Preston Jones Craft (1918 - 2002)

Born 31 May 1918 in Clay, Kentucky, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Lillian Reathal (Vanoy) Craft — married 19 Dec 1940 in Somerset, Pulaski, Kentucky, United States

Died 13 Jun 2002 at age 84 in Manchester, Clay County, Kentucky

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Abby Vanoy [send private message]

Biography

Preston Jones Craft was born 31 May, 1918 in Clay County, Kentucky. He passed away on 13 June, 2002 in Clay County, Kentucky.^[1]

In his birth record in 1918, we find that his mother was named Sarah Hensley.^[2]

In the census of 1920, ‘’’Preston Jones Craft’’’ is shown living with his family in Clay county, Kentucky, and is one year old. His father, Russell Craft, was 26 years of age and was a farmer. Mother, Sarah Craft was 22, and older sister, “Pinia,” (Vina) was age 5.^[3]

The census of 1930 shows that Preston’s mother Sarah had remarried one Perry Roark, indicating Preston’s father had either passed away or gotten divorced between 1920 and 1930. Also in the home are three Roark children, and siblings Vina, Preston and Owen, ages 16, 11, and 9, respectively.^[4]

The census of 1940 shows the large family now living with Perry Roark, Preston’s step father in Clay county. There is now Preston, age 20, Owen age 18, and a jockey (horse), Lou, 15 YO daughter, Alvin 13, Bob 11, Johnnie 9, Mary 9, Etta 6 and Mattie 7 months.^[5]

Another census of 1940 shows Preston, 21, living with his grandmother, Mary Jane, and an aunt, with the name written Craft by the census taker age 43, and an uncle, Gilbert.^[6]

Love found Preston when he married Lilian Vanoy in Pulaski County on December 19, 1940.

Preston passed away on 13 June 2002^[7]and is buried at Manchester Memorial Gardens in Manchester, Kentucky.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6MKK-CP3Z : 17 December 2020), Preston Jones Craft, ; Burial, Manchester, Clay, Kentucky, United States of America, Manchester Memorial Gardens; citing record ID 215302935, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
2. ↑ "Kentucky, Vital Record Indexes, 1911-1999," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKHP-VNCQ : 11 February 2018), Preston J Craft, 31 May 1918; citing Birth, Clay, Kentucky, United States, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHLM-LN5 : 1 February 2021), Preston Craft in entry for Russell Craft, 1920
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XM6H-XF2 : accessed 30 December 2021), Preston Craft in household of Perry Roark, District 1, Clay, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1, sheet 4B, line 95, family 84, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 741; FHL microfilm 2,340,476
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7RX-F73 : 9 January 2021), Preston Croft in household of Perry Rorark, Magisterial District 1, Clay, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 26-2, sheet 13A, line 8, family 186, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1296.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7RX-LCT : 9 January 2021), Preston Craft in household of Nancy Jane Craft, Magisterial District 2, Clay, Kentucky, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 26-5, sheet 15B, line 59, family 222, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1296.
7. ↑ "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JL4C-86V : 9 January 2021), Preston J Craft, 13 Jun 2002; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
8. ↑ "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6MKK-CP3Z : 17 December 2020), Preston Jones Craft, ; Burial, Manchester, Clay, Kentucky, United States of America, Manchester Memorial Gardens; citing record ID 215302935, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.