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Margaret <I>Craig</I> Dryden

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Margaret Craig Dryden

Birth
Washington County, Virginia, USA
Death
1878 (aged 84–85)
High Hill, Montgomery County, Missouri, USA
Burial
High Hill, Montgomery County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
Plot
Shared stone with her husband, Nathaniel Dryden and buried on the old Dryden family farm.
Memorial ID
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Per ancestry.com: Margaret Craig was born on January 19, 1793 in Washington County, Virginia to Robert Craig, who was a son of a revolutionary war soldier and with no listing of her mother's name etc. Margaret married Nathaniel Dryden on September 13, 1811, after his first wife died in 1805.

Nathaniel and Margaret had thirteen children:

Frederick Hambeleton wed Catherine E. Sharp
John Debose Sharpe wed Sarah Miller Winchell
Eleanor Eliza wed Captain James Singleton
Mary Russell with no listing of marriage
Thomas Alpheus wed Margaret Gordon
Jane R. Feb. 16, 1823-before 1840
Louisa W. June 25, 1825-no listing
Margaret Dec. 14, 1826-before 1840
David Campbell wed Belle J. Hutton
Caroline Nancy wed Nathaniel Hoss
Leonidas Jonathan-twin wed Sarah Houston
Robert Craig-twin Dec. 31, 1835-about 1860
William Patton 1 wed Elizabeth Jones
2 wed Agnes S.M. Davenport

Per the 1850 U.S. Federal Census: Margaret Dryden was 55 years of age, born about 1795 and was born in the State of Virginia.
Per ancestry.com: Margaret Craig was born on January 19, 1793 in Washington County, Virginia to Robert Craig, who was a son of a revolutionary war soldier and with no listing of her mother's name etc. Margaret married Nathaniel Dryden on September 13, 1811, after his first wife died in 1805.

Nathaniel and Margaret had thirteen children:

Frederick Hambeleton wed Catherine E. Sharp
John Debose Sharpe wed Sarah Miller Winchell
Eleanor Eliza wed Captain James Singleton
Mary Russell with no listing of marriage
Thomas Alpheus wed Margaret Gordon
Jane R. Feb. 16, 1823-before 1840
Louisa W. June 25, 1825-no listing
Margaret Dec. 14, 1826-before 1840
David Campbell wed Belle J. Hutton
Caroline Nancy wed Nathaniel Hoss
Leonidas Jonathan-twin wed Sarah Houston
Robert Craig-twin Dec. 31, 1835-about 1860
William Patton 1 wed Elizabeth Jones
2 wed Agnes S.M. Davenport

Per the 1850 U.S. Federal Census: Margaret Dryden was 55 years of age, born about 1795 and was born in the State of Virginia.

Inscription

In Memory Of
Nathaniel Dryden 1781-1858
Margaret Craig 1793-1878
__________________________
And Their Descendants
__________________________
Right side of stone is a
poem:

If we be dead
With Him we
Shall also
Live with Him



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