Mecosta County MI Archives Biographies.....Creevey, William April 28, 1832 - 
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WILLIAM CREEVEY, farmer, sec. 26, Fork Tp., was born in County Kildare, 
Ireland, April 28, 1832, and is a 

son of Patrick and Rose (Armstrong) Creevey, both of whom were native of 
Ireland.  Mr. Creevey was 18 years 

old when he left his native land to come to the New World.  He first located 
in Monroe Co., N.Y., and after 

a residence of three years came, in the fall of 1855, to Eaton Co., Mich., and 
worked as a farm laborer 

three years.  In 1858 he married Jane, daughter of Jonathan and Agnes 
Seidler.  She was born in Steinbrook, 

Penn., where her father died when she was quite young.  Her mother married 
Conrad Friend, and now lives in 

Eaton, Mich.

After marriage Mr. Creevey took farms to work on shares until he had by 
industry and goog management 

acquired sufficient means to enable him to venture upon the purchase of a home 
for himself, and he finally 

bought 40 acres of land, which he improved and occupied until 1867; and then 
he sold out and came to 

Mecosta County, locating 80 acres of land under the homestead act, on sec. 26, 
in the township of Fork, 

which has since been his home.  He enlisted in the service of the Union Sept. 
1, 1864, and received his 

discharge at the close of the war, June 10, 1865.  He was taken sick at 
Newbern, N.C., and sent to the 

hospital at Foster, and three weeks later to David's Island Hospital in New 
York Harbor, where he remained 

until he was discharged.

Mr. Creevey was elected the first Supervisor of Fork Tp., at the meeting held 
for its organization, a 

position he has filled 10 years.  He has officiated as Postmaster of Fork 14 
years, was Road Commissioner 

10 years, Justice of the Peace 12 years, Treasurer one year, School Director 
three years.  He is a member 

of G.A.R., POst No. 77, at Sherman City.

The family of Mr. Creevey comprises the following children born in the named 
order:  Rose M., Jan. 8, 1860; 

George M., Oct. 8, 1861; William J., April 14, 1863; Charles C., March 10, 
1870; Edwin, Sept. 27, 1872; 

Perry, Aug. 26, 1875; Agnes B., March 12, 1879; Arthur Grant, Dec. 25, 1881.

Additional Comments:
1883 Portrait & Bio Album of Mecosta Co.

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