Reverend Alexander Craighead

1705 - 1766  (60 years)

• 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

  
  

• 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

  
  

• Headstones

  Craighead, Alexander (1705-1766) http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GScid=48873&GRid=11723446&

  
  

• 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.