Hello All,
I am the granddaughter of Aljron Fredrick Creech, son of John Wesley and Martha Creech. I will attach my information on this branch of the family - hope it comes across okay. Marsil Creech from New Mexico did extensive research on the Creech family, but died a while back. When I was reseaching she helped fill in some of the gaps. Her comment is below about the 1900 census in Osage Indian District is that John W. was a joker. My grandfather (Aljron) was on his own at age 12 - according to the stories I heard. He married my grandmother (Jorgine or Gina Madsen) who came to this country from Denmark on 3/7/1906. My uncle (Alfred Harold) was born in July 1909 in Billings MT - my mother (Ida Marie) was born in Nov 1910 in Billings MT. When Ida was 10 they moved to Shell Lake, WI to homestead on opened railroad land......they had stopped on the way in NE to see Esaw Creech and Garrett. Ida was close to her cousin Agnes Creech (daughter of Garrett and Eunice) - she eventually ended up in TX - she mentioned Aunt Alice (Butz) and corresponded with them.....but I never was in touch with them. All the children listed below were from the union between John W and Martha. I meet Fay Creech when my husband and I honeymooned in California in 1969.

Creech Family History
Husband: Carl Edmund FERGUSON
Wife: Shirley Marie COOK
Father: Harold Arnold COOK
Mother: Ida Marie CREECH
Grandfather: Aljron Fredrick CREECH
Grandmother: Ane Christine Jorgine Marie MADSEN
Great Grandfather: John Wesley CREECH
Great Grandmother: Martha Ann LYONS
2nd wife Florence LENA Jordon: 3rd Evelyn Conry

Great Great Grandfather: Esaw (Esau) Wilks CREECH
Great Great Grandmother: Elizabeth Jane WILLIAMS

Great Great Great Grandfather: Isaac CREECH
Great Great Great Grandmother: Mariah PENNINGTON

Husband:
Aljron Fredrick CREECH (Grandfather)
Birth date: 1/10/1889
Where: Augusta, KS
Death date: 10/22/1966
Burial: Shell Lake, WI

Married: 4/5/1908 in Billings, MT

Wife:
Ane Christine Jorgine Marie Madsen (Grandmother)
Birth date: 8/14/1886
Where: Filholm, DENMARK
Death date: 3/3/1963
Burial: Shell Lake, WI

Children
Alfred Harold CREECH
Birth date: 7/11/1909
Where: Billings, Montana (Yellowstone County) – SS # issued in Minnesota
Death date: 12/1972
Burial: Shell Lake, WI
Married Inez Bessie Born June 14, 1909: Died August 1981

Ida Marie CREECH (Mother)
Birth date: 11/10/1910
Where: Billings, MT (Yellowstone County) Born in a SODDY house.
Death date: 6/1986
Burial: Spooner, WI

Husband:
John Wesley CREECH (G Grandfather)
Birthdate: 5/20/1860
Where: Gatewood, Clay County Illinois
Death date: 4/7/1940
Burial: Pueblo, Colorado

Married 3/3/1879 in Clay County Illinois

Wife:
Martha Ann Lyons (G Grandmother)
Birthdate: 1/7/1858
Where: Clay County Illinois
Death date: 6/29/1904
Burial: Granada, Colorado (Prowers County)

Children:
Sylvester CREECH (Died as a baby, on the high prairie, Chase Co., Kansas)

Alice Victoria CREECH – Feb. 27, 1881 – Eureka, Kansas (Married Henry Charles Butz 1871-1940)

Grover Cleveland CREECH – Nov. 11, 1886-2/9/1971 –B: Eureka, KS (Barton Count) D: Basin, WY (Mount View Cemetery) WIFE: Clemie Lissie Wilson Children: Joe H. Creech (1911-1971)

Aljron Fredrick CREECH – Jan. 10, 1889 – 10/22/1966 Augusta, Kansas (Grandfather)-children listed above

