Donna,
You will find a number of other descendants searching for the Major as well as you. Do Goggle searchs Edward Chambers Craig and "Edward Chambers Criag" to view.
I found two of his sons who served in the Civil War, both were employed as Clerks pre-war in Richmond.
George Edward Craig, wound up as a Sgt. in Co. D, 1st Virginia Infantry, captured April 6, 1865 at Fisher's Creek, Va and released at Newport News July 1, 1865.
John Anthony Craig served in Co. F, 21st Virginia Intantry, for a considerable period of time he served as Clerk to the Division Surgeon, Feb. 1863 he applied for a commission as a Captain in the Quartermaster's Department receiving numerous recommendations including one from his previous employer Kent Paine & Co., Richmond. It does not appear that he was successful. On February 14, 1864 he was appointed as regimental Hospital Steward.
I could find no information on his other son Waddy Street Craig.
Good Hunting,
George Martin
67) I am seeking information related to Edward Chambers Craig. He lived at Rosewood, a plantation at Port Walthal Junction north of Petersburg, VA. Plantation of some 300+ acres also included the Chester Hotel. A copy of the deed is on file at the Chesterfield County Courthouse. Two sons, George Edward Craig (1st Virginia Inf Reg) and John Anthony Craig (21st Virginia Inf Reg) served and survived the war. George Edward Craig moved to Henderson Kentucky after the War and is buried there. His tombstone lists him as "Major" though I have been unable to find any military records. Family stories indicate that he was in the "Quartermasters" and that he was involved in "Recruitment (Conscription?)". I have been unable to locate any records of employees or members of Quartermaster Batallion of Richmond or Petersburg. His obituary also lists him as as "Major". He served one term in the Kentucky legislature. I am interested in any means of verifying his service to the Confederacy, pictures of him, Rosewood, the Chester Hotel, etc. paper@pldi.net or jon.craig@oklaos [http://www.mosocco.com/bulletinboard.html]No Date.
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Craig Rains (View posts) Posted: 17 Nov 2003 1:08AM GMT
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Hello, Susan.
I found your four-year-old inquiry about the Craig family on Rootsweb today. Waddy Street Craig was my great uncle. My grandfather was George Edward Craig and part of the family that moved from Rosewood Plantation to Henderson a few years after the war. George went to medical school at the U of K, along with his brother-in-law. Both of them moved to Evening Shade, Arkansas, and practiced medicine until their deaths.
I had wondered what happened to Waddy. My Landon C. Bell books both mention he served in the Confederate Army under his father, Major Edward Chambers Craig, but I have been unable to find any Confederate service records on either one so I am a little skeptical. Edward's marker in Fernwood Cemetery lists him as "Major, CSA." However, I don't want to infer that our Craig family is prone to making things up.
I am just getting started in this genealogy project and about all I have are the two Bell books (Cumberland Parish and The Old Free State) that trace our family back to the Rev. James Craig.
The Moses Craig group came over to Henderson, I believe, from Penn., not Virginia and I do not believe we are related. I, too, want to find out why our family selected Henderson.
I have just retired to Virginia from Arkansas and will have access to libraries at Richmond. I'll be happy to pass on to you anything that I find.
-- Craig
[http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.henderson/1349.1413/mb.ashx]
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KILLS HIMSELF IN A HOTEL.; Chambers M. Craig, Retired Merchant, Puts a Bullet in His Brain.
April 6, 1909, Tuesday
Page 1, 405 words
After sending his wife on a pleasure trip to Atlantic City so that she might not be present to deter him from his act, Capt. Chambers M. Craig, 65 years old, said to have been a civil war veteran, a brother of the noted Major Craig, whose life was the subject of a biography, committed suicide last night in his apartment at the Barnett, 66 Madison Avenue.
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