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Born 1812
From History of Fayette County : together with historic notes on the Northwest, and the State of Ohio, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and all oth (1881)
PHILIP CREAMER.
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Mr. Creamer has a farm of one hundred and fourteen acres.
well improved, situated about a mile west of Jeftersonville. Himself, wife, and three of the daughters, are exemplary members of the Methodist Protestant Church, which the two elders joined some twenty years since — being yet zealous in the faith. Mr. Creamer has seen much of Fayette County's rapid improvements, and has participated in making many of them. When he was a young man there were no railroads or pikes, the school houses were log, with luncheon floor and seats, the windows were made of greased paper, passed over a large crack in the wall, made by cutting away half of a log. All these have given place to more comfortable and modern-built structures.
As printed in History of Fayette County : together with historic notes on the Northwest, and the State of Ohio, gleaned from early authors, old maps and manuscripts, private and official correspondence, and all oth (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Their biographies name Philip Creamer: John B. Fent (b. 1845)
The printed record stops around 1881. We trace your line from there down to you, with every source cited.