{"id":1573,"date":"2016-12-22T03:36:34","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T03:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/gravesites-of-the-macintyres-the-craig-family\/"},"modified":"2016-12-22T03:36:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T03:36:34","slug":"gravesites-of-the-macintyres-the-craig-family","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/gravesites-of-the-macintyres-the-craig-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Gravesites of “the MacIntyre’s” (The Craig Family)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gravesites of “the MacIntyre’s”
\n(The Craig Family)<\/span>
\nCave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
\nSection O
\n(map<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>  \"\"<\/strong>
\nOn the west side the lake, the site from down the hill looking up, and up the hill looking down<\/p>\n

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\nFrancis E Gatchel, Husband, Nov 3 1869 – March 20, 1942
\nAlice Craig, Wife of F E Gatchel, Sept 27, 1881 – March 8, 1909<\/p>\n

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\nAlice Craig
\nWife of Austin L Peay
\nBorn April 19, 1860
\nDied Dec 13, 1881
\n  Sister to “Miss Allison, 
\nMrs. Walton & Aunt Elise”<\/em><\/p>\n

 \"\"<\/a>
\nIn Memory of 
\nAleck Craig
\ndied Oct 7, 1868
\nAged 53 years
\n(this would be the “grandfather MacIntyre”)\u200b<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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  \"\"<\/a>
\nAnnie McCown Craig
\nWife of Aleck Craig
\nFeb 11, 1834
\nOct 20, 1914
\nGrandmother MacIntyre\u200b<\/em><\/p>\n

and<\/em><\/p>\n

Fannie Craig
\nFeb 9, 1859
\nMar 14, 1933
\nMiss (Aunt) Allison<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       The best landmark to use in finding the site is this Corinthian Temple monument (Bowles Family).
\nIt is at the top of the hill near the circle, and the Craig\/”MacIntyre” site is just behind it
\nand down the hill.  The National Cemetery is across the road, with sections for Union and Confederate fallen.<\/p>\n

A few notes on this site:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Craig family is well represented in the Little Colonel books.  But not completely.  Of this clan, as models for the characters, we can count Grandmother MacIntyre ( Annie McCown, or McGown Craig), Miss (or Aunt) Allison (Fannie Craig), Mrs. Walton (Mamie Craig) and her four children, and Aunt Elise (Louise Craig Culbertson) and her children, the Two Little Knights of Kentucky.  In addition, there were three brothers and another Craig sister that died years before the start of the Little Colonel stories: Alice. <\/p>\n

There’s a poignant tragic-sweet story with that.  Alice Craig fell seriously ill in late in 1881.  Her sister, Mary (Mamie) was just recently engaged to be married to an army  Captain (later General) Henry Ware Lawton.  Because Alice sensed the end was near for her, she begged her sister to marry quickly so that she would be able to attend the wedding.  Mamie quickly sent a telegraph to Henry and he obtained leave and left for Louisville by special train.  This sad wedding took place on December 12, 1881 at Alice’s death bed.  Alice died the next day.<\/p>\n

Alice is buried next to her mother (Grandmother MacIntyre) and sister Fannie (Miss Allison). We’re not sure who the other Alice is (born 1881), but guess this may have been Alice’s daughter (?).  Also, there was another sibling to Fannie, Alice, Mary & Louise, a brother never mentioned in the Little Colonel stories, Harry.  By the time of the early books, he had already left home and was living in Louisville, working as a civil engineer.<\/p>\n

Also, the relationships here in real life differ a bit from the fictionalized versions.  Starting with “Grandmother McIntyre” (modeled after Alice McCown Craig), who was in fact the maternal grandmother of the “Two Little Knights”, and not the paternal grandmother as presented in the stories.<\/p>\n

More from Census records:<\/p>\n

1880 
\nAnnie Craig is listed with children Mamie, 25; Alexander 23; Fanny, 21; Alice, 19; Harry, 16; Louise, 14; and son Merton, 11.
\n(In the 1870 census, a 6 year old son is listed as “McCown”, which was Annie Craig’s maiden name. It is apparently Harry though we don’t find him using “McCown” again in any other census.)
\n1900-1930 
\nMerton was in Louisville working as a “US Gauger”. In 1910 he was back with mother and siblings. Alexander and Harry were at home with Annie in 1900 and 1910 and were living with Fanny in 1920 and 1930. (at Edgewood)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gravesites of “the MacIntyre’s” (The Craig Family) Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY Section O (map)    On the west side the lake, the site from down the hill looking up, and up the hill looking down   Francis E Gatchel, Husband, Nov 3 1869 – March 20, 1942 Alice Craig, Wife of F E Gatchel, Sept 27, 1881 – March […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1561,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1573","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelittlecolonel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}