Callaway-Jasper County MO Archives Biographies.....CRAIG, John Toliver May 7, 1809 - 
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Author: Wm. S. Bryan


From 'A history of the pioneer families of Missouri' by Wm. S. Bryan 1935
     CRAIG.--One day, a great many years ago, as a ship was sailing from an 
Irish Port to America, a sailor named Toliver CRAIG fell overboard and was 
drowned.  The next morning a boy baby was found on the deck of the vessel, with 
no one to claim him or take care [sic] him.  The ship was loaded with 
emigrants, among whom were his parents, who doubtless felt too poor to assume 
the care of the little fellow in the new country to which they were going; so 
they took that method of throwing him upon the charities of the ship's crew.  
After some consultation it was decided to name the little waif for the lost 
sailor, and he was accordingly christened Toliver CRAIG.  He grew to be a man, 
married and had a son, whom he also named Toliver.  The latter also grew to 
man's estate, married, and had a son, whom he named Toliver, Jr.  The latter 
married Elizabeth JOHNSON, of Virginia, and removed to Scott county, Ky., 
during the early settlement of that State.  The Indians were very hostile at 
the time, and they lived three years in a fort.  They had seven children--Jack, 
Elijah, William, Nathaniel, Mary, Nancy, and Toliver.  Jack, Elijah, William, 
and Nancy married and lived in Tennessee.  Nathaniel married Polly EALEY, and 
lived in Kentucky.   They had--William, Nancy, Martha, Robert, Ann, and Mary, 
all of whom settled in Missouri.  Toliver married Patsy WRIGHT, an English 
lady, by whom he had--Elizabeth, Polly, Larkin, Permelia, Catharine, Patsey W., 
Sally, Nathaniel, Margaret, Fannie, Carter T., and John T.  Larkin married 
Fanny FICKLIN, and settled in Callaway county at an early date.  Catharine 
married her cousin Levi CRAIG, who died, and she afterward married Colonel 
Thomas SMITH, of St. Aubert, Callaway county.  Patsey W. married Gideon GAMES, 
of Callaway county.  Nathaniel married Easter L. MCKINNEY. Margaret married 
Samuel CRAIG, her cousin.  Fanny also married her cousin Henry CRAIG, and live 
in Boone county.  Carter T. married Sally S. GAMES, and lives in Callaway 
county.  John T. married Adelia BERGER, and settled in Callaway county.


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