Creasy.Joseph.H..1815.Hart-Cumberland-Metcalfe.BIOS


Joseph H.  Creasy November 28 1815 - unknown Hart-Cumberland-Metcalfe County KyArchives Biography

Author: Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin

JOSEPH H. CREACY was born in Cumberland County (now Metcalfe), November 28, 1815, and is the third of eight children born to Joseph and Delilah (Jones) Creacy, native of Virginia and of English descent; his grandfather, John Creacy, was a soldier under Gen. Greene during the Revolutionary war, and was in the celebrated battle with Cornwallis, at Guilford; after the struggle he became a pensioner for life. He married Sarah Smith, daughter of Moses and ___
(Alexander) Smith, natives of Virginia, and of English and Scotch-Irish origin. John Creacy died in 1839, in his eighty-fifth year, having survived his wife about four years; his son, Joseph, father of Joseph H., was the second child and eldest son of a family of four sons and six daughters, and was born in Henry County, Va., where he married Delilah, daughter of Henry and ___
(Shackelford) Jones; he was an extensive farmer and slave owner, and, in 1814, brought his wife and two children, together with his slaves, to Cumberland County, Ky., where he cleared a farm, on which his wife died in 1846, in her sixty-sixth year, and he in 1856, in his seventy-fourth year, leaving a family of six daughters and one son. Joseph H. Creacy passed his early life at the homestead and had the management of the farm at the time of his father's death. In 1839 he married Miss Emily, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Terry) Anderson, natives of Virginia, and of Irish extraction. In 1857 he settled up his father's estate and came to Horse Cave; the next year he settled on 259 acres near by and engaged in general farming and stock raising; he has had born to him the following children: Joseph W. (deceased), Albert H.; Martha E., Sarah Q, Alexander B. And Virginia E. He and wife and three eldest children are members of the Christian Church, and before the war he had been a Whig in politics, but since then he has been a Republican, and cast his first vote with that party for U. S. Grant. He has never run for public office nor has he ever belonged to any secret order.


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