Yep, he sure was Davy's grandson but if grandpa had been around he would have tanned his britches. David Crockett, named after his grandfather, was also born in Tennessee but, I don’t know if it was on a mountaintop but he might have killed a bear when he was only three. Born in 1853, he spent most of his life in Texas where his father operated a toll bridge on the Brazos River. A strapping, bully of
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