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Gravesites of "the MacIntyre's"
(The Craig Family)
Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY
Section O
(map)

   
On the west side the lake, the site from down the hill looking up, and up the hill looking down

      

Francis E Gatchel
Husband
Nov 3 1869
March 20, 1942
Alice Craig
Wife of F E Gatchel
Sept 27, 1881
March 8, 1909
Alice Craig
Wife of Austin L Peay
Born April 19, 1860
Died Dec 13, 1881
In Memory of
Aleck Craig
died Oct 7, 1868
Aged 53 years
Annie McCown Craig
Wife of Aleck Craig
Feb 11, 1834
Oct 20, 1914
Fannie Craig
Feb 9, 1859
Mar 14, 1933
    Sister to "Miss Allison,
Mrs. Walton & Aunt Elise"
(this would be the "grandfather MacIntyre") Grandmother MacIntyre Miss (Aunt) Allison

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               


The best landmark to use in finding the site is this Corinthian Temple monument (Bowles Family).
It is at the top of the hill near the circle, and the Craig/"MacIntyre" site is just behind it
and down the hill.  The National Cemetery is across the road, with sections for Union and Confederate fallen.

A few notes on this site:

The Craig family is well represented in the Little Colonel books.  But not completely.  Of this clan, as models for the characters, we can count Grandmother MacIntyre ( Annie McCown, or McGown Craig), Miss (or Aunt) Allison (Fannie Craig), Mrs. Walton (Mamie Craig) and her four children, and Aunt Elise (Louise Craig Culbertson) and her children, the Two Little Knights of Kentucky.  In addition, there were three brothers and another Craig sister that died years before the start of the Little Colonel stories: Alice. 

There's a poignant tragic-sweet story with that.  Alice Craig fell seriously ill in late in 1881.  Her sister, Mary (Mamie) was just recently engaged to be married to an army  Captain (later General) Henry Ware Lawton.  Because Alice sensed the end was near for her, she begged her sister to marry quickly so that she would be able to attend the wedding.  Mamie quickly sent a telegraph to Henry and he obtained leave and left for Louisville by special train.  This sad wedding took place on December 12, 1881 at Alice's death bed.  Alice died the next day.

Alice is buried next to her mother (Grandmother MacIntyre) and sister Fannie (Miss Allison). We're not sure who the other Alice is (born 1881), but guess this may have been Alice's daughter (?).  Also, there was another sibling to Fannie, Alice, Mary & Louise, a brother never mentioned in the Little Colonel stories, Harry.  By the time of the early books, he had already left home and was living in Louisville, working as a civil engineer.

Also, the relationships here in real life differ a bit from the fictionalized versions.  Starting with "Grandmother McIntyre" (modeled after Alice McCown Craig), who was in fact the maternal grandmother of the "Two Little Knights", and not the paternal grandmother as presented in the stories.

More from Census records:

1880
Annie Craig is listed with children Mamie, 25; Alexander 23; Fanny, 21; Alice, 19; Harry, 16; Louise, 14; and son Merton, 11.
(In the 1870 census, a 6 year old son is listed as "McCown", which was Annie Craig's maiden name. It is apparently Harry though we don't find him using "McCown" again in any other census.)
1900-1930
Merton was in Louisville working as a "US Gauger". In 1910 he was back with mother and siblings. Alexander and Harry were at home with Annie in 1900 and 1910 and were living with Fanny in 1920 and 1930. (at Edgewood)

 

Their Final Resting Places
(photos of the sites)

 

at Pewee Valley Cemetery, KY   at Oak Hill, Evansville, IN
Kate Matthews   Annie Fellows Johnston & Family

Summary Page

 

 

This Site:
Home Page   What's New?   Biography of Annie Fellows Johnston,   
Books on Line
  (Complete Original Little Colonel Book Series)
    The Little Colonel (link to U. Penn))
   
The Giant Scissors
    Two Little Knights of Kentucky
    The Little Colonel's House Party
    The Little Colonel's Holidays
    The Little Colonel's Hero
    The Little Colonel at Boarding-School
    The Little Colonel in Arizona
    The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation 
    The Little Colonel, Maid of Honor 
    The Little Colonel's Knight Comes Riding
 
    Mary Ware, The Little Colonel's Chum 
    Mary Ware in Texas  
    Mary Ware's Promised Land
          Check our home page for more titles by AFJ on other sites
The People & Characters:
The Little Colonel, Papa Jack and Mrs. Sherman,  The Old Colonel, Two Little Knights of Kentucky,  Two Little Knights of Kentucky(2), 
Uncle Sidney & Aunt Elise, parents of the Two Little Knights of Kentucky, Grandmother McIntyre, Aunt Allison, The Waltons, Rob and Anna Moore, Betty, Joyce Ware, Jack WareMom Beck, Walker, Katherine Marks, Gay Melville, The Lees of Arizona, Small Parts
Their Final Resting Places

The Places:
in Pewee (Lloydsboro) Valley: Map, Map 2, Where it all began, The Locust, The Beeches  Edgewood, The Little Colonel's Cottage, The Railroad Station, "Lloydsboro Seminary", Clovercroft, The Post Office, Churches, The Haunted House at Hartwell Hollow,  Confederate Home Rollington, Minor Places In Old Louisville: The Culbertson Mansion, "Home of a Hero" Elsewhere: The Cuckoo's Nest (Indiana), Lee's Ranch, Camelback Mountain & Hole-in-Rock (Arizona), 
San Antonio and The Little Town of Bauer (Boerne), Texas, The Gate of the Giant Scissors (France)
Letters from Annie Fellows Johnston and "Mrs Walton"  
Scrapbook

Links
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