DR. ROBERT C. CRAIG.
The subject of this sketch was born near Abingdon, Washington
county, January 21, 1819, and his home has always been in this county,
where he has been in practice as physician and surgeon, and has also
given much time to the cultivation of his estate. He was magistrate
of the county under the old constitution for eight years, several years
post-master, first at Craigs Mills, then at Maple Grove. By reason of
civil appointments he was exempt from military duty during the late
war. He is an A. F. and A. M. of Abingdon Lodge, No. 48, and has filled
worthily every office in the lodge except Master. Near Abingdon, April
14, 1841, Dr. Craig married Margaret J. Parrott, born July 23, 1823.
Their children were born in the order named: Amanda P., Margaret
P. (now deceased), Virginia K. (now deceased), James Henry, Mary
Eliza, Sarah Harriet, Robert Claude.
Dr. Craig is a son of James Chambers Craig, who was long cashier of
banks at Nashville and Columbia, and who came from Baltimore, Maryland,
where his father, James Craig, settled on coming from Ireland.
The mother of Dr. Craig was born in Washington county, near Abingdon,
Amanda P., daughter of Captain Robert Craig, formerly of Carlisle,
Pennsylvania, and an officer of the Revolutionary war, whose wife was
Jane Denny.
Dr. Craig's wife is a daughter of Henry Parrott, who came to Washington
county from Botetourt county, Virginia, having learned the
saddler's trade at Fincastle. Her mother was Margaret, daughter of
James Piper, an early settler in Washington county, whose grafting
originated the well-known "Piper Pear."
