Person:Elijah Craig (8)

Capt. Elijah Craig

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Name	Capt. Elijah Craig
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	1764	Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States
Death^[1]	12 Nov 1813	Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States
Burial^[2]		Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States
Other^[2]		Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, Franklin, Kentucky, United Statescommemorated on Kentucky's Fallen Soldier Memorial

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source).

Elijah Craig (presumably named after his uncle Rev. Elijah Craig) became a captain in the army and served in the War of 1812. He participated in the Thames campaign to put down Shawnee Indian Tecumseh's cultic, racist supremacist war. Wounded slightly in the shoulder in action against Tecumseh on 4 Oct 1813, Capt. Elijah Craig died of his wounds on 14 Oct 1813, but not after having loaded the pistol that Col. Johnson used to slay the Hitlerian Tecumseh in the Battle of the Thames on 5 Oct 1813.

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/40029700/person/19443159981
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 145332136, in Find A Grave
includes photos, last accessed Apr 2024.

Captain Craig was wounded during the Battle of the River Thames near Thamesville and Moraviatown Ontario on 5-Oct-1813. About a week later he died from his wounds and was supposedly buried in Detroit. He is commemorated on Kentucky's Fallen Soldier Memorial as one of two who died as a result of the Thames battle.

Some remains from the War of 1812 were rumored to have been moved from Michigan to the memorial, but no records of the move have been found.