Duchess of Weaselskin

Bayfield, CO - Did you wish your Mother a "Happy's Mother Day" this Sunday?

We heard that this Sunday the temperatures got up into the 106F range in Northwest Oklahoma, in Alva, Woods, Oklahoma! This can not be good for the crop and pasture lands. Are we heading into another drought (dust bow) era in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas? To bad they can't pipe some of those flood waters of the Mississippi River to some of the Drought-stricken areas.

As for the lilacs blooming in Oklahoma, our lilacs here in southwest Colorado usually bloom a month of so later than those in Oklahoma.

NW Okie took a trip to Tucumcari, New Mexico this last Friday. Now here is a community along I40 where the main businesses are Hotels, Motels for travelers and truckers.

On the way back from Tucumcari, avoid I40 and Albuquerque, they took Highway 84 up to Santa Fe, New Mexico (apron. 3 hour drive) to spend the night, before heading out Saturday noon towards Chama, New Mexico (photo on the right), Pagosa Springs, Colorado (view east of Pagosa Springs on the left), and on into Bayfield, Colorado (approximately 4 hours-plus drive).

NW Okie told this reporter, "I am glad to get back to the cool snow-cap mountains of Colorado and this "Duchess of Weaselskin" and "Lady Sadie." We are glad to have NW Okie back in Colorado!

We received an obituary for another Northwest Oklahoman last week. Perhaps some of you might remember Jack Kelsey, born 15 June, 1925, on the family farm north of Waynoka to the late J. Burtus and Pearl Estelle (Francis) Kelsey. Jack Kelsey passed away 29 April 2011, at Enid, Oklahoma, at the age of 85 years, 10 months, and 14 days. Jack Kelsey Obituary:

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This Day In History (May 9)

On May 9, 1874, Howard Carter, the British archaeologist who discovered the Egyptian tomb of King Tutankhamen, was born, Followin his death on March 2, 1939, his Obituary appeared in The Times.

1502 - Christopher Columbus left Cadiz, Spain, on his fourth and final trip to the Western Hemisphere.

1913 - The 17th amendment to the Constitution, providing for the popular election of U.S. senators, was ratified.

1926 - Americans Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett made what they claimed was the first airplane flight over the North Pole. (Evidence suggests they may have missed their target by 150 miles.)

1936 - Italy annexed Ethiopia.

1961 - Federal Communications Commission chairman Newton N. Minow condemned TV programming as a "vast wasteland" in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters.

1974 - The House Judiciary Committee opened hearings on whether to recommend the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.

1974 - A concert in Cambridge, Mass., prompted rock critic Jon Landau to write, "I saw rock and roll future and it's name is Bruce Springsteen."

1978 - The bullet-riddled body of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, who'd been abducted by the Red Brigades, was found in an automobile in the center of Rome.

On May 9, 1994, South Africa's newly elected parliament chose Nelson Mandela to be the country's first black president. View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

NW Okie's Ancestrial Lineage

Bayfield, CO - In a past "OkieLegacy Ezine I mentioned that I am at a roadblock with my LUTTRELL / CRAIGHEAD ancestors that married into my MCGILL ancestors. I am presently doing research and searching books, memiors and family histories for the CRAIGHEAD (name also spelt CRAIGHEID, CRAGHEDE, CRAIGIE, CRAGGY, CREAGHEAD and CRAGHEAD) and the LUTTRELL's descendants to see if I can unblock these roadblocks. I did find where a possible Craighead connection married the sister of Benjamin Franklin. More about that next week.

I know that my LUTTRELL / CRAIGHEAD ancestors settled around Knox and Hamilton county, Tennessee. I have found a Agnes Nancy Craighead that married a George Dunlap, which would possibly connect the Craighead's to the Warwick ancestors. BUT . . . the Nancy Craighead I am searching shows, she may have married Edward LUTTRELL, and had a daughter, Anne Nancy Luttrell that married William Nathan McGill, Jr.

This is what I have so far in my MCGILL / CRAIGHEAD family lineage below for Nancy Craighead.

