Editing Crockett County, Tennessee (section)

==History==
Crockett County was formed in 1871 from portions of Haywood, Madison, Dyer and Gibson counties. It is named in honor of [[David Crockett]], frontier humorist, soldier, Tennessee state legislator and U.S. congressman, and [[Battle of the Alamo|defender of the Alamo]].<ref name=tehc /><ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n95 96]}}</ref>

In 1876, in what apparently was a political rivalry gone bad,<ref>[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/data/batches/tu_chet_ver01/data/sn83045160/00200293149/1876081501/0145.pdf Bloody Conflict, ''Memphis Daily Appeal'', August 15, 1876]</ref> Crockett County Sheriff R. G. Harris and 19 other unidentified men removed four men from the county jail and beat them, killing one of them. The sheriff was arrested.<ref>[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/data/batches/tu_brownie_ver01/data/sn85033673/00280779441/1876082301/0798.pdf Crockett County Troubles, ''Public Ledger'', August 23, 1876, 3]</ref>  In ''[[United States v. Harris]]'' (1883), the Supreme Court ruled that the Sheriff could not be prosecuted under federal law.<ref>[http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=CASE&court=US&vol=106&page=629 ''U.S. v. HARRIS'', 106 U.S. 629 (1883)], Findlaw.com. Retrieved: June 25, 2013.</ref>