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Title:  History of Henry and Fulton Counties, Ohio
Authors:  Aldrich, Lewis Cass.
City of Publication:  Syracuse, N.Y. :
Publisher:  D. Mason & Co.,
Publication Date:  1888

Transcribed by Linda Talbott

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Page 655

CREAGER, Gideon G., Harrison, Napoleon p.o., a prominent early settler of
Harrison township, was born in Maryland in 1810 and was a son of Cornelius
and Mary Creager, and a grandson of Conrad Cornelius, who settle in
Dayton, Montgomery county, O., in September, 1812.  The father died in
Seneca county in 1841.  He was born in 1798.  His wife died in Henry
county in 1866, at the age of seventy-seven years.  They had a family of
ten children, two of whom are now living: Mrs. Mary Lamberson and Gideon
G., who married Christina Shonkwiler, of Seneca county, O., in 1838.  They
have had a family of thirteen children, nine of whom are now living:
Harriet, Jemimah, Daniel, Caroline, Oren, Margaret, Veona, Mary, Clement
L., and Benjamin died leaving a family of four children.  G. G. Creager
settled in Harrison in 1852 on his present homestead of 160 acres, paying
therefor two dollars and fifty cents per acre.  He has twenty-eight
grandchildren and three great grandchildren.  Cornelius was a professional
teacher and Gideon also followed that vocation early in life.

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