William Tolliver Craig b. 19 Oct 1810 , , Kentucky, USA d. 20 Oct 1863 : Albemarle to Callaway, a Herring Family Journey

1810 - 1863

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Birth 19 Oct 1810 , , Kentucky, USA

Gender Male

Died 20 Oct 1863

Buried Richland Baptist Cemetery, , Callaway, Missouri, USA

Person ID I5367 Herring Family of Callaway County, Missouri

Last Modified 01 Aug 2008

Father Nathaniel Craig, b. 23 Mar 1780, , Spotsylvania, Virginia, USA , d. 26 Apr 1833, , Scott, Kentucky, USA

Mother Mary Elley, b. 2 Aug 1788, , , Virginia, USA , d. 24 Jun 1833, , , Kentucky, USA

Family ID F14347733 Group Sheet

Family Sidney Mallory Smith, b. 20 Dec 1819, , , Virginia, USA , d. 3 Mar 1892

Married 12 Dec 1838 , Callaway, Missouri, USA

Children

>	1. Polly Ann Craig, b. 26 Jan 1840, , Callaway, Missouri, USA , d. 16 May 1934, Auxvasse, Callaway, Missouri, USA
	2. Nathaniel Craig, b. Abt 1841, , Callaway, Missouri, USA , d. Abt 1864
	3. Dulcena Craig, b. 31 Dec 1842, , Callaway, Missouri, USA , d. 12 Sep 1843, , Callaway, Missouri, USA
	4. Lucy E. Craig, b. Abt 1843, , Callaway, Missouri, USA , d. 2 Nov 1845
	5. Agnes Craig, b. 19 Oct 1845, , Callaway, Missouri, USA , d. 30 May 1915, Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA
	6. William H. Craig, b. 14 Jan 1849, , Callaway, Missouri, USA , d. 9 Jul 1901
	7. Permelia Bailey Craig, b. 20 Jul 1851, , Callaway, Missouri, USA , d. 23 Dec 1936, Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA
	8. George Elley Craig, b. 10 Feb 1854, , Callaway, Missouri, USA , d. 27 Sep 1938, Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA
	9. Belle Craig, b. Abt 1856, , Callaway, Missouri, USA , d. Yes, date unknown
	10. Inez Virginia Craig, b. 8 Apr 1859, , Callaway, Missouri, USA , d. 15 Dec 1881, , Callaway, Missouri, USA
>	11. Robert Stephen Craig, b. 21 Mar 1864, Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA , d. 10 Jan 1959, Fulton, Callaway, Missouri, USA

Last Modified 28 May 2006

Family ID F1653 Group Sheet

Headstones		William Tolliver Craig William T. Craig, born Oct. 19, 1810, died Oct. 20, 1863. William Tolliver Craig, born in Kentucky, married Sidney Mallory Smith on Dec. 12, 1838 in Callaway Co., Missouri.…

Notes	Craig, William - Smith, Sidney - Dec 12 1838 1870; Census Place: Fulton, Callaway, Missouri; Roll: M593_764; Page: 344; Image: 242. Name: William T Craig Estimated Birth Year: abt 1811 Age in 1870: 59 Birthplace: Kentucky Home in 1870: Fulton, Callaway, Missouri Race: White Gender: Male Value of real estate: $10,000 $3,000 Post Office: Fulton Household Members: Name Age William T Craig 59 Sydney Craig 49 Amelia Craig 18 George Craig 16 Bell Craig 14 Ines Craig 12 Robert S Craig 8 Phunas Smith 18 labor on farm Keiser Miller 22 labor on farm Christopher Catlett 20 labor on farm Ann Moss 30 domestic servant John Moss 3 Moss 6/12 From the History of Callaway County Missouri, 1884, page 748 W. T. CRAIG, (DECEASED.) This venerable old citizen, born in Scott county, Kentucky, on the 19th of October, 1811, after a residence of over forty-three years in Callaway county, died at his home near Fulton on the 20th of October, 1883. The Craigs came originally from Virginia, but the branch of the family to which the subject of the present memoir belonged had long been settled in Kentucky. In Virginia, as indeed in Kentucky and wherever they have settled, they have ever been esteemed among the better class of people of their respective communities. W. T. Craig's father was a well-to-do farmer in Scott county, Kentucky, and to that occupation the son was brought up. In youth he received a fair common school education, so that when he reached manhood, being blessed with a good physical constitution and having been brought up to habits of industry and to temperance in everything, he was well fitted to begin life for himself with every promise of a prosperous, useful future. Farming naturally became his permanent calling, an industry of which he became a successful and worthy representative.While still a young man and unmarried, he concluded to cast his fortunes with the Missouri river country in this State, believing that here, where land was much more fertile and incomparably cheaper, he would have better opportunities to establish himself comfortably in life. He arrived in Callaway county in 1837, and made this his home until his death. Here he bought land and engaged in farming. In 1839, Mr. Craig was married to Miss Sidney Smith, a daughter of Tartan Smith, of this county. Mrs. Craig's family of the same gens Smith of which Sir Sidney Smith (for whom she was named), the great naval commander of Europe (for though an English admiral and nobleman, his great activity and taste for naval life led him into the service of different countries when his native land was not engaged in war), was a distinguished representative. Another writer says of this great man who won his title of nobility by his valor and merits: "A more chivalric character than Sir Sidney Smith is not to be found among the heroes of modern times." Mr. and Mrs. Craig had a family of ten children, of whom there are seven living, viz.: Mrs. John Swon, Mrs. Joseph Wallace, Mrs. J. Samuel Watson, Miss Permelia, William H., George E. and Dock. Mr. Craig became a substantial farmer of this county, and his name was without reproach from the morning until the evening twilight of his life faded into the sombre [sic] darkness of night. He was a man whose life and character were such as to win the friendship of all who came to know him well, while every one who knew him esteemed him as an upright man and a worthy and useful citizen. His death was sincerely mourned as the loss of one of the best men of the county.

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Married - 12 Dec 1838 - , Callaway, Missouri, USA

Buried - - Richland Baptist Cemetery, , Callaway, Missouri, USA

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