Louisa Craig
Louisa Craig was born around 1842 in Pennsylvania to Alexander Craig and Sebella Kern. Her father was a farmer who owned $8,850 of real estate and $2,000 of personal property by 1860. Louisa grew up and attended school in Derry, Pennsylvania, and she maintained a correspondence with her neighbor James Wilson Barnett during the Civil War. She married James Brown Moore around 1865, and they had at least three children: Mary Louisa, born around 1867; John Alexander, born around 1870; and James Craig, born around 1874. The family lived in Derry, and her husband worked as a machinist. They moved to Triadelphia, West Virginia, by the early 1900s. Her husband died in 1907, and she died in Wheeling, West Virginia, on May 21, 1910.
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| (848) | Craig, Louisa ~ Moore, Louisa | 1842 | 1910-05-21 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Civilian
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- Gender: Female
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 5
- (1474) [recipient] ~ James W. Barnett to Louisa Craig, 3 January 1862
- (1475) [recipient] ~ James W. Barnett to Louisa Craig, 7 April 1862
- (1476) [recipient] ~ James W. Barnett to Louisa Craig, 23 June 1862
- (1477) [recipient] ~ James W. Barnett to Louisa Criag, 24 September 1861
- (1478) [recipient] ~ James W. Barnett to Louisa Craig, 14 February 1862
People - Records: 1
- (848) Craig, Louisa is the [friend of] (847) Barnett, James Wilson
Places - Records: 2
SOURCES
1860, 1880, and 1910 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; West Virginia Deaths Index, 1853-1973, available from Ancestry.com.
