S W Cree

CREE, CAPPS

Posted By: County Coordiantor
Date: 11/18/2006 at 23:10:07

S W Cree, farmer, Sec 31, P O Boone, was born in Washington county, Ohio, January 13,1832, he learned the trade of brick making there and was engaged in the mercantile business until 1852, when he moved to Wheeling, Virginia, following his trade there for three years, he then came to Boonesboro, where he resumed his former occupation, but was not very successful, and soon moved to Boone, in 1862, he enlisted in the Thirty-second Iowa, company D, and participated in several battles, and in the Red River march with General Banks, was mustered out and retuned to this state, owns 80 acres of land, he was united in marriage with Miss Mary E Capps, a native of Indiana, he died in February 1878, leaving six children: Virginia E, Julia F, Florence M, Alice M, William F and Anette V

1880 Boone Co History Book