Nancy Craighead (1757-1867)

• Nancy CRAIGHEAD, my 4th great grandmother; married Edward Luttrell; their daughter was Anne Nancy Luttrell (1787-1860), born in Virginia, died in Hamilton County TN;
• Anne Nancy LUTTRELL (1787-1860) Daughter of Nancy Craighead and Edward Luttrell; Anne Nancy Luttrell (1787-1860) was born in Virginia, died in Hamilton county, TN; married William Nathan McGill, Jr. (1783-1832), 10 Mar 1807, Hamilton County, TN; Children were: Hugh McGill (1802-), Walter Marshall McGill (1807-1878); Elizabeth Betsy McGill (1812-); William McGill (1813-); Nancy McGill (28 Feb 1814-17 Nov 1898) (Linda Kay McGill Wagner's 2nd Great Grand Aunt), born in TN, married Samuel Geddes Craighead (1814-1889), son of William and Jane Gillespie Craighead; born 13 May 1814; married in 22 Feb. 1838 to Nancy McGill (born 28 Apr 1814-), resided at Sulphur Springs, Rhea County, Tennessee, Samuel Geddes Craighead was a part of the fourth generation of the Craighead family, Children: Beriah G Craighead (4 Aug 1846-); William H. CRAIGHEAD (6 Nov 1840-6 Dec 1840); Margaret E. CRAIGHEAD (22 Oct 1842-1867) married 6 Apr 1865 to William I Julia; Newton C. CRAIGHEAD (5 Apr 1849-10 Nov 1868;
  
  Other children of Anne & William McGill were Newton McGill (1822-); Susannah Margaret McGill (1823-1894); Martin McGill (1825-); James McGill (1827-1839); Martha Ann McGill (1830-1848); John McGill (1831-1863)
• David Milton MCGILL (1808 - 1850) Son of Anne Nancy Luttrell and William Nathan McGill, Jr. (1783-1832), born Monroe County, TN, died in Hamilton county, TN; married in 1834 to Anne Nancy McKelvy (1816-1908); Children: William Pearson MCGILL (1835-1918), Samantha Jane MCGILL (1837-1882), Newton Anderson MCGILL (1839-1929), John David MCGILL (1842-1849), James Abel MCGILL (1844-1844), Nancy McKelvie MCGILL (1846-1884), Zachary Taylor MCGILL (1849-1918)
• William Pearson MCGILL (1835-1918), born in Soddy, Hamilton, TN, died in Alva, Woods, OK; Son of David Milton McGill and Nancy McKelvy Pearson (1816-1908); married 20 Nov 1861, TN to Isabelle McClure Johnson (1845-1926), daughter of Thomas C. Johnson (1815-) and Mary Ann Johnston (1816-1875); Children: Thomas David MCGILL (1862-1945), Alice Elizabeth MCGILL (1865-1929), Mary McKelvey MCGILL (1869-1922), James Acel MCGILL (1872-1955), William Jacob MCGILL (1880-1959), Charles Robert MCGILL (1884-1971), Lulu Belle MCGILL (1887-1975)
• William Jacob MCGILL (1880 - 1959), born in Galva, McPherson, KS, died in Alva, Woods, Oklahoma; Son of William Pearson McGill and Isabelle McClure Johnson (1845-1926); married 23 Mar 1910 in Alva Oklahoma to (1.) Constance Estella Warwick (1882-1969); married in 1945 (2.) Blanche Rankin Miller; Children of Wm J. & Constance E. Warwick: Gene M McGill (1914-1986), Robert Lee McGill (1916-1954)
• Gene M MCGILL (1914 - 1986), born and died in Alva, Woods, Oklahoma; Son of William Jacob McGill and Constance Estella Warwick; married 24 Mar 1940, Vada Eileen Paris (1916-1992); Children: Connie Jean McGill, Dorthy Eileen McGill, Linda Kay McGill, Amber Ann McGill

Col. Bob Kirkbride

Alva, Oklahoma - Patrick Donlan wrote the following comment Feature #3899 concerning Alva, Oklahoma's Col. Bob Kirkbride, "Col Bob Kirkbride! He was my grandmother's older brother! That makes me his grand nephew I guess!

