Jasper County MO Archives Obituaries.....CREECH, Prudence March 20, 1903 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/mofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bill BOGGESS http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00024.html#0005917 November 2, 2009, 3:30 pm Webb City Sentenial, Sat, 3/21/1903, p:4,c:4 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~       Mrs.   Prudence   Creech   Dead   Mr M T [Marion Taylor] Creech [oldest child] received word last evening of the death of his aged mother in Galena. The remains will be brought to this city for burial by Undertaker Steele.  She died at home of Mrs [Lina May] Dr Cooper at 7 o'clock last evening, aged 76 years. Short services will be held at the home of her [youngest child] daughter, after which a car will be chartered and remains will be brought to this city and the regular services will be held at the M E church south at 2:30 p m tomorrow, conducted by Revs J L Sallens and W C Bewley.  The enterment will be in the Webb City Cemetery. Friends of the family are invited.       ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: Prudence (Nichols) Creech was born (reportedly)1826 in North Carolina. She married John Creech 1845 in Owens county, Indiana, living in Owens, Clay and Vigo counties giving birth to eight known children before moving to Mattoon, Coles county, Illinois for 1870 Federal census. They then appear to have lived in Adair county, Missouri where John (reportedly) died in 1872/73. Prudence, a widow, is found on 1880 Federal census in Preston, Jasper county, Missouri, listed second below her son Preston's in-laws, with four of her known children, four others had married in 1872, 1875, 1876 and 1879. http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=califia1&id=I6541 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mo/jasper/obits/c/creech32ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/mofiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb