Samuel Merrill Creger

CREGER, REID

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 9/19/2004 at 20:42:49

S. M. Creger, Ohio twp.; farmer, Sec. 10; P.O. St. Charles; was born in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, April 18, 1831, was raised there; he came to Iowa in the fall of 1853 and stopped one year in Poweshiek county, and came to this county in the fall of 1854, locating in this township; he married Miss Rebecca J. Reid, April 2, 1857, a native of Carroll county, Ohio; she was born September 15, 1840; they have two sons and one daughter: James T., Amanda E. and Wm. O.; was in the late war, in company F, 39th Iowa; enlisted in August 1862; was transferred July 15, 1863, to the United States Signal Corps., discharged June 234, 1865, at Louisville, Kentucky; owns 180 acres of land; was county superintendent for one term.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 567