"His sister Mercy (my grandmother) married Dan Mahaney and had 5 daughters, with my mother Mary (Babe) being the youngest. Mary wed Harry Donlan, also from Lincoln Nebraska in California and had 3 sons, Daniel, Michael and Patrick. Danial lives in Los Angeles, Michael in Sante Fe, New Mexico, and Patrick in Wiltshire in the UK." View/Write Comments (count 1)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

The Craighead Family - by James Geddes Craighead

Tennessee - On page 116, of The Craighead Family: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Rev. Thomas and Margaret Craighead (1658-1876), written by Rev. James Geddes Craighead, D.D., It shows a Samuel G. Craighead, son of William and Jane Gillespie Craighead; born 13 May 1814; married 22 Feb. 1838, Nancy McGill, who was born 28 Apr 1814. They resided at Sulphur Springs, Rhea County, Tennessee. Samuel G. Craighead was a part of the fourth generation of the Craighead family.

Their Children were:

• 1. William H., born 6 Nov 1840; died 8 Dec 1840.
• 2. Margaret M, born 22 Oct 1842; married 6 Apr 1865 to William I. Julian; died 3 Apr 1867, leaving a son B. R. Julian, born 8 Apr 1866
• 3. Beriah G., born 4 Aug 1846
• 4 Newton C., born 5 Apr 1849, died 10 Nov 1868

• 1. John V., born 1800; died unmarried 8 Sep 1827;
• 2. Robert Clark, born 1802; died unmarried 29 Aug 1823.
• 3. Thomas G., born 19 Aug 1805; married Rutelia Armstrong.
• 4. Hannah Malinda, born 20 May 1809; married Samuel S. Thatcher.
• 5. William, born 25 Aug 1811; died unmarried 15 Aug 1835.
• 6. Samuel G., born 15 May 1814; married Nancy McGill.
• 7. Benjamin Alexander, born 12 Aug 1816; died 29 Aug 1816

Craighead Family - 1st Generation

Tennessee - On page 35 of The Craighead Family: A genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Rev. Thomas and Margaret Craighead, by Rev. James Geddes Craighead, D.D., it starts with listing of the First Generation with Rev. Thomas Craighead, son of Rev. Robert Craighead, a native of Scotland, who removed to Ireland and was settled as pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Donoughmore in 1657-58, where he labored for thirty years.

Rev. Thomas Craighead, was subsequently minister at Londonderry, when the gates of the city were closed against the Papal forces of James II, whose purpose was to massacre the Protestants; and escaped during the second day of the siege, and made his way to Glasgow, Scotland. He afterwards returned to Ireland, and died in Londonderry, 1711.

Thomas Craighead's son (Thomas) was educated in Scotland as a physician, and married the daughter of a Scotch laird. After practicing medicine for a time, he became much depressed in spirits, and his wife inquiring the cause, he informed her that his conscience upbraided him for not preaching the Gospel. She at once assured him, that she would not stand in the way of what he considered his duty.

Accordingly, Thomas II soon after abandoned the practice of medicine, studied divinity, and was a pastor for several years in Ireland, principally at Donegal. In consequence, however, of the oppressions endured by the Presbyterians of that country from the government and from the Established Church, and their past experience giving them but little hope of any permanent relief, large numbers of the people determined to emigrate to America. Among these emigrants was Thomas Craighead, who came to New England in 1715, accompanied by Rev. William Homes, who was married to Mr. Craighead's sister Catharine. Mr Homes settled at Martha's Vineyard, and is buried with his wife, at Chilmark. Their eldest son Robert was a sea-captain, resided in Boston, and married Mary, a sister of Benjamin Franklin.

