Overton Craighead

FROM THE CARTHAGE COURIER CARTHAGE, TN THURSDAY 20 May 1993

Transcribed by Fred and Elaine Brown Ryan

Craighead, Overton 1911-1993

Mr. Overton Craighead, age 82, a Retired Farmer of Defeated Creek, died unexpectedly Tuesday morning at 12:47 a.m. at the Smith County Memorial Hospital. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon from the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home by Elder Jeff Patterson, pastor of the Friendship Primitive Baptist Church, where Mr. Craighead was a member. Burial followed the 1:00 p.m. services in the Defeated Creek Memorial Gardens.

Born in Smith County the Son of the late Walter and Callie Kemp Craighead, he was married to the Former Lena Smith who survives. Mr. Overton was preceded in death in 1989 by his twin brother, Larkin Craighead. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Billy Craighead of Dixon Springs and Doris Craighead of Nashville; three sisters, Lou Ova Lankford of Tanglewood, Willie Mai Wilkerson of Turkey Creek, Georgia Carter of Difficult; one brother, Lossie B. Craighead of Sycamore Valley; two grandchildren, two step-grandchildren, one great-grandchild and five step-great-grandchildren. Sanderson Funeral Home of Carthage, Directors.

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