Garrett Harrison CREECH – Feb 17, 1881 - 3/1966 (Died in Dallas TX) WIFE: Eunice Stevens
Children: Seth, Edgar, Esther, Agnes, Myrtle, Bessie 2/23/1917-7/16/2003 born in Central City, NE died in Duncanville, TX, and James 11/6/1919-10/1/2011 born in Central City, NE, died in Edmond, OK
On November 23, 1919 Esau-90 yrs (Grandfather) died at his home in Central City, NE

Roy CREECH – Died young – born 1895

Fay Elwood CREECH – Aug 14, 1896-12/1973 (Central City NE cemetery)Married Matilda (Mattie) Ann Doughman) 1895-1992


OTHER WIVES FOR JOHN WESLEY CREECH
2nd marriage to Florence Lena Jordon Born: 9/21/1874 Coffee Co. KS, Married on 7/23/1905 in Neat Coolidge, Hamilton Co., KS – she died 8/7/1945 in Nampa Canyon Co., Idaho. Buried Kohlerlawn Cem. In Nampa, Idaho

3rd Marriage to Evelyn Conry. Oct 2 1925 in York, Nebraska. Divorced soon after.

Note: Ward 3, Town: Billings, County: Yellowstone, State: Montana
1910 Census shows: John Creech (50 yrs) Married, Born: IL, Birth place of Father: VA, Birthplace of Mother: VA. Lena Creech (42 yrs) Married to John, Born: Kansas, Birth place of Father: IL, Birthplace of Mother: IL CHILDREN: Ray (16) KS, Fay (14) MO, Azaal daughter (5) KS

NOTE: In 1900 John Wesley was in Osage Indian District in Oklahoma gives his birth place as
France. He must have been a joker-records do contradict that. Some of this info came from a written statement by his father, Esaw/Esau CREECH elderly years. The dates are all messed up but otherwise the names work well.

NOTE: Osage Ind Dist Oklahoma-the Osage Indians of Oklahoma had their own territory before statehood. Oklahoma became a state ca. 1912 maybe-late anyway. So they are not listed in the regular Oklahoma census records. You have to check out the Indian census records for your family.

Note: August 1860 Census from Clay County Illinois. Ingraham Prairie
CREACH, Esan W. 26 Farmer, Born-Virginia. Elizabeth J. 27 Born-Virginia. Children: Laura (F) 5 yrs. Born Illinois. John W. (M) 3 mos. Born Illinois. Maria (F) 52 Born Kentucky. I believe Maria is Maria Pennington Mother of Esaw. This would make the Birthdates for Esaw 1833*, Elizabeth 1834* and Maria Pennington 1808**.


ESAW WILKS CREECH
ELIZABETH JANE WILLIAMS
Note: August 1860 Census from Clay County Illinois. Ingraham Prairie
CREACH, Esan W. 26 Farmer, Born-Virginia. Elizabeth J. 27 Born-Virginia. Children: Laura (F) 5 yrs. Born Illinois. John W. (M) 3 mos. Born Illinois. Maria (F) 52 Born Kentucky. I believe Maria is Maria Pennington Mother of Esaw. This would make the Birthdates for Esaw 1833*, Elizabeth 1834* and Maria Pennington 1808**.

(G G Grandfather)
Father of John Wesley CREECH
Esaw Wilks CREECH (twin brother Jacob?)
Born: 1/26/1829 (or 1/26/1829)
Where: Wise, Lee County, Virginia
Death date: 11/23/1919
Where: Central City, Neb. (Merrick Co., NE)

(G G Grandmother)
Mother of John Wesley CREECH
Elizabeth Jane Williams Parents of Elizabeth Jane Williams
Born: 1836 Edward Williams and Maria (Margaret) Ocheltree
Where: Baxter Co, Virginia Greenbrier/Braxton County West Virginia
Death Date: 1907 (Spring) (71 years old) married March 8, 1832 in Greenbrier County W. VA
Where: Waldron, Ark. (Scott County) Parents for Elizabeth:Hannah Blake & Isaac Ocheltree**

Married: January 4, 1860 in Clay County Ill.