Thomas & Margaret Craighead had four sons and one daughter:

• Thomas, born 1702, in Ireland and moved with his father to New England in 1715; married Margaret Brown (born 1702, in Ireland, daughter of George Brown, merchant near Derry,in Ireland) and died September 13, 1765, and was a farmer at White Clay Creek, whose daughter (Elizabeth) married Rev. Matthew Wilson, father of Rev. Dr. J. P. Wilson, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia; Children were: Robert 1721; Margaret, 1723; Ann, 1725; Thomas, 1727; Elizabeth, 1729; William, 1731; George, 1733; Patrick, 1735- 1782.
• John, married Rachel R., who removed to Pennsylvania and was a large landholder four miles south of Carlisle, and whose descendants still possess the paternal mansion and property;
• Jane, the only daughter, who married Rev. Adam Boyd, pastor for 44 years of the Presbyterian Church at the forks of the Brandywine;
• Andrew, who lived and died unmarried at White Clay Creek, Delaware;
• Alexander, died March 1766, at Sugar Creek, NC,, who was early introduced into the ministry, and was installed over the church at Middle Octorara, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in November, 1735.

Craighead Surnames Origin

Scotland - This Scottish locational surname is shown in various records as CRAIGHEAD, CRAIGHEID, CRAGHEDE. The name is also spelt CRAIGIE, CRAGGY, CREAGHEAD and CRAGHEAD.

Locational surnames are usually by their very nature "from" names. That is to say names given to people after they had left their original homes, often in search of work, and who had moved elsewhere. One of the easiest ways to identify a stranger, was to call him or sometimes her, by the name of the place from whence they came.

The first people in Scotland to acquire fixed surnames were the nobles and great landowners, who called themselves, or were called by others, after the lands they possessed. Surnames originating in this way are known as territorial.

Formerly lords of baronies and regalities and farmers were inclined to magnify their importance and to sign letters and documents with the names of their baronies and farms instead of their Christian names and surnames. The abuse of this style of speech and writing was carried so far that an Act was passed in the Scots parliament in 1672 forbidding the practice and declaring that it was allowed only to noblemen and bishops to subscribe by their titles.

It originates from either Craighead, a village and manor near Bothwell in Lanarkshire, or from Craighead with Barrhead, in the former county of Renfrew, or as another possibility Craighelder, an area and mountain near the town of Newton Stewart, in Kircudbrightshire. In all cases the basic meaning is the "top of the hill" from the Celtic and Olde English pre 7th century words "crag-heafod."

Spelling over the centuries was at best erratic, and local dialects very thick, often lead to the development of "sounds like" spellings. In this case early recordings include those of David CRAIGHEAD appears as a witness in Aberbrothok in the year 1546, and William CRAIGHEID was a baxter in Aberdeen in the year 1613. A certain John CRAIGHEID was recorded in Fidesbeig in 1633.

Hereditary surnames were originally imported from France into England during the Norman Conquest of 1066. In the two centuries or so after the Conquest surnames were acquired by most families of major landholders, and many landed families of lesser importance.

There appears to have been a constant trickle of migration into Britain between about the years 1200 and 150O, mostly from France and the Low Countries, with a small number of migrants from Scandinavia, Germany, Italy and the Iberian peninsular, and occasional individuals from further afield. During this period groups of aliens settled in this country as for example, the Germans who from the late 15th century onwards settled in Cumbria to work the metal mines. Immigration during this time had only a small effect on the body of surnames used in Britain. In many cases, the surnames of immigrants were thoroughly Anglicised.

The late sixteenth century saw the arrival, mostly in London and the south-coast ports of large numbers of people fleeing from the war regions of France. View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

Rev. Thomas Craighead (1664-1739)

Londonderry, Ireland - Rev. Thomas Craighead, was born 1664, in Londonderry, Ulster, Ireland, son of Rev. Robert Craighead (1633-1711) and Agnes Hart (1633-1792). Rev. Thomas Craighead (1664-1739) married margaret Holmes Wallace (1664-1738). Thomas Craighead died 26 August 1739, in Big Spring presbyterian Church, Lancaster (later Cumberland) county, Pennsylvania.

