George Henry Craig (1933)

CRAIG, PAYNE, YOUNG, LAWRENCE, BROWN

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 2/1/2007 at 14:26:48

Winterset Madisonian-Winterset, Iowa
April 20, 1933

George H. Craig

George Henry Craig, was born in Henry county, Illinois, June 17, 1848 and died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. James E. Young, near St. Charles, Iowa, April 9, 1933 age 84 years, 9 months and 22 days. In 1875 he came as a young man from the parental home in Illinois to Warren county, Iowa, where soon after he was married to Miss Clara Payne, whom he had previously met in Illinois and in 1881, they moved onto a farm in Ohio township, Madison county, Iowa, which he afterwards purchased and owned at the time of his death.

To this union were born two children, Myrtle, now Mrs. James E. Young, who with her husband, cared for him in his last sickness, and Walter F. Craig of Winterset, now temporarily residing in Ames. His wife passed away in 1910 and then for a short time he made his home in Truro, but later returned to the farm where he resided until March 1931, and since that time lived alternately with his daughter and son, but since last September has lived with his daughter. In 1913 he was married to Mrs. Mary Lawrence of Truro, who died two years later. In his family there were six brothers, and one sister, all having preceded him in death except one brother, Ernest of Timewell, Illinois.

Besides his daughter, son and one brother, he is survived by five grandchildren, Margaret Young of Peoria, Illinois, Mrs. Imogene Brown of Oakville, Iowa, Forrest Young, now living on the old homestead near Truro, Walter F. Craig, Jr., and Alice Louise Craig of Ames and one great granddaughter, Patricia Mae Young.

He was a man of few wants, naturally jovial in disposition and bore up under his physical ailments without complaint. He enjoyed and retained the friendships with those with whom he cme in close contact, but was not a man who was aggesssive in extending his acquaintance.

His funeral services were conducted at the Kale undertaking parlors in Truro Monday afternoon, the Rev. Carnhan of the United Presbyterian church of St. Charles having charge. Interment was in the Young cemetery east of Truro.