Your posting did not have enough information to immediately seriously look for this person. If you have the date of birth, place of birth? Parents names? etc. that gives a big help to research.
The name you listed "Ella Craig (
Mckay), is
Mckay her maiden name? If so, do you have her middle name or husbands name? If it is a maiden name, the normal method of showing her name would be the maiden name in the middle, as "Ella (
Mckay) Craig". Or, "Ella Craig, nee:
Mckay".
After difficulties finding the correct person...
I find your family tree online.
Ella
Mckay, born 1857 in
Iowa to unidentified parents, married Samuel Craig in 1878. Two children, Claude Ernest Craig 1879-1957, and
Pansy Irene Craig, 1891 to 1979.
The 1892 census, enumerated 5 April, in
Garfield County, has S. Craig, age 37, born
Indiana, E.E. Craig 34, born
Iowa, C.E. 13, born
Kansas,
PII, age 1, born
Washington.
--I agree this appears to be the correct family.
Other info shows Samuel born Oct 1854 in
Illinois, died 1920 in
Leland,
Nez Perce County,
Idaho. Claude Ernest born 27 Oct 1879 in Clifton,
Kansas.
The last appearance of Ella was in 1892. I attempted to find her/her family in 1900 in an effort to narrow the years to find her death. Unless you have some specific information that identifies the date of her death, we're looking at 1892 (date of the census to ?). She was 34 in the 1892 census, far to young to die of old age. In many cases, the person is found living in later census. She could have died, she could have left the family, or the family left her.
Since Samuel was a farmer, I looked in the
Bureau of Land Management database of Homestead Act land patents
http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/in an attempt to locate any land he may have had in
Garfield County. No luck with him, but
Claud Craig obtained Homestead Act land in 1910 in
Nez Perce County,
Idaho. If you do not know where his land was located, repost and ask and I'll locate it for you.
--Claud Craig married Emma
Robbins on 10 Jun 1903 in
Leland,
Nez Perce County,
Idaho. So, if a newspaper announcement / article can be found, it might identify if his mother was still alive.
Cemetery transcriptions are pretty rare for finding them; and finding everyone in the cemetery. Even if the cemetery was transcribed, those that walk them, miss graves; stones are unreadible or missing. And, back in the 1890's, a lot of people had their own cemeteries on their own properties, forever lost today.
I can't find Samuel,
Claud, or
Pansy in the 1900 census. They may have been missed for one reason or another...