Thomas and Margaret (Wallace) Craighead's children:

• Thomas M. Craighead (1702-1735), married Margaret Brown (1702-1765); children: Robert Craighead (1721-1750), Margaret Craighead (1723-1799), Ann Craighead (1725-), Thomas Craighead(1727-), Elizabeth Craighead (1729-1813), George Craighead (1731-1811), William Craighead (1731-1811), Patrick Craighead (1735-1782), John Craghead (1740-1808)
• Andrew Craighead (1704-1766)
• Jane or Janet Craighead (1705-1779), married Rev. Adam Boyd IV (1692-1768); children: Margaret Boyd (1726-1801), Rev. John Boyd (1728-1775), Janet Boyd (1730-1800), Agnes Boyd (1732-1770), Thomas Boyd (1734-1778), Mary Boyd(1736-1808), Rev. Adam Boyd (1738-1800), Col. Andrew Reed Boyd (1740-1786), Hannah Boyd (1743-), Elizabeth Boyd (1745-1821), Samuel, MD Boyd (1747-1780)
• Rev. Alexander Holmes Craighead (1706-1766), married Jane Agnes Brown (1715-1784); children: Elizabeth Craighead , Mary Craighead (1720-1796), Agnes Nancy Craighead (1737-1790), Margaret Craighead (1738-1781), Rachel Craighead (1739-1825), Jane Craighead (1742-1766), Thomas B Craighead (1750-1824), Robert Craighead (1751-1821)
• John Craighead (1713-1773), married Rachel R. Montgomery (1715-1768); children: James Craighead (1739-1771), Rev John Craighead (1742-1799), Catherine Craighead (1748-1800)

Memories - Fairvalley, Freedom, OK

Fairvalley, Oklahoma - Did you notice the Facebook comment (Apr 27) on our OkieLegacy Ezine site, from an Anonymous user lately? We believe it was from a DEVINE, VINCENTS and HOYLES descendant, who gives his memories of Fairvalley, Oklahoma, "I have always been told that I was the last born resident of Fairvalley, OK. I was actually was born in Alva, while we resided in Fairvalley in Jan 1953. My father John Charles DEVINE worked for the railroad and we lived at Fairvalley in the bunkhouse. At some point we moved into Freedom. I know I was fairly young. I remember my Granddad Henry Devine who lived just south of the town of Fairvalley. Both my dad and granddad are buried in the Fairvalley cemetery. Other tree parts of our family are Vincents and Hoyles. My grandmother Nora Vincent is also buried at Fairvalley.

"I have read, and maybe even from your writings, that Anderson Hoyle had donated the land for the Fairvalley Cemetery to the town of Fairvalley. The first rodeo I attended was in Freedom. I remember a clown on a tire being pulled by a buffalo. The buffalo went to the end of the arena, went over the fence and escaped into the night. I remember the bridge north of Freedom being washed out and picnicking on a sand bar. My mother had received a new picnic basket and we were trying it out. I remember the Canadian River flooding and my mother swimming in the backwater. I remember my first bicycle ride was on a sandy street of Freedom. My mother took off the training wheels and a crash landing was soon to follow. We moved from Freedom sometime in 1958 or 1959. Thank for your writings and keep up the great job you are doing." View/Write Comments (count 0)   |   Receive updates (0 subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

The Cemeteries of Hamilton, TN

Hamilton County, Tennessee - According to The History of Hamilton County & Chattanooga, Tennessee, by Zella Armstrong, page 250, Chapter XVII, titled Cemeteries, we scrolled to page 263 to the McRee Cemetery, near Soddy, TN, contains the graves of many including the following members of the McRee family.

On page 242 of that same book I found mention of some other ancestors who were connected to the Soddy Presbyterian Church which was organized as "Mount Bethel church," but it is better known by the name of the town in which it has continued its services for more than a hundred years.

