Joseph Craft and
Martha Irby Bates
Joseph B Craft (same as
Joseph Craft) b 7 Dec 1816
Letcher Co KY d 5 Dec 1886 Laurel Co KY buried Clay Co KY, (See
Letcher Co KY 1860 Census), s/o
James Craft and
Drusilla Hammonds. Joseph Craft m. 20 Mar 1834 Perry Co KY to Martha Irby
Bates b 11 Dec 1816 VA d 18 Apr 1895 London, Laurel Co KY buried Clay Co KY,
d/o John Wallis Bates
and Sarah Ann Walthrop. Joseph Craft was an Old Regular Baptist preacher.
Children of Joseph Craft and Martha Irby Bates;
John
Henderson Craft b 20 Dec 1834 Perry Co KY d 13 Sept 1920 m. 11 Oct 1855 to
Nancy Jane CAUDILL b 5 Nov 1840 d 5 Nov 1922, d/o
John A
Caudill and Rachel Cornett.
Sarah
Craft b 10 Feb 1837 d 31 Aug 1898 m. 12 Oct 1854 to
Smith Crittenden
Mullins b 13 Dec 1831 d 26 Jun 1898 s/o
Booker Mullins and
Mary Polly Newsome.
Drusilla
"Siller" Craft b 7 Apr 1839 Perry Co KY d 27 Aug 1876 m.
Stephen Nathaniel
Reynolds b 1838 d Jun 1877 Letcher Co KY s/o
Noah Milburn Reynolds
and Mary Chaney Stone. Stephen N Reynolds is buried in the Reynolds Cemetery
with a Civil War Military stone. He and his brother
William Henry Reynolds were in the
39th KY as Union soldiers.
James
W Craft b 26 Jul 1841.
William
Richardson Craft b 24 Nov 1843 Letcher Co KY d 12 May 1928 m. 21 Jun 1868
Letcher Co KY to Emily Jane Sergent b 1850 Harlan Co KY d 1906, d/o
Andrew Jackson
Sergent and Elizabeth "Betsy" Nolan. William Richardson Craft m. 2nd
Laura Phillips.
Martha
Manerva Craft b 7 Dec 1845 Letcher Co KY d 25 Aug 1936 m. 8 Jul 1869 to Joe
Fouts.
Mary
Craft b 4 Jan 1848 Letcher Co KY d 17 Sept 1938 m. 19 Apr 1872 to James
Mullins b 4 Jan 1847 d 1897.
Joseph
A Craft b 6 Mar 1850 Letcher Co KY d 1929 m. Samantha Smith, Julia Tapp and
Mary Mullins.
Eliza
Craft b 9 Nov 1853 Letcher Co KY m. 4 Jan 1871 to John Christopher
Reynolds, b 1851 Scott Co VA d Seco, Letcher Co KY, s/o
Noah Milburn Reynolds
and Mary Chaney Stone. Eliza Craft m. Henry Hensley.
Nancy J Craft b 12 Mar 1856 Letcher Co KY d 18 Jan 1950 m. 1875 to Wilburn
Green.
Robert B Craft b 30 Mar 1860 Letcher Co KY. Unmarried.
Elizabeth "Eliza" Craft b 30 Mar 1860 d 30 Mar 1860. (Other accounts say she
was born Feb 1855 Letcher Co KY d 1 Apr 1855).
Morgan
T Craft b 4 Feb 1862 Letcher Co KY m. Sallie Pearl.

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