Jess and Esther Crocker

Jess Crocker, 1898 -
Esther Anna Winter, 1908

I was born June 27, 1908, in Alma, Missouri, and baptized there. I was one of nine children - four daughters and five sons - of William and Elizabeth Anna (Bartgrede) Winter. My folks migrated to Kansas because of my mother's health as a young person. I was confirmed at St. John's Lutheran Church in Nashville, KS, on April 30, 1922, by F.J. Duecker, the pastor at that time.
I was married to Jess Crocker on December 24, 1942, in the parsonage of the St. John's Lutheran Church at Nashville, Kansas, by Pastor Mueller. Jess Crocker was born December 24, 1898, at Maize, KS, and had a son, Robert Harold Crocker, born February 3, 1924 at Hazelton, KS. Jess and his son Robert were confirmed August 6, 1984, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Medicine Lodge, KS, by the Rev. Velmer H. Goebel. We lived for four years in Attica, KS, then moved to Zenda, KS, where we farmed for four years, then to the Plum Thicket Farm in Sharon, KS, where we managed a wildlife retreat for Floyd Amsden from Wichita, KS, until moving to Medicine Lodge, KS, about 1981.

Source: St. John's Lutheran Church Centennial, Nashville, KS. 1883 - 1983, pg. 27.
Submitted by: Alvin Winter

---