Rev. Abel Pearson organized the church, Dec., 1828, the following charter members being present: col. William Clift, Mrs. nancy A Brooks Clift, Col. James Cozby, Mrs. Isabella Woods Cozby, William McGill, Mrs. Betsy McGill, John McGill, Mrs. Nancy McGill, Major robert Clarke McRee, Mrs. James Brooks McRee Lewis Patterson, and two others whose names are not now known.



This is what I found to one of my distant ancestors, Jane (Craighead) McRee, born 29 Mar 1774; died 11 Oct 1813. Others listed were:

• William McRee, b. 17 Feb 1766; d. 13 Mar 1845.
• Richard McRee, b. 25 Aug 1792; d. 21 Jan 1845.
• Robert Clarke McRee, b. 1797; d. 3 May 1856.
• Jane Brooks McRee, b. 1797; d. 3 May 1856.
• William R. McRee, b. 2 Sep 1833; d. 28 Oct 1852.
• Elizabeth Jane McRee, b. 1 Feb 1824; d. 13 Dec 1852.
• Margaret Hannah McRee, b. 1819; d. 1828.
• Cynthia Ann McRee. 24 Jan 1822; d. 9 Oct 1840.
• Mary Agnes McRee (Mrs. James Hair), b. 22 Aug 1826; d. 1848.
• America Washington McRee, b. 4 Aug 1831; d. 1831.
• Sarah Eda Rebecca McRee, b. 3 Mar 1835; d. 29 Oct 1847.
• Robert Preston Roddy, b. 1790; d. 14 Sep 1842.
• John Roddy, b. 1790; d. 1841.
• Nancy T. Ledford, b. 1825; d. 1898.
• Elizabeth Brown, wife of john Brown, b. 17 Dec 1791; d. 10 Aug 1861.

• William S. Carrell, b. Jan. 15, 1846; d. Oct. 17, 1916.
• Alfred Lea, b. Sep 20, 1837; d. July 24, 1893. co. A. 6th Tenn. Fed. Regt.
• Jasper Lea, b. 1839; d. 1863. 5th Tenn. Fed. Regt.
• Larkin W. Shipley, 5th Tenn. Fed. Regt.
• George A. Leggett, Co. E, 4th new York Inf.
• Robert Patterson, the Revolutionary soldier,is buried near his home which is standing west of the Dayton Pike. Bartholomew rogers and his wife, Jane Gibson Rogers, are also buried in this plot.

NW Okie's Distant Craighead Ancestors

Tennessee - Well! I have finally found a connection to the Craighead ancestors that I have been researching, but have NOT found the connection to Nancy Craighead (1757-1867) that married Edward Luttrell.

Distant ancestors of NW Okie (Linda Kay McGill Wagner):

• Rev. Thomas Craighead (1664 - 1739), relationship to this NW Okie: 2nd great grandfather of husband (Samuel Geddes Craighead) of 2nd great grand aunt (Nancy McGill, daughter of William Nathan McGill, Jr. and Anne Nancy Luttrell).
• Rev. Alexander Holmes Craighead (1706 - 1766), Son of Rev. Thomas Craighead
• Capt Robert Craighead (1751 - 1821), Son of Rev. Alexander Holmes Craighead.
• William CRAIGHEAD (1778 - 1835), Son of Capt Robert Craighead
• Samuel Geddes CRAIGHEAD (1814 - 1889), Son of William Craighead
• Nancy MCGILL (1814 - 1898), Wife of Samuel Geddes Craighead
• Anne Nancy LUTTRELL (1787 - 1860), Mother of Nancy McGill
• David Milton MCGILL (1808 - 1850), Son of Anne Nancy Luttrell
• William Pearson MCGILL (1835 - 1918), Son of David Milton McGill
• William Jacob "Will" MCGILL (1880 - 1959), Son of William Pearson McGill
• Gene M "Merle" MCGILL (1914 - 1986), Son of William Jacob McGill & Constance Estella Warwick; married Vada Eileen Paris 24 March 1940; Children: Connie Jean, Dorthy Eileen, Linda Kay, Amber Ann.