Freestone County, Texas
Biographies 



Biography of James McCreight
  (Jan. 12, 1810-Aug. 18, 1870, buried Peoria Cemetery in Peoria, Hill Co., Tx.)

Source - A Memorial and Biographical History of Hill County, Texas
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892

JAMES McCREIGHT, deceased, was a native of South Carolina, born in 1812, the 
fifth of six sons of Robert McCreight, also a native of South Carolina.  James
moved with his parents to Alabama in an early day, and in 1838 to Chickasaw
county, Mississippi, where he engaged in farming.  In 1850 he came to Texas,
first settling in Freestone county, and four years later came to Hill county.
He pre-empted a piece of land on White Rock, and in 186- he bought the present
family home, where he died in 1870.

Mr. McCreight was married in 1836 to Elizabeth Skinner, who was born in Alabama
in 1819, a daughter of Nathan Skinner, a native of South Carolina.  The latter
was born in 1775, and moved to Alabama in an early day.  Mr. and Mrs. McCreight
had eight children, four of whom still survive:  Sarah Jane, Nancy Ann, Thomas
J. and A. J.  One son, Marion, was a member of the Twelfth Texas Cavalry, under
Colonel Parsons, and died after the close of the war.  Mrs. McCreight has a 
good far of 150 acres, well tilled, and the family are thrifty and hard-working 
people.