Thomas Craig

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1924, Friday April 11, The Almonte Gazette, page 3
Thos Craig
After an illness of about a year's duration, Mr Thomas Craig passes away at his home on the 8th line of Ramsay on Tuesday morning, April 1st at 10:30 o'clock. He was born in Ramsay in 1844, being the son of the late Thos. and Jane Craig, and spent the greater part of his life on the farm where he was born. He married Isabel J. McAlister who survives him with a family of one son and three daughters, Thos F. Craig, at home; Mrs J.A. Hough of White Lake; Mrs J.A. Albright and Effie V. Craig, R.N. of Massillon, Ohio, also two sisters Mrs Anne Goodfellow of Ramsay and Mrs Jas Smithson of White Lake and one brother Duncan who died in childhood. The funeral which was largely attended by friends and neighbours took place from his late residence on April 3 at 2 o'clock to the 8th line cemetery. Services were conducted by the Rev. J.D. McCrae Presbyterian minister and by L.O.L. No 378 of which he had been a member for almost sixty years. The pallbearers were six brother Orangemen Messers Thos. Puckett. Jas Little, Robert Forde, Edward James, Albert Lotan and Archie Johnson

Family/Spouse: Isabella Jane McAllister. Isabella was born in 1856 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Canada West; died on 1 Aug 1934 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Auld Kirk Cemetery, Ramsay, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Thomas Frederick Craig was born on 15 Oct 1883 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 22 Jul 1945 in Ottawa, Carleton County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Auld Kirk Cemetery, Ramsay, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
2. Emma Wilson Craig was born in 1885 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 28 Jun 1958 in Arnprior, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in White Lake Cemetery, White Lake, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada.
3. Betha Ethel Craig was born in 1889 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died in Jan 1935 in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, United States; was buried in Auld Kirk Cemetery, Ramsay, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.
4. Effie Velma Craig was born on 7 Apr 1897 in Ramsay Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 10 Dec 1972 in St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, United States; was buried on 28 Dec 1972 in Auld Kirk Cemetery, Ramsay, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada.

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1892, Friday February 26, The Almonte Gazette, front page
An Old Settler Called Home
Mr Thomas Craig, one of the few remaining pioneers of Ramsay, received the call to his eternal rest last Thursday, after an illness of three weeks duration, resulting from an attack of grippe, The old gentleman, although not possessed of a rugged constitution, was almost a stranger to sickness; but the well-worn frame fell an easy victim to the insidious trouble which he was attacked. The late Mr Craig was born in Glasgow, Scotland, October 15th, 1815, and had reached the advanced age of 76. He came with his parents to Canada in 1821, They, like many of the first settlers, went to Lanark, and from that village came down the Clyde and Mississippi by boats to Almonte, their first camping spot hereabout being where our town hall now stands. They settled on the eighth line of Ramsay the same year, and on that line deceased lived continuously till his death ? a period of over seventy years. Mr Craig married Jane Clarke in 1843, Mrs Craig died eight years ago, since which time the husband resided alone till within a few weeks of his death. Three children survive ? Mrs Thomas Goodfellow, Mrs James Smithson and Thos Craig all of Ramsay. The funeral took place on Saturday last, to the eighth line cemetery, and was largely attended. The ranks of the pioneer settlers are getting thinner year by year, and exceedingly few are left to tell of the hardships and privations they had to endure in paving the way for the fine farms and comfortable homes of the present generation, Honoured be their memories!

Thomas married Jane Clarke in 1843. Jane was born in 1816; died on 8 Feb 1884; was buried in Auld Kirk Cemetery, Ramsay, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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