Son of James Arthur McCaig and Ora Lee Hughes McCaig.

Brother of Horace Edward McCaig (1914-1983), Annie Mae McCaig Holland (1916-2003), Audrey Estelle McCaig McCollum Black (1919-2002), Lena Ozell McCaig Justus (1921-2017), James Buford McCaig (1923-1980), Grace McCaig Smith (1925-2013), and Rogers E. McCaig (1935-2009).

CHARLES T. McCAIG, 82, of Memphis, retired employee of Ellis-Navajo Trucking Co., died of heart failure Monday at Saint Francis Hospital. Graveside services will be at 9 a.m. Thursday in West Tennessee Veterans Cemetery. Bartlett Funeral Home Family Heritage Chapel has charge. He was a World War II veteran and a Teamsters Union member. Mr. McCaig leaves four sisters, Estelle Black, Lena Justus, Grace Smith and Ann Holland, all of Memphis, and a brother, Rogers McCaig of New York. (Published in The Commercial Appeal 5/10/2000.)

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This dog tag belonging to Charles McCaig was found in Italy in May of 2007 by a most kind researcher. He generously sent us a picture and allowed us to share it with others. The note he sent with the picture read:

"Dear Carole, It's very nice to read from you. My name is Silvio Passalalpi, I live in Genoa in the north-west of Italy. One of my hobbies is searching for old objects with a metal detector. I started this hobby many years ago. I leave in Genoa but the field of my research is in Tuscany. That's due to my mother's in law. She born in Villamagna, a little village in the Tuscany country, close to Volterra. She still have a house in Villamagna, so sometime, my wife and I, use to spend sometime there. In those places more than 60th years ago the war was very hard. I was born in 1948 so obviously I don't remember what happened in those places during the WW2, so I like to ask to old people in Villamagna to know where American soldiers use to live and rest. Recently, searching in a wood very close to the little village of Villamagna, for the first time in my life I found a dog-tag (military medal). It belonged to the soldier Charles McCaig. Fortunately now I know that Charles didn't die in Italy and that he returned in U.S.A. I'm sorry I couldn't explain you what are my feeling when I find objects belonged to U.S. Army (english is very hard to me). Often I find: razor, tube of shave-foam, uniform's button, collar disk, coffee bags, bullets, belts... it seems that U.S. soldiers are still there. I'm not crazy, I know that all this belong to the past... but it's so nice to think at them as they were still there. I would like to send you the picture of Charles Trevis's dog-tag but I don't know how. That's all for the moment. Please, if something sound wrong to your ears, think that english is not my mother language. Forgive me! A friendly CIAO Silvio" /s/ Silvio Passalalpi

Silvio did send the picture of the dog-tag that he found and we have posted it here. We will always be grateful to him for his generosity! Chet & Carole McCaig