Ingram Crockett (February 10, 1856 – October 5, 1936List of people buried in Fernwood Cemetery, Henderson) was an American poet and journalist.
Ingram Crockett was born on February 10, 1856, in Henderson, Kentucky.Who's Who in America, 1908-9 He is son of John W. Henderson, a member of the Confederate Congress in Kentucky, and Louisa M. Ingram. Educated at public schools in Henderson, Crockett never went to college.Townsend, John Wilson, Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912, 2 vols, 1913, II. 77-80. On May 17, 1887, he married Mary Cameron Stites (1864–1955)L. L. Knight, Biographical dictionary of authors, . and continued to play a prominent part in the business and public affairs of Henderson.Herringshaw, T. W., Herringshaw's national library of American biography, 5 vols, 1909-14. With the exception of A brother of Christ, a novel about Kentucky Christadelphians,The Bookman vol. 48, 1918 (Dodd, Mead and Company), p. 402 Crockett's literary output for magazines and in published collections was poetical. "One does not have to travel far in any direction today in order to find many persons declaring that Ingram Crockett is the finest poet living in the state today".
He and his wife were buried in Fernwood Cemetery, Henderson.
Works (ed. with Charles J, O'Malley), Ye Wassail Bowie, 1888 The port of pleasant dreams, 1892 Rhoda, an Easter Idyll Beneath Blue Skies and Gray, 1900 A Year Book of Kentucky Woods and Fields, 1901. A brother of Christ: a tale of western Kentucky, 1905 The Magic of the Woods and other poems, 1908 The greeting and goodbye of the birds, 1912 Betchworth and some other lyrics, 1928
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