Dayton Daily News. (Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States), page 1 columns 4 and 5, 2 Aug 1947. Services for Mrs. Craighead to Be Held Monday Afternoon - obituary including large portrait of her in Red Cross outfit.
Why Redondo Beach? The bride's father, Major General Alexander McCook, was in command of the Department of the Pacific there.
Name: Alexander McCook Craighead SAR Membership: 50692 Birth Date: 30 Oct 1893 Birth Place: Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio Father: Charles Anderson Craighead Mother: Kathleen McCook
Patriot from whom he was descended: Jonathan Phillips of New Jersey
Line of descendancy: Philip Phillips Patriot Jonathan Phillips m. Mary Foreman Horatio Gates Phillips m. Eliza Smith Houston Jonathan Dickenson Phillips m. Lucianna Ziegler Greene Kate Phillips m. Alexander McDowell McCook Kathleen McCook m. Charles Anderson Craighead Alexander McCook Craighead was the member from the application: about Jonathan Phillips: Commissioned Lieutenant November 20, 1775, Captain December 1 1777. Served until April 1783. He was with Schuyler's expedition in Canada with General Gates in campaign around Lake Champlaine. He was in the battle of Monmouth and Trenton and at the capture of Princeton and was with General Washington at the Surrender of Cornwallis.
History of New Jersey Heitman's Register of the Continental Army page 327, 1914 edition page 440 Stryker's Officers and Men in the Revolution, page 404. He was also an original member of the "Society of the Cincinnatius" from New Jersey.
