Biography of M R Craig, Independence Co, AR

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SOURCE: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas. 
Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889.
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page 657 

M. R. Craig, proprietor of meat market. Batesville. [p.657] Dealing in
articles necessary for our daily sustenance, it is not surprising that the
number of those engaged in the butchering business should he large, but this
field of enterprise is also a large one. Among those engaged in this pursuit is
Mr. Craig, a native of Greenbriar Township, Independence County, Ark., born on
the 16th of March, 1851, and the son of John L. Craig, who was a native of
Tennessee. The father came to Batesville when a young man, taught school for
several years, and was married in Independence County, to Miss Margaret
Harding, a native of Arkansas. They then located in Oil Trough Bottom, and
afterward moved to Greenbriar Township, where he purchased a farm, and there
died in 1864. The mother is still living, and resides on the old homestead, in
Greenbriar Township. They were the parents of eight children, seven now living:
John, was killed in Tennessee, while serving in the army; Lizzie, wife of P.
Tucker; Joseph, Andrew, James, Mark R., Laura, wife of W. L. Dunaway, and Jane,
wife of William Cullens. M. R. Craig attained his growth in Greenbriar
Township, and assisted on the farm until twenty-one years of age. At about 1875
he engaged in the butcher's business in Batesville, and has since carried it
on. He owns a timber tract of land of forty acres, and is also the owner of
town property in Batesville. He has been a member of the council of Batesville.
In the year 1871 he selected Miss Sarah Elms as his companion in life, and the
fruits of this marriage are four living children: Baswell W., Maggie, Andrew J.
and Abernathy. One, deceased, was named Robert Henry. Mr. Craig is a member of
the I. O. O. F. and the K. of H.