History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky, ed.
by William Henry Perrin,  O. L. Baskin & Co., Chicago, 1882.  p. 691.
[Harrison County]   [Sylvan Dell Precinct]

SAMUEL W. CRACRAFT, farmer, P. O. Sylvan Dell; born in Mason County,
March 11, 1818; his grandfather, Thomas Cracraft, came from Ireland and
settled in Virginia; removed to Kentucky very early when the Indians
were still troublesome, died in Kentucky upward of four score years of
age; his father, Joseph Cracraft, came from Virginia; he was a cooper by
trade as well as farmer; died in Robertson County, aged about 84 years.
Our subject, Samuel W. Cracraft, was raised a farmer; he also now deals
pretty extensively in leaf tobacco, in the year 1842 he married Elizabeth,
daughter of Wm. and Fannie (Griffin) Smith, of Bourbon County; he is the
father of seven children, six of whom are living, viz: Mary Ellen,
married first to Wash Taylor and now to James Smith, of Nicholas County;
Sarah, married to Jno. McGuire, of Robertson County; WIlliam, living in
Texas; Thomas, married to Frances Minor; and Fannie, married to John
Argo; both himself and wife are members of the Irvinsville Baptist CHurch;
enlisted in the Southern army in the fall of 1861, under Capt. Cameron,
1st battalion of Kentucky Cavalry, Humphrey Marshall's Division.  Was in
the two engagements at Middle Cut and Princeton, Va.; at this time being
over age, he got discharged and returned home; is a Democrat, a member of
Fair Play Grange and a demitted member of the Mt. Olivet Masonic Lodge.

Cracraft Griffin Smith Taylor Smith McGuire Minor Argo
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Nicholas-KY Bourbon-KY Mason-KY Robertson-KY VA

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