Lebanon Indiana Library

The Lebanon Public Library apparantly has a vast amount of microfilm of old newspapers. Maybe about Craguns. Anyone able to research there?

Boone County Indiana

April 29, 2012:Boone County Indiana is where Patrick Cragun died. It seems he owned property there but was poor enough he didn't have to pay property taxes.

Two of his chldren died in Indiana: Lydia Cragun before 1820 per New Family Search and Isaac Cragun who died in 1855 in Harrison, Cass, Indiana. Isaac had 6 children all in Indiana.

This is the beginning of my research on Indiana with the exception of I found the Boone County Historical Society in the Cragun House once owned by Strange Nathaniel Cragun. I posted this article about the Cragun house on my family blog, click here for that.

This link, click here, takes you to the Cragun Organization website. details on the Patrick family, and some detail about his children are here.

Patrick Cragun: Find A Grave

The Following is on Find A Grave. The provider of this monument is Bart Fowers Cragun. I tried to reach him by email about a week ago and haven't heard back from him yet. Bart seems to be quite prolific in Find A Grave, which is noble of him.

I will post here only a portion of what Bart has posted and then a link to the memorial and full text. Below is the other links of family members of Patrick, also on Find A Grave.

Birth:  1745, Ireland Death:  unknown Whitestown Boone County Indiana, USA Versions of Patrick Cragun's migration to America vary. The first one, by Homer McCarty, was forwarded by letter 25 July 1962, by LUCY C. FOULGER (Mrs. WALTON E. FOULGER), to JEAN (CRAGUN) TOMBAUGH of Rochester, Ind.: "In Ireland Patrick Cragun's parents bound him out to a saddler for a number of years to learn the trade. Hearing much of that wonderful America to which so many people were going, Pat became obsessed with the desire to go there too. Without saying anything to his parents or his boss, he left the work bench and made his way to the sea. Fortunately a ship ready to sail for America lay anchored in the harbor.

Click this for the memorial of and full article about Patrick Cragun

Family links:
 Parents:
  Caleb Cragun

 Spouses:
  Rose Mary Abbey Cragun
  Hannah Elsy Cragun (1752 - ____)

 Children:
  Isaac Craigan (1785 - ____)*
  Elisha Cragun (1786 - 1847)*
  John Cragon (1787 - ____)*
  Tyresha Cragun (1789 - ____)*
  Lydia Cragun (1791 - ____)*
  Tabitha Cragun (1793 - ____)*
  Hannah Cragun (1795 - ____)*
  Caleb Cragun (1796 - ____)*
  Joshua Cragun (1796 - 1874)*
  Elizabeth Cragun (1799 - ____)*
  Syren Cragun (1801 - ____)*