Arvilla (Dresser) McCready - 1845-1925

DRESSER, HAWKINS, MCCREADY, VOGLE, KLEMA, SMITH, CLARK, REED, BAYLESS, WEBB, CHASE, HAGENSICK, NICHOLS

Posted By: Connie (Kelly) Ellis (email)
Date: 7/17/2011 at 20:58:15

The McCready, Aurrella (Dresser) obituary which is previously posted as of 22 February 2008, has several errors. The following information corrects those mistakes and gives additional information:

Contributor: Connie (Kelly) Ellis - Dresser/Hawkins Descendant and researcher. Arvilla was the twin sister to my gt.gt. grandmother Rozilla (Dresser) Webb. Arvilla was called "Vill" and Rozilla was called "Zill".

CORRECTIONS:
1. Her name is ARVILLA (DRESSER) MCCREADY.
2. The married name of her one daughter is listed incorrectly. It should be Mrs. John KLEMA, not Kelma

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Arvilla "Vill" (Dresser) McCready died on October 29, 1925 in Cherokee, Iowa. Her husband's full name was Robert Theodore McCready.

Arvilla was the daughter of Calvin and Sarah "Sally" (Hawkins) Dresser.

The children of Arvilla and Robert McCready were:
1. Albert Robert McCready, who was a druggist in Hartley, Iowa. He married Katharine Vogle and both are buried in a Cherokee, Iowa cemetery.

2. An infant daughter (name is unknown) died of smallpox.

3. Lucy Jane McCready was first married to Thomas "Clem" Klema who died in 1919.

Her second marriage was to Cassius P. "Cash" Smith

4. Rozilla Mae McCready married John Klema. They are both buried in a cemetery at Holstein, Iowa.

The siblings of Arvilla (Dresser) McCready are:
1. Charles Dresser, who died at the age of 3
2. Francis Dresser
3. Hiram Dresser
4. Lucy (Dresser) Clark
5. Mehitable (Dresser) Reed
6. Alonzo Harvey Dresser
7. Harriet (Dresser) Bayless
8. Rozilla "Zill" (Dresser) Webb

(Arvilla's twin sister)

Their mother, Sarah "Sally" (Hawkins) Dresser, was also a twin to a brother named Benjamin Hawkins
9. Lydia (Dresser) Chase
10. John Smith Dresser
11. Sarah Jane (Dresser) Hagensick

In 1869 Robert and Arvilla (Dresser) McCready left Postville, Iowa in Allamakee County to farm land near Cherokee, Iowa, which was given to them by her father, Calvin Dresser. They slept under a wagon box until they could get lumber to build a home on the farm. The land continued to remain in the McCready family until 1990 when their granddaughter, Myrna (McCready) Nichols of Evansdale, Illinois *daughter of Albert and Katherine McCready* passed away. All of the buildings on the farm had been removed and the land was farmed on contract basis.

NOTE OF THE RESEARCHER: I do not know who purchased the farmland after the death of Mrs. Nichols. I have quite a few pictures and additional family information on this family. PLEASE CONTACT ME IF YOU ARE A DESCENDANT AND HAVE INTEREST IN THIS FAMILY.