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taken from The History of Vinita Oklahoma

found a history of the Vinita Oklahoma which carrys a story about one of my GGGUncles for whom Craig County was named after: Naming of Craig County When counties were created with the adoption of a Constitution for the new State of Oklahoma, the area in which Vinita was located became Craig County. The county was named for Granville C. Craig, prominent early-day farmer and stockman of Indian Territory and pioneer of the Welch area.l He was the son of Samuel Craig and Eliza J. Harlin Craig. She was one- eighth Cherokee Indian and a descendant of the Ward family of Cherokees. (my note: this is the Nancy Ward line; Bryant Wards son also married into the Cherokees and his line is known as the Missionary Ward line) Samuel Craig moved west with the Cherokees with the large emigration from East Tennessee to the Indian Territory in 1838 and settled on Honey Creek, a few miles south of what is now Grove. The following year, 1839, saw the feud between the Treaty and the Anti-Treaty partie