Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Davy Crockett played by Fess Parker in the Disney movie is a classic ! What is not mentioned in the movie after his first wife died is that he remarried. Who was she ? A local mountain lady, Elizabeth Patton, from the Blue Ridge Mountains in Swannanoa, NC was widowed twice...First husband mortally wounded at Telladega (Alabama) fighting under Andrew Jackson in the Creek Indian war against the Red Sticks in 1823...Her second husband fighting in Texas at the Alamo in 1836 against Santa Anna. Watch and find out what the special connection is between her two husbands !

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