Charles Crum Creamer

As printed in 1914

CHARLES CRUM CREAMER.

More than a century ago George Creamer, a native *of Berkeley county, Virginia, came to Fayette county, Ohio, with his four sons, Michael, Joseph, David and George. George and Michael, the grandfather of the immediate subject of this sketch, were already married when they came to this county. The others were married soon after arriving here. Joseph Creamer married Margaret Miller and David married Elizabeth Smith. The Creamer family settled here in 1810 and three years later the War of 1812 opened. Immediately after the surrender of General Hull at Detroit in the fall of 1 81 2, Joseph, Michael and David responded to the call for volunteers to aid in suppressing the anticipated invasion by the British, and served with distinction in that second struggle for American independence. During the one hundred and four years that this family has been in the county it has taken a prominent part in its development, and the descendants of these four brothers have played a conspicuous part in bringing Fayette county to its present position among the sisterhood of Ohio counties. The father of these four sons died in 1825; Michael died in 1840: David in 1860; George in 1861 and Joseph in 1872.

Michael Creamer, the grandfather of Charles C, whose history is subse-

Google quently related, was married in Berkeley county, Virginia, to Mary Gray, and came with his brothers to this county in 1810 and located in Sugar Creek valley. One of the children of Michael and Mary (Gray) Creamer was Christian C. Creamer, who was born August 4, 1818, in this county. Christian C. Creamer was twice married, his first marriage occurring April 9, 1840, to Rosanna Gray, and to this tion one son, Wesley M., a minister of the Methodist Protestant church, was born. Mrs. Rosanna Creamer died January 5, 1843, he age of twenty-seven. Shortly afterwards Christian C. Creamer married Elizabeth Higbee, and to this union eleven children were born: Mrs. Rose Bradley, Victor, Nelson D., Albert J., Mrs. Emma Moore, Mrs. Jennie Parrett, Samuel H., Mary A., Alexis H., George H. and Charles C. Three of these children, Victor, Samuel H. and Mary A., are deceased.

Charles Crum Creamer, the youngest of eleven children bom to Christian C. Creamer and wife, was born March 5, 1865, on the farm where he is now living. al)out three miles south of Jeffersonville, in Jefferson township. He received his education in the Creamer school, and finished at a Washington C. TI. business college. From his earliest boyhood he worked on the farm and after his father's death took charge of the farm. He now has one hundred and seventy-two acres of finely improved land, on which he raises all the crops of this section of the state.

Mr. Creamer was married October 3, 1889, to Lizzie R. Nisley, the daughter of Joseph and Isabella (Watts) Nisley. Mrs. Creamer's parents were both born in Highland county, Ohio, near Carmel, and came to Fayette county in 1870, locating in Jasper township. Joseph Nisley and wife were the parents of ten children, six of whom are living: Mrs. Ellen Vince, Albert C, Mrs. L. Mary Lynch, J. A., Mrs. Creamer, and Fletcher, who married Mayme Brown and has three sons, Herbert, James and Joseph. Mr. and Mrs. Creamer have two sons, Hugh and Charles D., both of whom are living on their father's farm. Hugh married Lela Wood and has one daughter, Martha Pauline; Charles is still attending the public schools of his township.

Politically. Mr. Creamer is a Republican and has always taken an intelligent interest in the civic life of his community. Religiously, he and his family are loyal members of the Methodist Protestant church and are deeply interested in all church and Sunday school work. Mr. Creamer is a steward and trustee of his denomination at the present time. He is a worthy schon of the Creamer family and his whole life has been such as to reflect credit upon the family name.

As printed in History of Fayette County, Ohio : her people, industries and institutions (1914). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.