James
Columbus
"Jim"
Craft
Born in Lewisville, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States
Ancestors 
Brother of
Virginia Ann (Craft) Doub, Mary Jane (Craft) Wilson, Elizabeth (Craft) Fowler and George Henry Craft
Husband of
Lillie Elizabeth (Doub) Craft
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Pearl Elizabeth (Craft) Miller, James Henry Craft I, Arthur Eugene Craft, Anna Blanche Craft, Martha Lucinda (Craft) Lasley, Winburn Fletcher Craft I, Spencer Theodore Craft I, Lillian Estelle (Craft) Stoltz, Paul Webster Craft and Wenella Lucille Craft
Died
at age 70
in Lewisville, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 2 Apr 2021
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Biography
James was born in 1865. He passed away in 1936. He was a farmer and owned a small farm between Lewisville and Harmony Grove, Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA.. [1]
Sources
- ↑ Personal recollection of events witnessed by June Craft as remembered 2 Apr 2021.
James ("Jim") Columbus Craft was born and died 1865-09-25 to 1936-05-31 and was mentioned in census collections at Lewisville, Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA in 1870,1880, 1890, 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930.
James Craft wed in Forsyth County, NC, USA 1887-12-29 Lillie Elizabeth Doub 1868--01-26 to 1950-05-15. They had ten living children. Three did not live to be adults and died young without issue.Their 7th child, third son, was Winburn F. Craft I, my father, 1902-08-10 to 1972-02-27 .
James Craft was buried in Lewisville in the graveyard of Lewisville Methodist Church, Forsyth County, North Carolina, USA. There is a gravestone there marking the burial site for him and his wife Lillie Elizabeth Doub 1868--01-26 to 1950-05-15. wed Craft
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June (Craft) Israel
The day of the funeral I smelled the scent of many flowers decaying in the summer heat and for the first time viewed a corpse, my grandfather dressed in his black suit, cold face with embalmed makeup, I grasped the idea though I had no words for it. Something living was gone forever. My father was outside the farmhouse collapsed between his two sisters like a pieta, and I accompanied my mother to the church, we sat in a pew while my black-clad grandmother was supported by her sons and my older male cousins carried the coffin. My mother wept, which I had never seen before, and I clutched the hem of my cotton dress which had a print of little green apples, and asked my mother why she was crying. She did not reply.
posted 26 Jul 2021 by June (Craft) Israel
[thank June]
That night my parents and my sleeping sisters and I were taken in the car to Grandparent's farmhouse and age 5, I accompanied my parents into the room where my grandfather lay dying. I heard what I later learned was called a 'death rattle.' My father was deeply upset, he was closely attached to him because they had built a house together and they had an recent argument where he asked his father to let him do the work of woodchopping, but his father insisted that "it is MY life" and the old man died that night while my father tried to breathe life back into him. (There was no medical care available.) Bizarre, I remember going through the dark later with my mother along the path to my aunt's next door where she had just lost a baby.
posted 26 Jul 2021 by June (Craft) Israel
[thank June]
A few weeks earlier, grandpa was chopping wood outside the woodshed next to the farmhouse, watched by two toddler grandsons, Glenn Lasley and S.T. Craft, Jr. {Glenn's family lived across the road, and S.T."s family lived 200 yards away next door} . The old man had a stroke and fell over. Glenn ran to the house for grandma. Age 4, he remembered the event clearly.
posted 26 Jul 2021 by June (Craft) Israel
[thank June]
Grandpa Jim was a portly old man who wore a black three-piece suit with a gold watch chain stretched across his chest. He would bound out of the farmhouse when we drove up and he would carry pennies for the youngest children. He came to visit our family in early May 1937 to view our newly born baby sister, Patsy. He was sitting in a Windsor rocker when the chair fell over and my toddler sister Margie and I watched open-mouthed while all the aunts ran in from the kitchen, like a flock of hens, clucking, and picked the old man up.
posted 26 Jul 2021 by June (Craft) Israel
[thank June]
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My grandfather and my father were employed by Pearl Craft Miller to build a summer house on Shallowford Road in Lewisville, North Carolina. During the construction, one of them made a mistake and read blueprint wrong, so rooms were smaller than intended. In the event Pearl died 1938, and eventually Ray and Mattie Craft Lasley owned the house after financial troubles caused loss of their new house across the road from my grandparents. Mattie’s granddaughter Dawn Lasley was the owner after that and the latest 2023 information from North Carolina is the house was recently sold.
Grandpa Jim started a family reunion for the Craft family and relatives near the time when I was born, 1931. It had already been a custom in the 1920's to have a reunion of the children and descendants of Margaret JERUSHA (Casey) Craft, the mother of James Craft, on her birthday in June. Originally, the reunion was held on the birthday of James Craft in September, but the college students begged to have the date changed to summertime so that they could attend.
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