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- From The Cleburne News September 1921 found at http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/newspape471gnw.txt
Thursday September 29, 1921
Arbacoochee news:
Mr. John Henry Craft and MIss Marietta Dennis were joined together in
matrimony on Sunday, J.A. Loveless, Esq. performing the ceremony.
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Newspaper article in the issue of Wednesday, October 18, 1922 (Newhope News?)
TOM HUDDLESON KILLED SUNDAY IN NORTHERN PART OF COUNTY; Three Men Arrested
Wedowee, Oct. 16th
A sad tragedy occurred yesterday about 10 miles north of Wedowee in the
Charles Boyd community. Tom Huddleson, a young man and two others were passing
along the road and Huddleson was shot in the back and died at once. Late
yesterday evening, John Henry Craft, Grady Craft and Kara Haynes were brought
to Wedowee and placed in jail. I understand that Kara Haynes and Grady Kraft
have made a statement that John Henry Craft did the killing.
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From The Cleburne News, December 15, 1938 found at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/cleburne/newspapers/newspape1376gnw.txt
Henry Craft, age 40, of Arbacoochee, was fatally injured when he was struck by an automobile on the Bankhead Highway about five miles east of Oxford shortly after 4 o'clock this morning. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Garner Hospital. J.L. Kaylor of Gramah, the driver of the automobile was absolved of all blame following an investigation of the accident. The witnesses to the accident told the same story as to how it occurred. Craft had been in a taxi-cab with Lewis McCormick of south Anniston since about midnight. Leland Burt was the taxi
driver. Statements made by Burt and McCormick were the same, each stating that Craft got out of the taxi cab and while they waited for him to return, he stepped into the path of Kaylor's automobile. Craft's companions estimated the speed of Kaylor's car at 25 miles per hour, the same estimated by Kaylor, his daughter and companion L.B. Duke.The injured man was placed in the taxi-cab and Mr. Duke rode with the taxi to the hospital. Coroner Gray said that death was due to a fractured neck and a crushed chest.Funeral services for Craft were conducted at 2 o'clock in the Cedar Creek Baptist church in Cleburne county. Burial was in the church cemetery with Usrey of Anniston in charge. Surviving are the widow and two children, Charles and Bertha of Arbacoochee; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Craft of Anniston; three brothers, Grady
Craft of Atlanta; Munroe and Gross Craft of Anniston; two sisters, Mrs. Pearl Bentley and Mrs. Lily Campbell of Anniston. (The Cleburne News, Heflin, Cleburne County, Alabama, for DEC. 15th, 1938)
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From Alabama Deaths and Burials 1881-1974 found on Ancestry:
Name: John Henry Craft
Birth Date: abt 1899
Death Date: 7 Dec 1938
Death Place: Anniston , Calhoun, Alabama
Burial Date: 8 Dec 1938
Cemetery Name: Cedar Creek
Death Age: 39
Marital status: Married
Gender: Female (sic)
Father Name: J W Craft
Mother Name: Irva Key
Spouse Name: Mary Etta Dennis Craft
FHL Film Number: 1908571
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