HISTORY: CREIGHTON FAMILY STARK COUNTY OHIO *********************************************************************** 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. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ *********************************************************************** File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Submitter: Maggie Stewart Email: maggieohio@columbus.rr.com Date:24 March 2000 *********************************************************************** ---- Original Message ----- From: Posting by Al Dawson of Berea, Ohio. Notes on the posting: The Patrick Creighton mentioned in this article is my ancestor. His son, my ancestor John Patrick Creighton, was the brother of the James Creighton in the article who married an Annie Creighton of another family. Like my ancestor Jeroboam Baer Creighton, the grandson of Patrick of Donegal, Ireland, these people were mainly in Stark County or Summit County - all three are buried there, Patrick I-know-not-where; John Patrick in Waynesburg, though he died in Brown Township, Carroll County, and Jeroboam (born in Paris Township) in Akron. These, then, are their Carroll County cousins. Oddly, like J. B. Creighton's daughter, Margaret Ida Creighton (who married Frederick Beaumont Mason - my great-grandparents) - the Carroll County folk seem to be into education! Margaret Ida Creighton was a school-teacher in Akron and Barberton. There are MASON folks in this list too, but no relation to my MASON family, as far as I know at the present time. Source listed below found in Cleveland Public Library: Judge H. J. Eckley and Judge William T. Perry, "History of Carroll and Harrison Counties, Ohio (Chicago and New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1921) Vol II, pp. 700-701: "James R. Creighton is still identified with farm industry in his native county, though the major part of his present homestead, which originally comprised 140 acres, has been by him platted into town lots in the village of Malvern, to which he has thus laid out three additions. For farm purposes he still retains thirty acres, and he is one of the substantial and progressive citizens of Carroll County. James Ross Creighton was born in Brown Township, this county, October 6, 1851, and is a son of Thomas M. and Mary A. (Ross) Creighton, the former of whom was born on a pioneer farm north of Waynesburg, Stark County, Ohio, in 1826, and the latter was born in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in 1825. Thomas M. Creighton was a son of James and Annie (Creighton) Creighton, the former of whom was born in Ireland and the latter was born on the sailing vessel "Minerva" on which her parents had taken passage from Ireland to America. Both the Creighton and the Ross families trace their lineage back to staunch Scotch origin. James Creighton was a child at the time of the family immigration to America, and his father, Patrick Creighton, established a home in Stark County, Ohio, where he became a pioneer family and where he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives. James Creighton was reared in Stark County under the conditions of the pioneer days, and there he continued as an exponent of farm enterprise throughout his entire active career, both he and his wife having been residents of that county at the time of their deaths. Thomas M. Creighton passed the period of his childhood and early youth on the old home farm in Stark County, and his educational advantages were those of the common schools of the locality and the period, he having become specially proficient as a mathematician. He remained in Stark County until 1849, when he purchased a farm in Brown Township, Carroll County, where the family home was maintained for the ensuing ten years. He then went to Iowa, with the intention of securing land in that state, but after an absence of about one year he returned to Ohio and settled in Columbiana County. Five years later he again came with his family to Carroll County and resumed his activities as a farmer in Brown Township, where he purchased land and became one of the county's successful agriculturalists and stock-growers, as well as a citizen of prominence and influence in his community. He served nine years as county commissioner and was one of the active and prominent workers in the ranks of the republican party in Carroll County. Both he and his wife were earnest members of the Christian Church. His death occurred in 1895 and his widow passed away in 1902. James R. Creighton, the immediate subject of this review, gained his early education in the public schools of Columbiana and Carroll Counties, in which latter county he continued his association with farm industry until he was thirty years of age, when he purchased and removed to a farm in Warren County, Iowa, where he remained for fifteen years and met with success as one of the vigorous agriculturists of the Hawkeye state. At the expiration of the period noted he sold his property in Iowa and returned to Carroll County, where he purchased 140 acres of land lying contiguous to the village of Malvern. He has laid out from this land three additions to the village, and much of the property is now improved with good houses. In this way he has contributed definitely to the advancement and upbuilding of Malvern and he still finds satisfaction in supervising the operations of his farm, which is now of modest area but which is specially well improved. Mr. Creighton is a stalwart supporter of the cause of the republican party, but has had no desire for public office. Both he and his wife are active members of the Christian Church at Malvern, and in the community their circle of friends is limited only by that of their acquaintances. On the 21st of November, 1878, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Creighton to Miss Mary Reed, who was born in Brown Township, this county, May 7, 1854, a daughter of James and Mary (Ayers) Reed and a representative of one of the oldest and best known pioneer families of Carroll County. James Reed was a son of James, Sr., who was a son of John Reed, the founder of the family in Brown Township, where he settled in the early pioneer period. James Reed, Sr., was the father of six children: Abraham, Washington, Joseph, Mary, Drusilla and James, Jr. James Reed, Jr., continued as one of the representative farmers of Brown Township until his death, his entire life having been passed in Carroll County. In conclusion is given brief record concerning the children of Mr. And Mrs. Creighton: Drusilla Ione, who was born August 18, 1879, is the wife of F. Q. Mason, of Carroll County, and they have had five children, Frederick (deceased), Gladys, Gertrude, Louise and Margaret. Laura E., who was born in Warren County, Iowa, August 25, 1883, was, like her older sister, afforded the advantages of Malvern High School, and later she pursued higher studies in Wooster University and the Northern Ohio Normal University at Ada, she being a successful and popular teacher in the public schools of Ohio and being at the present time a teacher at Malvern (1920). Thomas M., who was born in Warren County, Iowa, September 26, 1887, acquired his preliminary education in the schools of his native county and was later graduated in the high school at Malvern, after the return of the family to Carroll County. For two years he was a student in Bethany College at Bethany, West Virginia, and thereafter he attended for one year the Tri-state Normal School at Angola, Indiana. He further continued his educational work by four years of study in the Northern Ohio Normal University, and by one year of study in the University of Ohio. He graduated from the Northern Ohio Normal University with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He devoted two years to the study of law and is at the time of this writing, in 1920, a student in the historic old Jefferson Medical College in the city of Philadelphia. The fourth child, a son, died in infancy." Al Dawson, Berea, Ohio - MA, History, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1973. My Webpage: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/a/w/Al--Dawson/ Surnames include ("Mary and John" passengers) GRANT, GILLETT, WOLCOTT, PHELPS, GRISWOLD, HOLCOMBE, FORD, COOK, CHARD ("Mayflower") FRANCIS COOKE, STEPHEN HOPKINS, JOHN ALDEN PRISCILLA MULLINS, THOMAS ROGERS and WILLIAM BRADFORD Al is a daily pilgrim to http://www.thehungersite.com/ - every click helps :) AND Proud member IBSSG- see http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~blksheep/ --------OHFOOTSTEPS Mailing List--------