On Tuesday, May 23, 2017 at 3:14:32 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > Possibly also the writer Thornton Wilder ... > > https://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/Tappan-Descendants-138 Here is a presentation of the role Rachel Craighead Caldwell played in the American Revolutionary War: https://books.google.com/books?id=LUoZUs4xg78C&pg=PA151 Rachel was a daughter of minister Alexander Craighead and granddaughter of Thomas and Margaret (Wallace) Craighead. Rachel was the grandmother of the female physician John mentioned earlier in this thread. For a biography of Rachel's father Alexander Craighead, see http://www.ncpedia.org/biography/craighead-alexander

The Craigheads have seemingly always been considered very respectable people in North Carolina and Tennessee. I notice that the father of Vice President John C. Calhoun married a Craighead daughter as his first wife (who was not the mother of John C., however).

On Wednesday, May 24, 2017 at 12:53:29 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > The Craigheads have seemingly always been considered very respectable people in North Carolina and Tennessee. I notice that the father of Vice President John C. Calhoun married a Craighead daughter as his first wife (who was not the mother of John C., however). This book is telling me the Calhouns were "backcountry 'elite'" ... https://books.google.com/books?id=eq5oAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA648-IA2&dq=%22patrick+calhoun%22+craighead&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi7p-2bp4vUAhXKSSYKHYPdAn0Q6AEIMTAC#v=onepage&q=%22patrick%20calhoun%22%20craighead&f=false