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3. HARDY HOUSTON5 CREEL (ELIJAH4, WESLEY3, THOMAS2, JOHN1)48,49,50,51 was born 04 Jul 1898 in Mobile County, AL52, and died 24 May 1976 in He died at his home in Grand Bay, Mobile Co, AL; buried Mobile Mermorial Garden Cemetery,53,54,55,56. He married (1) JESSIE FOSTER 24 Apr 1915 in (listed as Hardy Creal) Bk 46 pg 571 Marriage Source: Mobile County Courthouse Website (Marriage Records)57,58. He married (2) DELLA MAE WIGGINS59,60 17 Aug 1917 in (listed as Hardy Creal) Bk 48 Pg 293 Marriage Source: Mobile County Courthouse Website (Marriage Records) in home of brides parents, C. C. Wiggins, Bulter, Choctaw County, AL60,61, daughter of CHRISTOPHER WIGGINS and MARTHA OWENS. She was born 20 May 1898 in Bulter, Choctaw County, AL62, and died 18 Jan 1994 in Mobile Mermorial Garden Cemetery, Mobile County, AL63.

Notes for HARDY HOUSTON CREEL:
Obit from local paper:
Mobile AL Newspaper Mobile Paper
CREEL, SR.

Mr. Hardy Houston Creel, Sr.
A native of Grand Bay, Alabama, for a number of years, died at his residence
Monday, May 24, 1976. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Della Mae Wiggins Creel,
Grand Bay, Alabama; three daughters and five sons, 21 grandchildren, 32 great
grandchildren, nieces, nephews and other relatives. Funeral services will be
held from the Chapel of Radney Funeral Home, Thursday, May 27, 1976 at 2 p.m.
Interment will be in Mobile Memorial Gardens. Friends may call for visitation
at the Funeral Home, after 4 p.m. Wednesday, Funeral arrangements by Radney
Funeral Home, Dauphin St. extention, Mobile, Alabama.


[1]. Source: Family records of Patricia Creel, granddaughter and the living children of Hardy Creel & Della Wiggins Creel
[2]. 13 children from this marriage.
[3]. Hardy was living in Protestant Children's Home in 1900, and on census for that time with his mother and sibling. His name was listed as Harry Creal.
[4]. Mobile County Courthouse Marriage Records list CREAL on marriage record.
[5]. [DOCUMATION] Hardy's SS application looks like it was filled out by three people, and that Hardy just signed it. Because it is written in 3 hand writings. And listed with the CREAL as surname.
[6] Hardy and 1/2 brother Frank Stapleton ran away from the childrens home when Hardy was around 12 years old, going to live with Hiram and his cousin Barney Creel.
[7]. Hardy is on 1910 Census for Protestant Orphans Home, Mobile County, AL.
[8]. On 1920 census Hardy and Della are living with C.C. Wiggins, Della's Dad.
[9]. [DOCUMATION:] On Mobile County, AL 1930 census, Grand Bay
Hardy Creal H., HOH, W M Mar 33 occ farmer
Creal, Della M. wife W F mar 33
Creal, Hardy, Jr son w m S 11
Creal, Maye Belle daughter w f S 11
Creal, J. Harold son w m S 8
Creal, Esther daughter f w S 6
Creal, Ruth daughter w f S 4
Creal, Curtis son w m S 2
Also listed in same CREAL Household:
Christopher Mary (Wiggins) sister-in-law w f W 42 occ works in private home
Christopher Barney w m S 19 AL AL
Christopher w f S 7

[10]. [DOCUMATION:] Mobile County Courthouse: Bk 46, pg 159 Mobile County, AL marriage records, listed as CREAL, HARDY H and JESSIE FOSTER married April 24, 1915, divorced abt 1917
[Source:] MOBILE, ALABAMA PROBATE RECORDS

More About HARDY HOUSTON CREEL:
Also known as: Hardy Creal
Burial: 12 May 1976, Memorial Garden Cementry, Theodore, Mobile Co, AL
Cause of Death: heart problems
Census: 1900, Mobile County, AL, listed as Hary Creal, in Protestant Children's Home
Military service: Bet. 1917 - 1919, 1St SGT in Us Army WWI, serving in Arz & GA , USA; Italy and France.

