OBIT: Infant CREELEY, 1860, Blair County, PA

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A HORRIBLE CASE. - The Tyrone Star of this week details a horrible
case of debauchery on the part of a woman in Ironsville, in this
county, and her consequent neglect of her child, some three weeks old.
A few days since, while she was lying on the porch in front of her
house, in a beastly state of intoxication, some neighbors were
attracted by the cries of the infant and on going into the house found
it lying on the floor covered in filth, and so emaciated as to
scarcely have the semblance of a human being. Its limbs were not
thicker than the finger of a man, and its feet and hands resembled the
claws of an animal, whilst its face was fairly distorted with the
pangs of hunger it was suffering. The child was taken up and cared for
by some of the humane neighbors, and a physician summoned, who was of
the opinion that it was so far reduced by actual starvation as to
leave little hope of its recovery. The inhuman mother, whose name is
Biddy Creeley, (her husband, Dennis Creeley, is now in jail on the
charge of threatening the lives of his neighbors,) was arrested
immediately and committed to jail on the charge of willfully and
cruelly neglecting and abandoning her child. She richly deserves a
term in the penitentiary.


Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, August 30, 1860, page 3


The child of Biddy Creely (whose arrest we noticed last week) died in
the Poor House on Thursday last.

Altoona Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, September 6, 1860, page 3

1860 United States Federal Census
Name: Ann Creeley
Age: 24
Birth Year: abt 1836
Gender: Female
Birth Place: Ireland
Home in 1860: Snyder, Blair, Pennsylvania
Dwelling Number: 745
Family Number: 758
Dennis Creeley 48
Ann Creeley 24
James Creeley 4