Berrywick Craig

Birth Date

1826-11-13

Death Date

1900-08-31

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Woodford County, Kentucky, merchant, politician, and postmaster. Scott County, Kentucky, native. Married to Nannie Thornton Craig in Clark County, Ohio, on June 3, 1856. Father of Irvine Craig. Resident of Woodford County, Kentucky, in 1850. Delegate from Woodford County to the Kentucky American Party convention in Frankfort in 1858. Merchant in Woodford County in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Woodford County in 1860. Member of the Versailles Board of Trustees in Woodford County in 1861. Delegate from Woodford County to the Kentucky Union Democratic Party Convention in Louisville in 1863. Postmaster of Versailes in Woodford County in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District 2, p. 464 B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Versailles, p. 824.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Versailles, p. 489KA.
Ohio Marriage Records, Clark County Probate Court, Springfield, Ohio, Clark County Marriages, Film #000466400.
Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Woodford County, Kentucky, vol. 1, p. 125.
“Union Meeting in Woodford County,” The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), Mar. 5, 1863.
"Berrywick 'Berry' Craig (1826-1900)," Find A Grave, Memorial #87096272, accessed August 21, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87096272.
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