Taliaferro Toliver CRAIG

Story of Taliaferro Craig
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Wohnort:1775-1792 in Kentucky, USA
Bryant's Station and the memorial proceedings held on its site under the auspices of the Lexington Chapter, D.A.R., August the

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the women carried a pail on the head and a pail in each hand, so that it would require three girls to equal one of them.
Here, then, is the final roll of honor, made up of the mothers who went to the spring and their daughters who were old enough to help them bring water:

list of women and girls who went to the spring for water.

Mrs. Jemima Suggett Johnson, wife of Colonel Robert Johnson, and her daughter, Betsy Johnson.
Mrs. Sara Page Craig, wife of Captain John Craig, and her daughters, Betsy Craig, Sally Craig, Nancy Craig, and Polly Craig.
Mrs. Lucy Hawkins Craig, wife of Captain Jeremiah Craig, and her daughters, Polly Craig and Frankey Craig.
Mrs. Polly Hawkins Craig, wife of Toliver Craig, senior, and her daughter, Sally Craig.
Mrs. Elizabeth Johnson Craig, wife of Toliver Craig, junior, and her daughters, Polly Craig and Nancy Craig.
Mrs. Jane Craig Saunders, wife of John Saunders, and her daughters, Polly Saunders, Betsy Saunders, and Lydia Saunders.

TALIAFERRO CRAIG
Taliaferro Craig was the posthumous child of John Craig, who died in Scotland in 1704. This John Craig was the great-grandson of John Craig, 1st, who was born in 1512 and died in 1600.
John Craig married Jane Taliaferro, who after the death of her husband, came to America with her brothers, Robert and William Taliaferro. They came to Virginia. John Craig died in Scotland in November, 1704, and his son, Taliaferro Craig was born in Virginia four months after the death of his father. Taliaferro Craig married Mary Hawkins in 1730. Taliaferro Craig died in Kentucky in 1795. His wife, Mary Hawkins, died in 1804.
The first son of Mary Hawkins and Taliaferro Craig, was named John H. Craig and the first daughter, Jane T. Craig. Lewis Craig, a Baptist minister, was also a son.
The above record was obtained from the Clerk of the Jessamine County Court, Nicholasville, Kentucky, December 1, 1927. She did not give the source of her information.
The father of Tolliver Craig, or Taliaferro Craig, as the name is correctly spelled, was John Craig, Jr. of Scotland, who died in 1704, and whose wife was Jane Taliaferro. After his death, his widowcame to America "with her two brothers, Robert and John Taliaferro, -where his posthumous son, Tolliver, was born in 'Spot-sylvania County, Virginia, in 1705. He married Mary Hawkins in 1730, and they were the parents of Lewis, Elijah and Joseph, the three preachers, who led the famous church in 1781. John Craig, the father of Tolliver, was either the son or grandson of John Craig, the Friar,mentioned in the "Sketch of the Parrishes."
Tolliver Craig was a citizen of Botetourt County, Virginia, and while a resident there married Mary Hawkins, and they are said to be the parents of eleven children, who were born and reared in that state, and most of them, if not all, married there. Afterwards some of them accompanied their parents to Kentucky, the others going later. These twelve families distributed themselves over several parts of Fayette County, in such a way that some of them were located in Woodford County, some in Scott County, and some in Jessamine County, when these counties were separated from Fayette County, whileothers remained in Fayette County. The father, Tolliver Craig, and his wife, were thought to have lived in Scott County. Tolliver Craig, Sr., died in 1796, but his wife survived him many years.Their children were in part: Elijah, John, Tolliver, Jr., Rev. Joseph, Jane and Elizabeth.
(Authority: Kentucky State Historical Society Register, Vol. 19, page 119, Year 1921.)
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