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Lieut, Col. Theodore Gaillard Croft, M. D., was born at Greenville, S. C., July 10, 1845, and died at Columbia Hospital, South Carolina, March 11, 1915. He was of English and French (Huguenot) ancestry who were among the early settlers of South Carolina. His people were prominent in the political, professional, and military life of the State. As a youth he attended Pierce's School, a noted institution of his birthplace, Furman University, the Citidel, both high-grade institutions of learning of his State, and the Univesity of Virginia. Dr. Croft was an ardent Confederate, serving first from 1861 to 1862 as a sergeant in the 16th Regiment of Infantry Volunteers from South Carolina, and afterwards, to the end of the war, he was connected with the State Military Academy. He was a charter member of Barnard E. Bee Camp, No. 84, U. C. V., anf at his death he was a member of the South Carolina Division, U. C. V., staff as Surgeon-General. He had three brothers in the service of the Southern Confederacy-Lieut, Randell Croft, of the 1st Regiment of Confederate Artillery; Lieut Col. Edward Croft, of the 14th Regiment South Carolina Volunteer Infantry; and George W. Croft, of the Citadel Cadets. Dr. Croft began his professional career by graduating as valedictorian of his class from the Medical College of South Carolina in 1875 and located in Aiken. S. C. He was for years a trustee of his Alma Mater, and at his death he had just succeeded himself for another term. He was surgeon of the First Regiment of South Carolina State Troops and local surgeon of the Southern Railway and served as a member of the State Board of Medical Examiners. He was a member of Aiken County Medical Society, the District Medical Association, the Tri-State Medical Association, the State Medical Society, of which he had been President, and the Association of Surgeons of the Southern RRailway, As a physician and surgeon he was held in the highest esteem by his professional brethren of the State and beloved by his clientele. Dr. Croft was twice married, first to Miss Mary Ella Chafee and next to Miss Estelle Allison, who survives him with four shildren of the first marriage-George W. Croft, an attorney at law, T. G. Craft, Jr., who follows in his father's footsteps as a physician, Mrs. T. G. Croft, and Miss Ella Croft. The State and his home town have sustained and irreparable loss in the death of this eminent citizen and most worthy physician, the memory of whom will remain fresh in the sympathetic minds of all who knew him and will be tenderly cherished in the hearts of many who had been recipients of his kind and skillful ministrations.
SOURCE: Confederate Veteran Magazine, August, 1915.
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