

Reverend Alexander Craighead

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Name Alexander Craighead [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8] Title Reverend Birth 18 Mar 1705 Donegal, Ireland [1, 7, 8]
Gender Male Occupation Between 1758 and 1766 Sugar Creek, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, USA [3]
1st Minister of Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Church Will 9 Apr 1765 Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA [3, 9]
LW&T Burial 1766 Sugar Creek, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, USA [1, 5, 8]
- Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Church; Burial Ground # 1
Death 12 Mar 1766 Sugar Creek, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, USA [1, 7, 8]
Person ID I24817 MontyHistNotes_2014 Last Modified 8 Oct 2025
Father Thomas Craighead, b. 1664, Londonderry, Northern Ireland d. 26 Apr 1739, Newville, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, USA
(Age 75 years)
Relationship natural Mother Margaret Wallace Holmes, b. 1664, White Clay Creek, Delaware, USA d. 1738, White Clay Creek, Delaware, USA
(Age 74 years)
Relationship natural Family ID F6359 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Agnes Brown, b. 1710, Ireland d. 1784, Sugar Creek, Mecklenburg, North Carolina, USA
(Age 74 years)
Marriage 1734 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA Children + 1. Nancy Agnes Craighead, b. 17 Mar 1737, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 9 Nov 1790, Washington, Tennessee, USA
(Age 53 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
> 2. Margaret Craighead, b. 1738, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA d. 1781, Kershaw, Lancaster, South Carolina, USA
(Age 43 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
+ 3. Rachel Brown Craighead, b. 1739, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 12 Jun 1825, Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina, USA
(Age 86 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
> 4. Jean Craighead, b. 1742, North Carolina, USA d. 10 Sep 1766, Abbeville, South Carolina, USA
(Age 24 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
> 5. Mary Craighead, b. 1745, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA d. 1769, Lancaster County, South Carolina, USA
(Age 24 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
+ 6. Thomas Brown Craighead, b. 1750, Augusta, Virginia, USA d. 11 Sep 1824, Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
(Age 74 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
> 7. Robert Craighead, b. 27 Jun 1751, Augusta, Virginia, USA d. 7 May 1821, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, USA
(Age 69 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
+ 8. Elizabeth Craighead, b. 1752, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA d. 1825, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA
(Age 73 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]
Family ID F6058 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 8 Oct 2025
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Event Map Birth - 18 Mar 1705 - Donegal, Ireland Marriage - 1734 - Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA Will - LW&T - 9 Apr 1765 - Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, USA = Link to Google Earth
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Headstones Craighead, Alexander (1705-1766)
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=48873&GRid=11723446&
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Sources - [S95] Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Cemetery, (Name: Location: Sugaw Creek, Mecklenburg, North Carolina;;), http://www.cmstory.org/cemetery/burialrecords.asp?id=166 This website has drill-down with more detail on each individual http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GScid=48873&GRid=42225274&CRid=48873&.
Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Church
101 Sugar Creek Rd. W.
Charlotte, NC 28213
704-596-4466 - [S614] Armstrong, Zella, Notable Southern Families, (Name: Name: Lookout Publishing Company; Location: Chattanooga, TN; Date:1922;;), Volume II Available on Genealogical.com Disk GPC 7191 Also available on ancestry.com also outlined: http://www.palmspringsbum.org/genealogy/showsource.php?sourceID=S484&tree=Legends Notable_Southern_Families.pdf Montgomery Section starts on page 241.
- [S629] McGeachy, Neill Roderick, History of Sugaw Creek Church, (Name: Name: Record Print Co; Location: Rock Hill, SC; Date: 1954;;), "A History of the Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Church", Montgomery landtransactions discussed pages 45-46.
- [S796] Williams, Ann, Dr David Caldwell, Physician/Farmer, (Name: Name: OMGS Quarterly, Vol 29, No 1; Location: Charlotte, Mecklenburg,NC; Date: 2010;;), Article about Dr Caldwell and a list of his transactions journals andpatients.
- [S1874] Kiser, Ralph, The Cemetery Lists, (Name: Location: Sugar Creek, Mecklenburg, North Carolina; Date: 17 Jan 1973;;), List of burials at Sugaw Creek #1 and Sugaw Creek #2. Book found inCharlotte library. More detail is located in source for Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
- [S1974] Foote, William Henry, Rev, Sketches of North Carolina, (Name: Name: Robert Carter; Location: New York; Date: 1846;;), Sketches_of_North_Carolina.pdf.
- [S1841] Ancestry.com, SAR Application, (Name: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations,Inc., 2011.Original data - Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls;;), Database online.
Record for Reverend Alexander Craighead - [S1752] Ancestry.com, Web: North Carolina, Find A Grave Index, 1729-2011, (Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date:2012;;), Database online.
Record for Alexander Craighead - [S580] Holcomb, Brent H, Abstracts of Early Wills, (Name: Name: Cleafield; Location: Baltimore, MD; Date: 1980;;), This book gives abstracts of wills that were recorded in Mecklenburg,NC, between 1763 and 1790.
- [S95] Sugaw Creek Presbyterian Cemetery, (Name: Location: Sugaw Creek, Mecklenburg, North Carolina;;), http://www.cmstory.org/cemetery/burialrecords.asp?id=166 This website has drill-down with more detail on each individual http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GScid=48873&GRid=42225274&CRid=48873&.