| Name | George Austin CRAIG |
| Birth | 18 Oct 1883, Atlantic, Iowa |
| Death | 10 Aug 1979, La Grande, Oregon |
| Father | Daniel Chester CRAIG (1859-1946) |
| Mother | Lydia Rebecca WILSON (1861-1952) |
| 1 | Lulu Dot BUCHANAN |
| Birth | Jun 1889, Precept, Nebraska |
| Death | 18 Sep 1974, La Grande, Oregon |
| Burial | Sommerville, Oregon |
| Marriage | 25 Dec 1905, Puyallup, Washington |
| Children | Bessie Alfie (1907-1908) |
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Dec 21,1965
I, George Craig will add a few more memories to the family history.
When we made the trip back to Nebraska, and I was 10 years old, I rode my Shetland Pony all the wayy. When we reached the Snake River, I swam it on the Shetland, driving a herd of horses. (32 head of loose horses), but the wagon went around and crossed the bridge, which was over 30 miles more. After riding the pony all the way, in about two months, he kinked his neck, and we had to kill him.
Talking about horse thieves, we saw one wagon where they had chained the horses to the wheels. Thieves had taken off the wheels and took both horses and wheels.
When we was living in Scottsbluff, Neb. my Dad, had three stage lines. They started at Gearing, one going to Sidney, one to Alliance and the other to Fort Laramie, Wyoming. One time a old Gentleman was driving one of the stage lines for Dad. It was necessary to take some one along as a helper. When he did not return, my Father and I went to see what had happened. I remember it very vivid, when we found them all four mules were standing up hitched to the wagon, the man sitting in the seat with his foot on the brake, his wife was sitting in the seat by his side. They were all frozen to death. My Dad had 32 head of stage mules. My Sister Jane drove the stage line from Gering to Fort Laramie for over a year.
When we made the last trip out West by Wagon Train, we were camped near Jackson Hole, when a group of Mormons chased a herd of horses through our camp, and stampeded our horses. We hunted for five days to find them. Because the wagons were getting short of food, they went on, but I stayed and helped a crippled man find his horses, which took three more days. Later catching up with the rest of the group. When coming out we would always stop around noon on Saturday, do the washing and let the horses rest until early Monday Morning.
Daniel Chester Craig's great grandfather was born in scotland, nearly on the line betweenj Scotland and Ireland. He was half Scotch and half Irish. He later came to New York and married an English woman. They had three children, all boys, but they died. His wife died also. He re-married a English woman and they moved to Canada. Three children were born there. Later they moved to Michigan. One of these boys, who was Daniel Chester Craig's Grandfather, was married here and farmed for awhile. Then I think they moved to Indiana, later going to Iowa on the Mississippi River. When Daniel Chester Craig was four years old they moved near Des Moines, Iowa.
- - - - (Ed. note, the last pages of Geo. & Sam Craigs memoir is a listing of names, dates and places of births, marriages and deaths of Lydia and Chester Craigs descendents) - - - - - -.
---(This writer recalls seeing Lydia Craig only once in the late 1940's.
However my father, Ralph Sr. remembers aunt Lydia saying that those early years of traveling and living out of a wagon were very happy and memorable in spite of the hardships. The Craigs were (and are) truly "salt of the earth" pioneering people.) - - RAW Jr, 1977...