Rumor has a least grown into certainty respecting the death of John B Craighead, an old and esteemed planter of this [plaquemine] parish. Several month since, appearances indicated but too strongly that his health was seriously impaired. After suffering with disease for some time at his plantation home, he started with his family for the old homestead in Tennessee, where he expired with a few day since.
Mr. Craighead was a man of great industry and perseverance - one who had battled oftenly and manfully with the strugges of life.
He lived to acquire a large fortune for those who are left behind, his aged partner, his children and his grandchildren. He was a strict and zealous member of the Methodist Church, and we hope he went down to the grave with the happy consciousness of a blessed immortality hereafter. Death could not have come upon him unawares, and doubtless sank to his mother earth with a placid mind and a heart at ease with the world. May Providence temper the affliction to the loved family he hast left behind him.
Source - The Southern Sentinel Iberville, LA dated July 15, 1854.
DIED – At his summer residence, 3 miles South of this city [Nashville, TN], John B. Craighead, of Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, Louisiana, at one o’clock in the morning of the first of July
Source - Nashville Union & American dated Tuesday, July 4, 1854.
This Craighead house was built in 1810 for John Brown Craighead and his first wife Jane Erwin Dickinson. Craighead was the son of early Nashville settler the Rev. Thomas Craighead. In 1823, Craighead married Lavinia Robertson Beck, youngest daughter of Nashville founders Charlotte and James Robertson. Major additions to the house were made in 1824, 1919, and 1998. Developers purchased the Craighead estate in 1905 and planned the present-day Richland-West End neighborhood.
Source - Nashville.gov - Historical Markers
The Craighead House was built by John Brown Craighead and was the "manor house" of his 194-acre plantation.
Source - Wikipedia.org
Married wife 1 Jane Erwin Dickinson.
Married wife 2 Lavinia Robertson in 1823.
Mr. Craighead was a man of great industry and perseverance - one who had battled oftenly and manfully with the strugges of life.
He lived to acquire a large fortune for those who are left behind, his aged partner, his children and his grandchildren. He was a strict and zealous member of the Methodist Church, and we hope he went down to the grave with the happy consciousness of a blessed immortality hereafter. Death could not have come upon him unawares, and doubtless sank to his mother earth with a placid mind and a heart at ease with the world. May Providence temper the affliction to the loved family he hast left behind him.
Source - The Southern Sentinel Iberville, LA dated July 15, 1854.
DIED – At his summer residence, 3 miles South of this city [Nashville, TN], John B. Craighead, of Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, Louisiana, at one o’clock in the morning of the first of July
Source - Nashville Union & American dated Tuesday, July 4, 1854.
This Craighead house was built in 1810 for John Brown Craighead and his first wife Jane Erwin Dickinson. Craighead was the son of early Nashville settler the Rev. Thomas Craighead. In 1823, Craighead married Lavinia Robertson Beck, youngest daughter of Nashville founders Charlotte and James Robertson. Major additions to the house were made in 1824, 1919, and 1998. Developers purchased the Craighead estate in 1905 and planned the present-day Richland-West End neighborhood.
Source - Nashville.gov - Historical Markers
The Craighead House was built by John Brown Craighead and was the "manor house" of his 194-acre plantation.
Source - Wikipedia.org
Married wife 1 Jane Erwin Dickinson.
Married wife 2 Lavinia Robertson in 1823.
Rumor has a least grown into certainty respecting the death of John B Craighead, an old and esteemed planter of this [plaquemine] parish. Several month since, appearances indicated but too strongly that his health was seriously impaired. After suffering with disease for some time at his plantation home, he started with his family for the old homestead in Tennessee, where he expired with a few day since.
Mr. Craighead was a man of great industry and perseverance - one who had battled oftenly and manfully with the strugges of life.
He lived to acquire a large fortune for those who are left behind, his aged partner, his children and his grandchildren. He was a strict and zealous member of the Methodist Church, and we hope he went down to the grave with the happy consciousness of a blessed immortality hereafter. Death could not have come upon him unawares, and doubtless sank to his mother earth with a placid mind and a heart at ease with the world. May Providence temper the affliction to the loved family he hast left behind him.
Source - The Southern Sentinel Iberville, LA dated July 15, 1854.
DIED – At his summer residence, 3 miles South of this city [Nashville, TN], John B. Craighead, of Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, Louisiana, at one o’clock in the morning of the first of July
Source - Nashville Union & American dated Tuesday, July 4, 1854.
This Craighead house was built in 1810 for John Brown Craighead and his first wife Jane Erwin Dickinson. Craighead was the son of early Nashville settler the Rev. Thomas Craighead. In 1823, Craighead married Lavinia Robertson Beck, youngest daughter of Nashville founders Charlotte and James Robertson. Major additions to the house were made in 1824, 1919, and 1998. Developers purchased the Craighead estate in 1905 and planned the present-day Richland-West End neighborhood.
Source - Nashville.gov - Historical Markers
The Craighead House was built by John Brown Craighead and was the "manor house" of his 194-acre plantation.
Source - Wikipedia.org
Married wife 1 Jane Erwin Dickinson.
Married wife 2 Lavinia Robertson in 1823.
Mr. Craighead was a man of great industry and perseverance - one who had battled oftenly and manfully with the strugges of life.
He lived to acquire a large fortune for those who are left behind, his aged partner, his children and his grandchildren. He was a strict and zealous member of the Methodist Church, and we hope he went down to the grave with the happy consciousness of a blessed immortality hereafter. Death could not have come upon him unawares, and doubtless sank to his mother earth with a placid mind and a heart at ease with the world. May Providence temper the affliction to the loved family he hast left behind him.
Source - The Southern Sentinel Iberville, LA dated July 15, 1854.
DIED – At his summer residence, 3 miles South of this city [Nashville, TN], John B. Craighead, of Plaquemine, Iberville Parish, Louisiana, at one o’clock in the morning of the first of July
Source - Nashville Union & American dated Tuesday, July 4, 1854.
This Craighead house was built in 1810 for John Brown Craighead and his first wife Jane Erwin Dickinson. Craighead was the son of early Nashville settler the Rev. Thomas Craighead. In 1823, Craighead married Lavinia Robertson Beck, youngest daughter of Nashville founders Charlotte and James Robertson. Major additions to the house were made in 1824, 1919, and 1998. Developers purchased the Craighead estate in 1905 and planned the present-day Richland-West End neighborhood.
Source - Nashville.gov - Historical Markers
The Craighead House was built by John Brown Craighead and was the "manor house" of his 194-acre plantation.
Source - Wikipedia.org
Married wife 1 Jane Erwin Dickinson.
Married wife 2 Lavinia Robertson in 1823.
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