Siblings:
Ella Francis Craig Loveless
Lillie Belle Craig Starnes
Lucetta Settie Craig Neal Brumley
Stephen Douglas Craig
The picture my mother painted of her paternal grandmother was that of a corncob pipe smoking woman with a couple of mean geese who lived on a dusty farm in the desert. The image makes me laugh. It's as if Tempie was some sort of pint-sized Annie Oakley, spittin' snuff as well as bullets, with honking geese at her feet as guard dogs.
Tempie grew up in Kentucky, one of the daughters of Isaac Craig and Nancy Harmon. She married Thomas Neal when she was just 13 years old and had four children with him before he passed. She next married Abraham Burton in 1921 and had two more children, one of whom (Rebecca) died young. In 1943, Abe and Tempie made their way out West and settled in hot and dry Palmdale, CA.
She is buried next to her son, Ted, and his wife, Helen, in Green Hills Cemetery in Rancho Palos Verdes. Helen purchased the 3 plots after her husband passed and said she picked the location because there was a view of the ocean. That view is now obstructed with development.
Ella Francis Craig Loveless
Lillie Belle Craig Starnes
Lucetta Settie Craig Neal Brumley
Stephen Douglas Craig
The picture my mother painted of her paternal grandmother was that of a corncob pipe smoking woman with a couple of mean geese who lived on a dusty farm in the desert. The image makes me laugh. It's as if Tempie was some sort of pint-sized Annie Oakley, spittin' snuff as well as bullets, with honking geese at her feet as guard dogs.
Tempie grew up in Kentucky, one of the daughters of Isaac Craig and Nancy Harmon. She married Thomas Neal when she was just 13 years old and had four children with him before he passed. She next married Abraham Burton in 1921 and had two more children, one of whom (Rebecca) died young. In 1943, Abe and Tempie made their way out West and settled in hot and dry Palmdale, CA.
She is buried next to her son, Ted, and his wife, Helen, in Green Hills Cemetery in Rancho Palos Verdes. Helen purchased the 3 plots after her husband passed and said she picked the location because there was a view of the ocean. That view is now obstructed with development.
Siblings:
Ella Francis Craig Loveless
Lillie Belle Craig Starnes
Lucetta Settie Craig Neal Brumley
Stephen Douglas Craig
The picture my mother painted of her paternal grandmother was that of a corncob pipe smoking woman with a couple of mean geese who lived on a dusty farm in the desert. The image makes me laugh. It's as if Tempie was some sort of pint-sized Annie Oakley, spittin' snuff as well as bullets, with honking geese at her feet as guard dogs.
Tempie grew up in Kentucky, one of the daughters of Isaac Craig and Nancy Harmon. She married Thomas Neal when she was just 13 years old and had four children with him before he passed. She next married Abraham Burton in 1921 and had two more children, one of whom (Rebecca) died young. In 1943, Abe and Tempie made their way out West and settled in hot and dry Palmdale, CA.
She is buried next to her son, Ted, and his wife, Helen, in Green Hills Cemetery in Rancho Palos Verdes. Helen purchased the 3 plots after her husband passed and said she picked the location because there was a view of the ocean. That view is now obstructed with development.
Ella Francis Craig Loveless
Lillie Belle Craig Starnes
Lucetta Settie Craig Neal Brumley
Stephen Douglas Craig
The picture my mother painted of her paternal grandmother was that of a corncob pipe smoking woman with a couple of mean geese who lived on a dusty farm in the desert. The image makes me laugh. It's as if Tempie was some sort of pint-sized Annie Oakley, spittin' snuff as well as bullets, with honking geese at her feet as guard dogs.
Tempie grew up in Kentucky, one of the daughters of Isaac Craig and Nancy Harmon. She married Thomas Neal when she was just 13 years old and had four children with him before he passed. She next married Abraham Burton in 1921 and had two more children, one of whom (Rebecca) died young. In 1943, Abe and Tempie made their way out West and settled in hot and dry Palmdale, CA.
She is buried next to her son, Ted, and his wife, Helen, in Green Hills Cemetery in Rancho Palos Verdes. Helen purchased the 3 plots after her husband passed and said she picked the location because there was a view of the ocean. That view is now obstructed with development.
Inscription
Beloved mother
Family Members
Parents
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Advertisement
