Person:Jane Craighead (2)

Working notes

• supposedly died following a miscarriage of twins^{Citation needed}

1. ↑ Craighead, James Geddes (1823-1895). The Craighead family : a genealogical memoir of the descendants of Rev. Thomas and Margaret Craighead, 1658-1876. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Printed for the descendants, Sherman & co., 1876)
   51, 81.

   19. Jane, [born] ; married Patrick Calhoun.
   
   19.
   JANE CRAIGHEAD, third daughter of Rev. Alexander Craighead, married Patrick Calhoun. She had two children, but both died young. "She was very beautiful, smart, and sprightly ; had a fine disposition, and was a great favorite." After her death, Mr. Calhoun married a Miss Caldwell, of Abbeville, who was the mother of Hon. John Caldwell Calhoun.

2. ↑ Index-Journal (Greenwood, South Carolina)
   20 Mar 1948.

   Patrick Calhoun married 1st Jane Craighead, daughter of the famous Presbyterian Minister, Rev Alexander Craighead . She died Sept 10, 1766, in the 24th year of her age (b 1742)
   
   The death of Patrick Calhoun’s first wife was noted in the South Carolina Gazette published in Charleston in its issue of Monday, Oct 14, 1766 and it is stated of her, “one of the most pious and accomplished young women in these parts.”

3. ↑ 178687689 , in Find A Grave
   no headstone photo, last accessed Dec 2022.