DUANE
Duane's take
Well, the marker tells it plain, and it's my job to make sure you hear it right — so here's the story as the record stands. Now, most folks who travel through Hood County are thinkin' about the road ahead, maybe the hill country opening up around them, and they roll right past a piece of history that deserves a moment of stillness. This is the site of the home of Elizabeth Crockett.
Wife of David Crockett — hero of the Alamo. Let that settle over you for a second. The Alamo.
That name carries the full weight of Texas, and Elizabeth carried it too, in her own way, long after the smoke cleared from that story. She lived. She endured.
She made a home right here in Hood County. And on March 2, 1860, at the age of seventy-four, she died here. March 2nd — if you know your Texas calendar, you know that date echoes.
Elizabeth Crockett, seventy-four years old, laid to rest on ground she had made her own. The marker doesn't give us a long story. Sometimes the shortest inscriptions carry the most.
A wife. A home. A date.
And a name that belongs to the permanent memory of Texas.
What the marker says
Wife of David Crockett, hero of the Alamo. She died here March 2,1860. Age 74.