6. Craft and Kinloch Families, 1767-2007

Ellen Smith Craft (1826-1897) and William Craft (1823-1900) escaped from slavery in Georgia, and eventually made their way to England. In 1860, William Craft published the story of their escape in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery.

Their daughter, Ellen A. Craft Crum (born 1861), married William Demos Crum (1859-1912) in 1883. In 1902, Crum was appointed Collectors of Customs in Charleston, South Carolina, which was opposed by the Senate until his confirmation in 1905. He resigned in 1909.

Ellen Smith Craft and William Craft also had a son, Charles Estlin Phillips Craft (1852-1938). Charles, a railway postal clerk, married Emeline Aubin Kinloch (1854-1944), a seamstress from Charleston.

This semestress, Emeline Kinloch Craft, was the daughter of Benjamin Kinloch (1819-1884), a millwright, and Emeline Aubin Kinloch (1824-1884), from Charleston, South Carolina. Benjamin Kinloch's father was Richmond Kincoch (1794-1851) and his grandfather was Francis Kinloch.

The daughter of Charles Craft and Emeline Kinloch Craft, Julia Craft DeCosta (1898-1990), was a 1915 Avery Institute graduate and educator at Burke High School. She married Herbert A. DeCosta, Sr., and served as bookkeeper, secretary, and finally treasurer for the H. A. DeCosta Construction Company for 56 years.