Volume 20 , Issue 1

Celebration of Life - Dorthy E. McGill (1943-2018)

Everyone needs a DoRight Dorthy. The strength and resolve of Dorthy’s soul soars with the eagles over the Li’l valley of Vallecito Lake, North of Bayfield, Colorado, that she loved. Dorthy McGill passed away at 2:08am, Saturday, 14 July 2018. She requested to be cremated and we promised her - no funeral services, tombstones or obituary. We met Dorthy’s wishes to some extent (half-way) as we celebrate her life through pictures, memories (good and bad) throughout her life. - Celebration of Life (Video) - Dorthy McGill (1943-2018) - OkieLegacy Blog - Find-a-grave - Dorthy E McGill.
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Everybody Needs A Crazy Old Aunt Dorthy

by M. E. Wagner - Everybody Needs A Crazy Old Aunt Dorthy. She was a unique individual down to the spelling of her name with only one 'O'. This is why a friend and I made bumper stickers with that saying just in time for her second attempt at the State Representative seat in 1992(0). Ever since I knew her, she was extremely independent. Whatever she needed or wanted she could get.

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THOMAS CRAIGHEAD (1664-1739)

Thomas Craighead (1664-1739) was born and educated in Scotland. He received his degree as a physician from Edinburgh in 1691, and in about 1701, married Margaret Homes (1664-1738), the daughter of a "Scottish Laird", in Scotland.

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Rev. Robert Craighead (1633-1711)

When Rev. Robert Craighead was born in 1633 in Scotland, his father, Thomas, was 26 and his mother, Janet, was 33. He married Margaret Agnes Hart in 1658. They had three children in 12 years. He died on August 22, 1711, having lived a long life of 78 years.

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1730's - The First Great Awakening

A powerful Protestant religious revival swept across the New England colonies and through Georgia starting in the 1730s, later named the First Great Awakening.

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Benjamin Franklin Connection

Back in May, 2011, I ran across a ancestry connection to the infamous Benjamin Franklin ( Not a direct relationship). The Benjamin Franklin connection appears on my father's side of the family with the Craighead, Holmes (Homes) and McGill's.

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Rev. Alexander Holmes Craighead (1705-1766)

Rev. Alexander Holmes Craighead (1705-1766) was the great grandfather of Samuel Geddes Craighead. Samuel married my 3rd great grand aunt, Nancy McGill (1814-1898). Craighead was also spelled "Creaghead." Alexander Craighead emigrated from Ireland as a child, arriving in Boston during the first week of October, 1714 or 1715, with his parents on the ship Thomas & Jan (William Wilson, Master) to Boston.

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