Bios:  McCreery, Robert,  Indiana Co, PA

SUBJECT: Robert McCREERY Biography
SUBMITTER: Michael S. Caldwell
EMAIL: msc@juno.com
DATE: Jan 02, 1999
SURNAMES: McCREERY, McCREARY, DUSHANE, SNODGRASS, HUGHES, McKEE
J.A. Caldwell, 1745-1880 HISTORY OF INDIANA COUNTY, PENN'A., J.A. Caldwell,
Newark, Ohio, 1880, p. 460:

ROBERT McCREARY was born in 1816, on the McCreery homestead, and was a
son of William and Margaret McCreery, nee McClain. The former was a son
of Samuel and Margaret McCreery, nee Fletcher. William was born in Ireland,
and came, in 1792, with his father and family, to America, and lived for
some years in what are now Juniata and Mifflin counties. About 1800, he
removed to what is now Conemaugh township, where his father and a brother,
Andrew, had previously settled in what is now the Hugh Speedy farm. In
removing his goods from Mifflin county to Conemaugh township, he made nineteen
trips on pack-horses. In 1803, he purchased the homestead now occupied
by his son, William G., in East Mahoning, made a clearing, built a cabin,
and put in a crop. In the fall of 1804, he was married, and in the spring
of 1805, he removed to his new home. Samuel McCreery, d. in 1817, about
ninety-four years of age. His wife died in Ireland about 1790. William
McCreery, d. in 1858, eighty-four years of age; his wife died in 1845,
sixty-eight years old. The children were: Jane, b. in 1805, m. in 1835
to Ebenezer Hammill; James, d.; James, m. first, in 1838, to Rebecca Smith,
d. in 1853, second, in 1854, to Rachel L. Hammill, d. in 1856, and third
to Mrs. Isabella Lytle nee Smith; Samuel F., d., m. to Hannah McEwen; Alexander
McClain, m. to Hannah Winecoop; Margaret, m. to Elijah J. Work; Robert,
m. to Nancy Dushane; Mary A., d., m. to Hugh H. Hamilton, d.; William G.,
m. first to Mary Work, d., and second to Mrs. Rachel Lytle nee Miller;
Martha E., d., m. to Samuel Matthews; and John. The McCreery homestead
was purchased of William P. Brady, in 1803. It contained one hundred and
twenty acres, and cost three dollars per acre. James McCreery's children
were: William, d.; Jane, d., m. to John H. Work; Margaret M., teacher;
Sam'l S., m. to Martha E. Kern; Floretta, d.; Hugh H., teacher; Agnes M.,
d.; Mary E.; and Thomas W. Samuel S. was in the 2d battalion, six months
volunteers, and in company A, 206th Pennsylvania volunteers, about one
year. James McCreery located on his present farm, then in the woods, in
1838. He has been an elder in the U.P. church, and its predecessor, for
forty-one years. Robert McCreery's children were: William H., U.P. minister,
m. to Martha Marshall; John, d.; James Alexander, d.; Mary Jane, d.; Isaac
Newton, m. -----; Margaret A.; Sarah Ellen, m. to T.J. McKee; James McClain;
John Snodgrass, m. to Emma Watts; Ebenezer H.; Jos. F.; and Robert A. Nancy
Dushane, the wife of Robert McCreery, was a daughter of Isaac and Mary
Dushane nee Snodgrass. The latter was a daughter of James and Mary Snodgrass
nee Hughes. The latter died in 1847, over ninety-four years of age. The
Robert McCreery land was patented in 1813 to members of the Holland land
company. There was a well-defined trail on this land, plainly visible many
years after the improvements were made; he located on this tract in 1849.




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