LICKING COUNTY OHIO - BIO: CRETSINGER, John *********************************************************************** OHGENWEB NOTICE: All distribution rights to this electronic data are reserved by the submitter. Reproduction or re-presentation of copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. *********************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman maggieohio@columbus.rr.com September 6, 1999 *********************************************************************** From: Bobbi Pohl To: Sent: Sunday, September 05, 1999 3:31 PM John Cretsinger, one of the prominent agriculturists of Orange township, is a native of Virginia, having been born in Hardy county, on the 10th of June, 1818. He emigrated to Licking county, Ohio, in October, 1837, where he was engaged in tilling the soil until September, 1859, when he removed to Carroll county, Illinois, and settled near Mount Carroll. On the 28th of March, 1866, he left the latter place, and turning his face westward, entered Guthrie county, locating upon the farm he is now a resident of, on section 20, on the 15th of April of the same year. On the 2d of April, 1843, while a resident of Licking county, Ohio, he was united in the bonds of matrimony with Miss Mary Boone. This estimable lady, a daughter of Peter and Catherine (Ash) Boone, was born February 26, 1826, in Pennsylvania, but whose parents had moved to Ohio in 1828. They have been blessed with fourteen children--David, the eldest, married Miss Susan Ribble, March 2, 1880; Margaret, espoused Cyrus B. True, December 3, 1865, and at present resides in Nebraska; Emily, who took a partner for life in the person of Crockett Ribble, February 22, 1869, and lives in Carroll county; Louisa, married to James Gilly, February 18, 1866; Lucinda, married Fremont Basom, February 15, 1872; Ella M., united to Mason Johnson, November 16, 1882; Mina, who married Albert Johnson, December 25, 1878; Allen, united in matrimony with Miss Addie Garnes, February 10, 1884; William, married to Miss Mary E. Russell, September 21, 1881; Samuel, Henry, Hattie, Caroline and Annie. Mr. Cretsinger owns some three hundred acres of land mostly under cultivation and it is one of the finest farms in the township. Mrs. Cretsinger comes from an ilustrious family, her father, Peter Boone, having been a favorite officer on the staff of the great Napoleon, the first emperor of the French. He took a prominent part in the march to Moscow and the fearful retreat from that capital amid the snows and rigors of a Russian winter, when men laid down and died by thousands. Chef. Boone, was with the beloved emperor some ten years, and although the American was a noted swordsman, he on the fall of Napoleon, returned to this country, suffering shipwreck on the way, and locating in Carroll county, Illinois, where he died in February, 1866, and was buried in the cemetery at Mount Carroll. History of Guthrie and Adair Counties, Iowa, Continental Historical Company, Springfield, Illinois, 1884, pages 716-717. Note: this bio and those of his Cretsinger's sons will shortly be available at the Iowa GenWeb biographies project http://www.genhist.com/IABios/ Bobbi Pohl Hyattsville, MD *************OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List*******************************