Samuel McCrery

MCCRERY, SHAFFER

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 3/24/2002 at 23:15:02

Samuel McCrery came to Butler county November 5, 1853, and first stopped at Clarksville. In the following spring he purchased fifty acres on section 7, Butler township, and twenty acres of timber on the Shell Rock, and commenced tilling the soil, residing on said land until 1869. He then sold out, removed into Jackson township, and now resides on section 13, and owns ninety-two acres. Mr. McCrery is a native of Kentucky, born in Jefferson county, on the 26th day of February, 1807. His parents were James and Margaret (Lynne) McCrery. In 1813 the family removed to Washington county, Indiana, and subsequently into Clinton county. Here the father died, having reached the advanced age of seventy-five years.
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The subject of this sketch is the oldest of eight children. He resided with his parents, and on the 15th day of November, 1836, married Miss Mary B. Shaffer, and continued farming in the Hoosier State until 1853. He then concluded to try the western frontier. Accordingly, he loaded his worldly goods and family, (wife and six children), into two wagons, and started westward on the 4th day of October, arriving as above stated. Mrs. McCrery died on the 16th day of April, 1881. She had twelve children, ten of whom are now living – John, Margaret, Catherine, Jane, Emma, Sarah, Ruth, William L., Martha, and Mary B. Mr. McCrery is a democrat in politics, and a Presbyterian in religion.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 603