Hello!!!! My name is Mrs. Jessy Frieze. I have been researching Jesse Russell Craig for quite some time now. I guess I am at a brick wall and am writting with hopes you may be able to provide me with some information on the elusive Jesse R. Craig. The information I have on Jesse Russell Craig is as follows: -He was born abt. 19 Jan 1828. New York? -He died 30 March 1898. Multnomah Co., OR -He married Nancy Moore 21 April 1864 in Cranberry Twp, Venago Co., PA Jesse and Nancy had the following children: -John William Craig b. 1865 -Brinton Webley Craig b. 1868? -Robert W. Craig b. 1870 -Julia Craig b. 1874 -Jessie Rose Craig b.1882 -Cylde C. Craig b. 1885 (adopted) Jesse R. Craig fought in the civil war as a private in Company 'C' of the 105th Pennsylvania Regiment and in his pension files he mentions two brothers Darius W. Craig and Robert Craig living in Cranberry Twp, Venago Co., PA. In Nancy's widows' pension file she has two sisters Maria Jane (Moore) Emery and Sarah Ann (Moore) Jacobs. A side note about Jesse's regiment; it was comanded by a Calvin Augustus Craig or C.A. Craig. There was also a Joseph Craig in the regiment. Joseph Craig was 35 in 1879. In his pension files a Anderson Bruce says Jesse Russell Craig was a foreman of a Coal Mine in Tennessee. In most of the accounts in his pension file it talks about him being a farmer and how he was discharged on a surgeons certificate. He had typhoid or camp fever which left him half disabled for the rest of his life. Jesse lived in Cranberry Twp, Venago Co., PA since he was small child until the war. He "farmed with father" until 1868 when he moved to Tennessee. There he lived on a farm. His Neighboors in Tennessee included Bruce, Carver, Arrington, Crawford, Horner. Jesse R. Craig moved back to Cranberry Twp, PA in 1879. He stayed for a year. Then Jesse Craig (and I assume family) moved to Iola, Kansas around 1880. In Iola he worked on a farm. He stayed 2 and a half years. Around 1882 or 1883 he (and family) moved to Bates CO., Missouri. Then went to Attkinson Co., Missouri. He worked on "Mr. Sparkes farm one season". The he (not family I think) went back to PA for 6-8 months on business. Then Jesse Craig and family all moved to Oregon in 1886 and took up a homestead that same fall. That is most of the information I have on Jesse Russell Craig. Please e-mail me with any information you may have!!!! Thank-you!!!! Mrs. Jessy Frieze ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com