Caleb Cragun Family, England Ireland America

CALEB CRAGUN (first gen.)

b.ca. 1700, Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England

d. (unkn)

He resided near the home of Oliver Cromwell. Caleb Cragun moved to Ireland where he married an "Irish lady". They had a son PATRICK CRAGUN.

PATRICK CRAGUN (second gen.)

b.ca. 1743/45, in Northern Ireland.

d. (date unkn), in Va. Tradition tells that some years later his remains were brought to Indiana, and reburied near Whitestown in Boone Co., in a field of a farm near ENOCH CRAGUN, Sr.'s old farm.

JOHNATHAN O. Q. CRAGUN wrote (date unkn) "Our great grandfather PATRICK CRAGUN is buried near Whitestown, Ind. I saw where he was buried some five years ago while I was in Indiana."

Some descendants of Enoch Cragun (son of ELISHA CRAGUN, 1786) stated that they had visited a cemetery at Whitestown, Indiana, and had seen the graves of Patrick Cragun & his son, Elisha Cragun. They said that the cemetery had no name and is in the church yard there.[1]

A trip was made to Whitestown, Ind., in Aug. 1964, by JEAN CRAGUN TOMBAUGH of Rochester, Ind., and a search of four graveyards was made. There were many Cragun graves, but none for our Patrick Cragun. Many were found that were impossible to read, and many that were broken off and the inscription missing. Only one cemetery had no name, and appeared to be very old indeed. It was just off the road enclosed with wire fence. I believe the twp is Eagle twp, and the cemetery is located about two miles south of Whitestown, on the left (east) side after crossing a small bridge. There was no church, although there might have been one originally.