Notes for JESSIE FOSTER:
[DOCUMATION:] Mobile County Courthouse: Bk 46, pg 159 Mobile County, AL ma rriage records, listed as CREAL, HARDY H and JESSIE FOSTER married April 2 4, 1915, divorced 1917

Foster Marriages, Bride Index, Mobile, Alabama
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/mobile/vitals/marriages/forsterbrds.txt
216 FOSTER , JESSIE CREAL , HARDY H 04/24/1915 - 46 571


More About HARDY CREEL and JESSIE FOSTER:
Marriage: 24 Apr 1915, (listed as Hardy Creal) Bk 46 pg 571 Marriage Source: Mobile County Courthouse Website (Marriage Records)64,65

Notes for DELLA MAE WIGGINS:
[NOTE:] Hardy & Della had a 50th Wedding Party Aug. 1967, at the home of their son and daughter-in-law, Harold & Sylvia Creal in Grand Bay, AL. The party was a great success with sibling, cousins, and various friends attending, and great food. Also, my Uncle had 2 small alligators swimming in the basement of his home.

[DOCUMATION:] book 48 pg 293 Mobile Co, AL records: CREAL, HARDY H and WIG GINS, DELLA MAE 08/14/1917, but married in Choctaw County, AL with the Wiggins family. Creal on marriage records.
[DOCUMATION:] SSDI card. Della Mae is daughter of Christopher Columbus (LU M) Wiggins and Martha S. (Mattie) Owens of Choctaw County, AL. Della is granddaughter of John Pittman Wiggins and Delila Strickland(lin). From Wiggins family records of daughters of Walter Wiggins.
[DOCUMENTED] Land Probate records, Mobile County Courthouse, Mobile, Alabama
[Source:] MOBILE, ALABAMA PROBATE RECORDS Web site
[1] Name CREEL DELLA M: Receipt # 1987045350; MICROFILM ONLY; Date 06/24/ 1987; Party Type GRANTEE; Document Type DEED; Book 3122, Page 634, #Leg al Description COMG.SW/4 SE/4 S 24 6S4W,ETC.
[2] Name CREEL DELLA M: Receipt #1987084390; MICROFILM ONLY; Date 12/03/1 987; Party Type GRANTEE; Document Type MINERAL INSTRUMENT; Book 3197, Page 90; #Legal Description MULTIPLE PRCLS- SEE INST.
[3] Name CREEL DELLA M: Receipt #1988056865; MICROFILM ONLY; Date 09/19/1 988; Party Type GRANTOR; Document Type DEED; Book 3323, Page 39; # Legal Description COMG SE COR.S 24 6S4W ETC.
[4] Name CREEL DELLA MAE: Party Type GRANTOR; Document Type DEED; Receipt #1987045290; MICROFILM ONLY; Date 06/24/1987; Book 3122, Page 637, # Legal Description COMG SE COR.S 24 6S4W, .ETC.
[5] Name CREEL DELLA MAE: Party Type GRANTOR; Receipt #1987075460; MICROF ILM ONLY; Date 10/26/1987; Document Type DEED; Book 3180, Page 138, # Legal Description COMG SE COR.S 24 6S4W, ETC.
[6] Name CREEL DELLA MAE: Receipt #1989021266; MICROFILM ONLY; Date 04/14 /1989; Party Type GRANTOR; Document Type AFFIDAVIT,STATEMENT; Book 3409, Page 716, # Legal Description COMG SW/4 SE/4 S 24 6S4W,ETC.
[7] Name CREEL DELLA MAE DEC'D EST: Receipt #93037223; MICROFILM ONLY; Date 06/16/1993; Party Type GRANTOR; Document Type DEED; Book 4058, Page 111 1, # Legal Description S 24 SW/4 SE/4/PT 6S4W
[8] HARDY H, CREEL/CREAL: Probate records, Mobile County Courthouse, Mobile, AL [DOCUMENTED] Probate Court Receipt # 1989021267; DOCUMENT TYPE: AFFI DAVIT, STATEMENT Recorded: 04/14/1989; Book: 3409 Page: 716 GRANTORS CRE EL HARDY HOUSTON DEC'D; LEGAL DESCRIPTION: COMG SW/4 SE/4 S 24 6S4W, ETC.
[9] Some of Hardy & Della's land was sold to: GRANTEES-Mr. HILL; GRANTORS- CREEL DELLA MAE DEC'D EST; Probate Court Receipt #: 93037223; DOCUMENT TYP E: DEED; Recorded: 06/16/1993; Book: 4058, Page: 1111, LEGAL LAND DESCRIPTION: S 24 SW/4 SE

