Walter and Callie Kemp Craighead Family
Back Row: Callie Kemp Craighead, Lue Ova Craighead, Willie Mai Craighead, Georgia Craighead
Walter Lawson Craighead was the son of Overton and Sarah Dillehay Craighead.
Walter died of pneumonia at an early age when his youngest child was only one year old.
Callie was the daughter of Larkin and Louisa Lankford Kemp (see link below)
Lue Ova Craighead married Seleous Lankford
Lossie B Craighead married Bertha Chambers
Larkin Craighead married Annie Margie Smith
Overton Craighead married Lena Smith
Willie Mai Craighead married Estes Buford (Sport) Wilkerson
Georgia Craighead married Leonard Carter
The only known photo of Walter Lawson Craighead is shown on the following page:
Larkin and Overton were twins and married sisters. This family lived in the Defeated
Creek community in the hollow back of the Lankford cemetery. Walter and Callie are
buried in the Lankford cemetery. A daughter, Margie Craighead, died during early
childhood and is also buried in the Lankford cemetery.