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- The following tribute article was printed in a special edition of The Mountain Eagle of 28 May, 1931, honoring prominent business leaders and patriarchs of the county.
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Uncle Chunk Craft and Aunt Polly Ann
"We are glad, our readers are glad that the above [pictured] two old pioneer citizens are still living after so long, having weathered time's beating and so often destructive storms. We are proud to show them for many reasons, one of which is that they are each the representative of several of the oldest and best families that ever saw the light of the hills, mountains and creeks of what is now Letcher County -- the old Craft family, the old Caudill family, one of the old Adams families and, not least if you please, the old Webb family. How sacred and dear to our hearts are these old names to some of us, most of us! Uncle Chunk Enoch (but that name doesn't sound so feelingly) is a son of the late Archelas Craft, who for years sounded the gospel up and down these valleys, and Lettie Webb Craft, a daughter of the late eBnj. (sic) Webb, who was a son-in-law of the first John Adams and the head of that family of Adams, so plentiful and so well known all over the mountains. Archelas Craft was a grandson of the first Craft to come into the country, too, and who came with John Adams. Aunt Polly Ann is a daughter of the late preacher John A. Caudill, and when this is said all the Caudills of that family know her. Uncle Chunk and Aunt Polly Ann still reside at the old home on Millstone and are approaching, peacefully and gladly, 'the set of a glorious sun over on the other shore.' And may God bless them and spare them with us for years yet!"
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Children |
+ | 1. Craft, Rachel Virginia, b. 14 Feb 1868, Letcher, Kentucky, United States d. 3 Aug 1954, Greenup, Kentucky, United States (Age 86 years) |
+ | 2. Craft, Archelous C., b. 12 Sep 1868, Letcher, Kentucky, United States d. 1952, Letcher, Kentucky, United States (Age 83 years) |
+ | 3. Craft, Letitia, b. 21 Apr 1872, Letcher, Kentucky, United States d. 27 Mar 1905, Letcher, Kentucky, United States (Age 32 years) |
| 4. Craft, Nancy C., b. 8 Oct 1872, Letcher, Kentucky, United States d. 15 Dec 1875, Letcher, Kentucky, United States (Age 3 years) |
+ | 5. Craft, Drucilla, b. 4 Dec 1874, Letcher, Kentucky, United States d. 20 Sep 1959, Letcher, Kentucky, United States (Age 84 years) |
| 6. Craft, John D., b. 9 Jul 1876 d. 24 Jan 1878, Letcher, Kentucky, United States (Age 1 year) |
| 7. Craft, Watson George, b. 9 Mar 1878, Letcher, Kentucky, United States d. 1 Dec 1881 (Age 3 years) |
+ | 8. Craft, Benjamin E., b. 12 Sep 1879, Millstone, Letcher, Kentucky, United States d. 15 Jun 1957, Letcher, Kentucky, United States (Age 77 years) |
+ | 9. Craft, Mattie Elizabeth, b. 15 Jul 1881, Letcher, Kentucky, United States d. 6 Feb 1958, Letcher, Kentucky, United States (Age 76 years) |
+ | 10. Craft, Sabrina, b. 8 Sep 1883, Kentucky, United States d. 1 Jan 1956, Fayette, Kentucky, United States (Age 72 years) |
+ | 11. Craft, Ibby Victoria, b. 27 Apr 1885, Letcher, Kentucky, United States d. 30 Apr 1907, Letcher, Kentucky, United States (Age 22 years) |
+ | 12. Craft, Sarah Jane, b. 23 Jan 1889 d. 9 Jun 1974, Letcher, Kentucky, United States (Age 85 years) |
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