More About DELLA MAE WIGGINS:
Burial: 20 Jan 1994, Memorial Garden Cementry, Theodore, Mobile Co, AL
Cause of Death: heart problems
Census: 1900, Choctaw County, AL

More About HARDY CREEL and DELLA WIGGINS:
Divorce: 1917, AL
Marriage: 17 Aug 1917, (listed as Hardy Creal) Bk 48 Pg 293 Marriage Source: Mobile County Courthouse Website (Marriage Records) in home of brides parents, C. C. Wiggins, Bulter, Choctaw County, AL66,67
     
Children of HARDY CREEL and DELLA WIGGINS are:
  i.   BABY6 CREAL68,69, b. Mobile County, AL; d. Stillborn.
  More About BABY CREAL:
Burial: Mobile County, AL
  ii.   LIVING CREAL, b. Mobile County, AL; m. ERKEL LUCILLE "OPAL" PARKS; b. 23 Feb 1912, Ark.; d. 23 May 1993, Mobile, AL.
  Notes for ERKEL LUCILLE "OPAL" PARKS:
Opal (Parks) Creel GRAND BAY, AL OBIT:
Erkel Lucille ``Opal´´ Parks Creel, a member of the Baptist Chapel, died M onday of cancer. Mrs. Creel, a native of Vilonia, Ark., was a resident of Grand Bay f or 52 years
Survivors include her husband of 49 years, Hardy H. Creel Jr. of Grand Ba y; two sisters, Katie Wilson of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Charlsie Garla nd of Conway, Ark.; and other relatives.
Preceded in death by her parents, Charlie & Laural Parks, Ark. Funeral ser vices will be today at 2 p.m. at Serenity Funeral Home, Old Pascagoula Rd ., Mobile County, AL.. Interment will be in Serenity Memorial Gardens.

[Note: Opal & Hardy Jr. did not have any children.]


  More About ERKEL LUCILLE "OPAL" PARKS:
AKS: Opal Creel
Burial: May 1993
  iii.   LIVING CREEL.
  iv.   LIVING CREEL.
  v.   LIVING CREAL, b. 1919.
  vi.   MAYE BELLE CREEL70, b. Abt. 1921, Orchard, County, AL; d. Mobile Memorial Garden Cemetery, Mobile County, AL; m. (1) WOODY AUSTIN71; m. (2) LEX TODD; d. Mobile County, AL.
  Notes for MAYE BELLE CREEL:
No children

  More About MAYE BELLE CREEL:
Burial: Theodore, Mobile County, AL
Census: 1930, Grand Bay, Mobile County, AL listed as Maye Belle Creal
Divorced: Mobile County, AL
Occupation: Nurse
Property: Owned home in Theodore, AL

