Peter T. Krag

1806 - 1871  (64 years)

• Name	Peter T. Krag  [1, 2]
  Birth	11 Dec 1806	Jutland, Denmark   [3, 4, 5, 6]
  Gender	Male
  Death	7 Dec 1871  [7]
  Burial	Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio   [7]
  Person ID	I8734	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	11 Dec 2020

  
  

  Family	Mary Kraus,   b. 21 Jan 1821, Detwiler, Alsace, France d. 6 Jun 1896 (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	29 Apr 1841	Franklin County, Ohio   [8]
  Children	1. Charles James Krag,   b. 17 Sep 1856, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio d. 11 Jun 1932, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F6885	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Nov 2020

  
  

• Notes

  His birth date is derived from his gravestone, which says he died 7 Dec 1871 aged "64y 11m 27d". He arrived at New York on 7 Oct 1839 on the Francis out of Amsterdam. This does not seem to have been primarily a passenger vessel; the arrival documents list only two other passengers. He is described as a merchant from Denmark, age 33 years 2 months. Note that this would place his birth in August 1806 rather than December. The ancestry.com database of abstracts of arrival records "New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Immigration Lists, 1820-1850" gives the same information as the above, except that the vessel is called the Barque Francis. He was naturalized a US citizen in Fairfield County, Ohio on 30 Oct 1844. He applied for a passport on 20 Mar 1850. The application says that he had been a merchant in Ohio for twelve years and a naturalized US citizen for four. Both of these numbers are slightly off — as shown above, he can't have been in Ohio for twelve years when he arrived in the US only eleven years earlier. And he had been a US citizen for about six years, not four. He was appointed postmaster of Canal Winchester in Franklin County, Ohio on 14 Apr 1854.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5174] Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, on ancestry.com. [S4761] Columbus, Ohio, Green Lawn Cemetery Index, 1780-2010, on ancestry.com. [S4762] Find a Grave page for Peter T Krag., date only. [S4021] 1910 United States Federal census, on ancestry.com., place only. [S5110] Research notes of John W. Klages, held by EK., date and country only. [S5113] "Concerning the Krag Family" by C. J. Krag. Columbus, Ohio, 1931., year and place only. [S4762] Find a Grave page for Peter T Krag. [S2849] Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993, on ancestry.com.