{"id":1417,"date":"2025-06-11T02:27:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2025-06-11T02:27:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:27:50","slug":"craig-robert-marion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/2025\/06\/11\/craig-robert-marion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig, Robert Marion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, \nFloyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington\nJohn M. Gresham &amp; Co. Chicago 1889       \n\n\n\n\n\nROBERT MARION CRAIG was born in Harrison county, Ind., July 28, 1833, and is a son of \nWilliam and Elizabeth (Meyers)  Craig, natives of Pennsylvania and Virginia respectively.     \nWilliam Craig was the son of Jesse Craig, who emigrated from Pennsylvania about the year 1811, \nand settled in Harrison county, on Blue River. Elizabeth Meyers Craig was a daughter of John \nMeyers, a native of Virginia.  The subject of this sketch was raised on a farm and educated \nin the common schools.\n      \nHe enlisted November 7, 1861, in Co. F, Forty-ninth Indiana Vol.  Infantry, and served until \nNov. 29, 1864, when, his time having expired, he was honorably discharged.  He was in all \nthe battles in which his regiment took part, including the siege of Vicksburg.  He entered \nthe service as a private and was mustered out as a first lieutenant, which is a guarantee \nof his good service as a soldier.    After his term of service had expired he returned home \nand settled down to the quiet life of a farmer, and was married January 5, 1865, to Sarah C. \nBreeden, daughter of Bryant Breeden, a native of Harrison county.   They have three children, \nviz: Dora, Alta and Robert M.  Mr. Craig commenced clerking in l875, continuing the same \nuntil 1887, when he engaged in the mercantile business for himself in Leavenworth.  \nHe carries a good stock, worth about $3,000, and is an energetic and active business man.  \nHe has filled several township offices with great acceptability.  He is a G. A. R. member.\n\n\n\nData Entry Volunteer:  Dee Floyd-Pavey  \"dee1234@aye.net\"\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biographical and Historical Souvenir for the Counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott and Washington John M. Gresham &amp; Co. Chicago 1889 ROBERT MARION CRAIG was born in Harrison county, Ind., July 28, 1833, and is a son of William and Elizabeth (Meyers) Craig, natives of Pennsylvania and Virginia respectively. William Craig was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biographies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentuckianagenealogy.org\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}