Husband James W. Craft 1
Born: 13 Feb 1807 1
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Father: David Craft (1763- ) 1 2
Mother: Margaret Woodrow ( -1812) 1 2
Marriage: 1847 1
Wife Caroline E. Craft 1
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1 F Ellen L. Craft 1
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Spouse: Samuel Colvin ( - ) 1
2 F Lauretta E. Craft 3
AKA: Loretta Craft 1
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Spouse: Joseph O. Miller ( - ) 1
3 F Hester B. Craft 1
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Spouse: Dr. H. W. Brashear ( - ) 1
4 M Richard N. Craft 1
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Spouse: Rebecca Nutt ( - ) 1
5 M Hayden R. Craft 1
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Spouse: Laura Bell Colley ( - ) 1
6 F Annie M. Craft 1
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Spouse: John R. Carothers ( - ) 1
7 F Jessie Benton Craft 1
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General Notes: Husband - James W. Craft
He was educated in common and select schools. He cultivated a taste for the higher grades of literature, and had great admiration and love for the English classics, a high appreciation for Campbell, Gray, and others of the British poets, and was able to quote many of their finest productions.
In early years he showed a proficiency in music. While quite a boy he became the leader of the celebrated military band which discoursed music for Capt. Geisey's company of Brownsville, and Capts. Trevor and Beeson's companies of Uniontown. This band made the music at the reception of Marquis de Lafayette in Uniontown in 1825, and was urged by him and the celebrated Albert Gallatin to accompany them to the home of the latter on the Monongahela above New Geneva, and partake of the festivities of his visit there, but were obliged to decline the flattering compliment.
This band, under the leadership of Mr. Craft, furnished music for all the Masonic and military parades of Uniontown, Washington, Brownsville, and many other places from 1824 to about 1835. So good was its music that Gen. Jackson said it surpassed any martial music he had ever heard. So great was Mr. Craft's fondness for music that he continued to play on his two favorite instruments, the flute and the clarionet, up to the hour of his last sickness. So noble and gentle was Mr. Craft during his whole life that it is safe to say that no man in the wide region throughout which he was known was ever more missed after death than he, or his loss more sincerely felt.
He was a justice of the peace in his native township for about thirty years, and was not only a justice in every sense of the word, but was eminently a man of peace, never failing, contrary to his own pecuniary interest, to urge upon litigants a peaceful settlement of their difficulties. He became a member of the Hopewell branch of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. When the final hour came he expressed himself as ready and willing to die, "having full assurance of a blessed immortality."
He and his wife had nine children, seven of whom were living in 1882.
General Notes: Wife - Caroline E. Craft
from Redstone Twp, Fayette Co, PA
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He and his wife were cousins.