filed on a quarter section, sixteen miles southeast from The Dalles. He bought an-other quarter of railroad land and farmed the same until 1893, when he went to Troutdale and raised hay and did dairying. He had rented his wheat farm in Wasco county and continued at Troutdale for six years, then he came to Hood River and traded a part of his wheat farm for a quarter section he now owns here. He has four acres in fruit and is clearing the balance of the land which is quite fertile and valuable, a portion now being in hay. Mr. Crockett has improved the place and by his own industry and thrift has made it one of the valuable farms of the county. At the bride's residence, in the vicinity of The Dalles, Mr. Crockett married Miss Hattie E. Chapman, a native of Illinois and the daughter of George D. and Mary A. (Roberts) Chapman, now deceased. Mr. Crockett has three brothers, Charles S., John T. and George A., all masons and builders, and three sisters, Mrs. Ada Freeman, Mrs. Ellen S. Johnston and Mrs. Anna M.S. Weeks, deceased. He also has three other sisters, deceased, Frances H., Flora McI., and Lucy S. Mrs. Crockett has three brothers, Arthur M., John and Leroy, and two sisters, Alice Fridley and Gertrude Taylor. Mr. Crockett is a member of the Foresters and is a good stanch Republican. He holds the position of read overseer and school director and has shown himself an enterprising and progressive man. To our subject and his wife, eight children have been born, Claire C., Mable G., Fred P., Ada M., Veva G., Margie Helene, Hildred Marie, and Kenneth M., who is deceased. ******************* Submitted to the Oregon Bios. Project in January 2005 by Jeffrey L. Elmer. Submitter has no additional information about the person(s) or family mentioned above.