**Trish Creech info.
Thomas Marion Williams was brother to Elizabeth Jane Creech
Edward & Margaret are in the 1850 Lewis County VA census, and then in the 1860 Clay County IL census. Thomas was in Boone County AR by 1880 (Long Creek Township), and lived in Boone County until he died in 1906.
PLEASE NOTE: Thomas Marion Williams and his wife Olive lived with Esaw & Elizabeth Creech family in about 1870-1872 according to his Civil War Pension file.

Children: Leander Louis or Lewis CREECH (G Uncle)
Birth date: 9/12/1868
Where: Clay County, Illinois
Death date: April 30, 1951
Where: Married: Otilia Evoline Fent (Born:December 1, 1873 – died 1941, Cottonwood Falls, Chase County KS)
Married: October 5, 1889
Lean¬der Louis Creech, was born in Coo Wee Scoo wee Dis¬trict, Chero¬kee Nation in Sep¬tem¬ber 1868. Coffeyville, KS in the Coo-ee-scoo-wee District. ????


Frederic Stephen CREECH (G Uncle)
Birthdate: Abt. 1876
Where:
Death date:
Where
Married: Annie Taylor 1901 in Coffeeville, KS

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John Wesley CREECH (G Grandfather)
Birthdate: 5/20/1860
Where: Gatewood, IL
Death date: 4/7/1940
Where: Pueblo, Colorado
Married: Martha Ann Lyons


Clinton Dewitt CREECH (G Uncle)
Birthdate: Bet 1861 – 1865 (Born during the Civil War )
Where:
Death date: Died as a small child
Where:
Married:

Drucille CREECH (Ellie or Effie) (G Uncle)
Birthdate:
Where:
Death date:
Where:
Married:

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BROTHERS & SISTERS of ESAW WILKS CREECH:
(GG Uncle)
Twin Brother of Esaw – Jacob CREECH???
1/26/1829 or 1824 or 1831-5/31/1860
Wife: Diana Lutes

(GG Aunt)
Sister of Esaw: Nancy CREECH Grimes
Born: Lee County VA, 6/22/1836-4/13/1909
Husband: Stephen Grimes 12/10/1853 Clay County VA


(G G G Grandfather) (G G G Grandmother)
Father of Esaw CREECH Mother of Esaw CREECH
Isaac CREECH (Died in Clay County Ill.) Mariah Pennington (Died in Clay County Ill.)
Born: VA abut. 1800 Born: Kentucky in 1806 or 1808. Died after 3/1/1860
See Death register.
Married: Abt. 1824
Where: VA

Children: They had 11

(G G G G Grandfather)
Maria/Mariah Pennington’s family
Father
Micajah PENNINGTON, Sr
Birthdate: December 13, 1763
Where: Wilkes Co. NC
Death date: aft. 1850
Where: Harlan County KY or Lee Co VA;

Mother:
Birthdate:
Where:
Death date:
Where:


BROTHERS and SISTERS of Maria/Mariah Pennington
Child 1: William Thomas Pennington, 1784
Child 2: Joshua Pennington, Abt. 1790
Child 3: James Daniel Pennington, 1797, NC or VA; d. Aft. 1891 Wildie, Rockcastle Co., KY
Child 3: Micajah Pennington, Before 1799
Child 4: Margaret Pennington, Abt. 1799, NC; d. Bef. 1880-1890, Jackson Co., KY
Child 5: Charles Pennington, November 26 1804, Lee Co., VA; d. November 11, 1876, Lee Co., VA
Child 6: Henry Pennington, Abt. 1807, NC
Child 7: Mariah Pennington, b. Abt. 1806 or 1808, KY

Deborah Gravett’s mother contributed information that Macajah Pennington, Sr. was responsible for starting the Virginia Minutemen.

Shirley Ferguson