Son of Lt. David Ramsey Craig, Sr. and Nancy Jane Means. He remained in Curllsville with his grandfather and aunts when his parents moved to Iowa/Minnesota. Harry never married. He was the church organist for the Licking Presbyterian church at Curllsville.

Means deeded to cousin Harry Clay Craig the family burial plot on the Means property in 1932 and a stone wall was put around the cemetery. When Harry died in 1941, he left $500 in his will to the Citizens Trust Company of Clarion to be held in trust forever and the net income to be used for the maintenance of the cemetery. Harry was the last to be buried in the plot.

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30 Mar 1939 Brainerd Daily Dispatch, Brainerd, MN
AROUND THE TOWN
Jim Davis came into the office the other day to show us a couple of old YMCA membership cards. One was issued to Harry C. Craig, now a resident of Curllsville, Pa., issued March 16, 1889. The other is the property of H.H. Mandell, now of Cleveland, Ohio, and is dated March, 1891. In a letter written to Mr. Davis, Mr. Mandell says that in looking over his diary he notices an entry for the year 1888 which mentions purchase of a membership in the Brainerd organization, but he was unable to find the card. Mr. Mandell left Brainerd 47 years ago and was back here for the first visit in 45 years two years ago. Mr. Craig, in his letter to Mr. Davis, includes with his membership card a time-yellowed, dog-eared program of a musical presentation given by the YMCA Glee club, known in the slang of that day as the "Razzle Dazzle." Both of the cards are signed by A.C. Van Campen as secretary. Van Campen was the second secretary of the YMCA here. The first secretary was a man by the name of Allen.

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Clarion County Centennial
Aug 26 - Sept 2, 1940
1840-1940 Clarion County Centennial Celebration
"In 1859, at the age of three, Mr. H.C. Craig, who was one of a family of thirteen, came to Curllsville to make his home with his grandfather, Major Means. He still resides near Curllsville."

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From Michael McClure:

Harry remained at Curllsville, Pennsylvania with his grandfather and aunts when his parents moved to Iowa. He continued to reside there until his death. He did not marry. Harry kept in touch with all the branched of the family and some excerpt from some of the letters follows:

May 21, 1913

Dear Mother,

The sun is too hot for me to be out in it very long at a time so I will do a little writing while I am enjoying the shade. It has been very cool with light frosts in the mornings. Something more than a week ago we had three freezing mornings in succession. Hay is quaoted at $6 a ton and market at that price. We have several tons to get rid of before we can put any new hay in the barn. I hope you have found a girl by this time and that she is a good one. And I hope you will get the visit from Loretta. I am sorry to hear about Charley's move, but I hope it will be for the best.

Harry Means, Edna, Sara, and Sally Rodgers paid us a call. Mrs. George Means (Emma) spent most of the winter with Mabel Thompson Moffett (John Thompson's daughter) and came home so worn out that she is now in a sanatarium in Punxsatawney taking a rest cure. I am not sure if I told you about Thos. L. Rankin's death...We are clearing some ground on the old ore bank dump for a buckwheat field and having it partly plowed. Arthur is burning brush there this afternoon. Do you remember the potatoes I brought from Brainerd? I planted them last year and got about a peck of seed potatoes which I planted again this spring. Aunt Emily went out to the field and dropped potatoes for us for a little while, so you see she is feeling pretty well....

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In 1928, Harry and his brother David took a trip to Philadelphia. He wrote to his brother Charlie about the trip:

Dear Charlie,

It's about a month since we got your letter so I suppose I might begin to answer it. We had a letter from Jim a few days ago, the first in several months, enclosing one from Patty dated March 15th. She refers to Andy's very serious illness----the first we knew of it----your letter did not intimate that there was anything serious, and no doubt your information is later than this letter of Patty's.

We are in usual health; not very strong but moving around. Dave talks of going west, wherever that is, later on but do not know what his plans are. He wanted to go to Philadelphia to see his pension boss, so I took him in the carm following nearly as possible, the route traveled by grandfather and grandmother in 1857, when they drove the two horses in the buggy. We made a slight detour to stop at State College to visit two of the cow testing boys who are students there. Picked up the trail at Center Hall and followed it to Lewisburg, Danville, Bloomsburg, and Pottsville to Reading. From there we went to Valley Forge instead of to Brandywine Manor as the other folks did, but we picked the Manor up on our way back, staying overnight with the McClures who live in the Ancestral home. We only had two and one half hours in Philadelphia, which was hardly long enough as it is a rather large place. The grandparents headed for Mifflin County and on the way back, so did we, but we left the trail at Lebanon and followed the Wm. Penn Highway as the other route was over dirt raods and no bridge over the Susquehanna where they crossed. At Lebanon, we called on mother's cousin, Wm. Means. He was not at home, but we found his son, Dr. Horace Means, very pleasant. We stopped in Mifflin County overnight with Mrs. Sarah Means Reed. Were gone from Monday morning until Saturday evening, traveled 800 miles, used 40 gallons of gas, and did not have the slightest mishap. The road was ideal except through the hard coal region from Bloomsburg to Pottsville where we had some dirt road, but not at all bad. I did not intend to go so far when we started, did not think I could stand it, but the further I drove the better I felt so I went clear through, and then, of course, I had to come back.

We had fine summer weather through April, but May has been very cold and unpleasent; no real freezing but very chilly and rainy. We are hoping that it will clear up and warm up someday. I began a letter to Nancy weeks ago and the house-cleaners and paper hangers came and I had to hustle everything into the corners and I haven't got the things back to place yet; when I do, I will finish the letter.

I hope that this letter will find everyone well and happy.

Harry C. Craig.


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Jefferson-Democrat (Brookville, PA) - Mar 27, 1941 - WELL KNOWN CLARION COUNTY MAN, KNOWN HERE, DIED TUESDAY - Harry C. Craig, 85, Curllsville, died in Brookville hospital at 4:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, March 25, following a lingering illness. He had been a patient there since September 8, 1940. He was born March 16, 1865, in Reidsburg, Clarion county, and spent most of his life there. He was a son of David Ramsay and Nancy Jane Means Craig, pioneer Clarion county resident. After attending the Reidsburg schools and graduating from Carrier Seminary, Clarion, he became a telegraph operator for the Western Union in Clarion. In 1880 he went out west as a telegraph operator for the Northern Pacific Railroad in Bismark, N.D., and Brainerd, Minn. Returning to Pennsylvania he settled on the homestead of the late George Means at Curllsville. His mother had been a direct descendant of Major Robert Means, a Revolutionary War veteran. At Curllsville he was engaged in the life insurance business for many years and took an active part in county and civic affairs, serving as chairman of the Clarion County Chapter of the American Red Cross and also as county jury commissioner. He was widely known throughout the county and also in this community, where he had relatives in the Corbett, Anderson and Means families. He was a member of the Licking Presbyterian church at Churchville and had been a leader of the choir for many years. Surviving is a brother, Charles E.M. Craig, Chemainus, British Columbia, Canada, who is now visiting Dr. George Means, Brookville. Friends will be received at the C.B. Stewart funeral home, Rimersburg, until 2:30 o'clock this afternoon when funeral services will be held in the Licking church. Interment will be in the Means family plot on his farm.