  More About WOODY AUSTIN:
Divorced: Mobile County, AL
  vii.   HAROLD JAMES CREAL71, b. 09 Mar 1922, Orchard, Escambia County, AL; d. 24 Jan 2004, Mobile Memorial Gardens, Mobile County, AL72; m. SLYVIA SHERRELL73; d. 05 Sep 1996, Mobile Memorial Gardens, Mobile Couty, AL.
  Notes for HAROLD JAMES CREAL:
OBIT OF Harold James CREAL, Sr.:
Mr. Harold James CREAL -- born March 9th, 1922. A native of Orchard, AL and a lifelong resident of Grand Bay, Mobile County, died at the home residence of his brother Clayton Creel, on Saturday evening, January 24, 2004. Mr. CREAL was a member of the Widens, Deacon and Sunday School teacher at Friendship Baptist Church, Grand Bay, AL; member Bill Glass Prison Ministry, Electrical Supervisor at Baroquely Air Force Base, former owner of Bayou Heron Fish Camp, Pecan, Jackson County, MS; sponsored T-Ball and was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. Former owner of Ba Heron Fishing Camp, Pecan, MS. Mr. CREAL was preceded in death by his wife, Sylvia Sherrell CREAL and son, Harold James CREAL, Jr. His parents: Hardy Houston Creal/Creel & Della Mae Wiggins. Sisters: Lolla Creal, L. Creal, Iris Creel Walker, Maye belle Creel Austin Todd, Esther Creal Felps. Brother: John Creal; Sister in laws: Gloria [Pendarvis] Creel; Opal [Parks] Creel; brother in law Ernest [Esther] Felts. He is survived by three sons, Dale (Teresa) CREAL, Gerald (Ellen) CREAL a nd Robert (Beth) CREAL; sister, Ruth Creel (John) Howell; four brothers, Hardy Creel, Clayton (Linda) Creal, Alvin (Diane) CREAL, all of Grand Ba y, AL; and Curtis Creel, Escatawpa, MS; 16 grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; nieces, nephews and other relatives. Visitation will be 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Tuesday evening at the funeral home. Funeral services will be held from the chapel of Mobile Memorial Gardens Funeral Home on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 at 2:00 p.m. Interment will be in Mobile Memorial Gardens, Theodore, AL. Harold's grandson, Rev. Sam Creal & past and present pastors from Friendship Church officiating. The family wishes to express special thanks to Harold's Neice, Sonya Creal Reeves for her loving care. In lieu of flowers the family requests memo rials to The Gideons. Arrangements by MOBILE MEMORIAL GARDENS FUNERAL HOM E, Three Notch Rd., Mobile, AL.
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February 4, 1996
CREAL, Harold Jr. buried: Serenity Funeral Home, Old Pascagoula Rd, Mobile County, AL
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September 5, 1996
CREAL, Sylvia buried: Mobile Memorial Gardens, Theodore, Mobile County, AL; wife of Harold James Creal Sr

  More About HAROLD JAMES CREAL:
Burial: 24 Jan 2004, Mobile Memorial Gardens, Theodore, Mobile County, AL;
Census: 1930, Grand Bay, AL, listed as Harold Creal

  More About SLYVIA SHERRELL:
Burial: 05 Sep 1996, Mobile, Mobile County, AL;
  viii.   ESTHER CREEL74,75, b. 09 Mar 1924, Mobile County, AL; d. 13 Apr 1944, Jackson County Hospital, Pascagoula, MS76; m. ERNEST FELPS77,78,79; b. 08 Jun 1920; d. 22 Apr 1981, Mobile County, AL80.
  Notes for ESTHER CREEL:
Obit of Esther Creel/Creal Felts:
[Source:] Betty Rogers, Jackson County, MS, Archive Dept., Pascagoula, MS
[Source:] Death dates from headstone at Grand Bay Cemetry, Grand Bay, AL & Cherl Cotton
Funeral Services held Sunday for Mrs. Ernest Felps Funeral services for Mrs. Esther Creal Felps of Grand Bay, Ala., who died April 13, 1944 at the Jackson County Hospital, Pascagoula MS, were conducted Sunday from the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hardy Creal of Grand Bay, AL. The funeral procession went from the home, to the Free Methodist Church, where the Rev. Symco and the Rev. Ward officiated. Interment was in the Grand Bay Cemetery. Fails Funeral Home was in charge. Pall bearers were Hugh Fot, Bob Hoffman, Eugene McDonald, Orie Fitch and Mac Maxwell. Mrs. Felps, who was 20 years old, is survived by her husband, Capt. Ernest Felps stationed in England; two children, Barbara Ann and Ernest Timmy (Timothy); her parents, three sisters, Maybelle, Iris and Ruth; five brothers, Sgt. Hardy Creal, Sgt. Harold Creal, with armed forces overseas, Clayton, Curtis and Alvin Creal of Grand Bay, AL

  More About ESTHER CREEL:
Also known as: Esther Creal
Burial: 13 Apr 1944, Grand Bay Cementery, Grand Bay, Mobile County, AL

  More About ERNEST FELPS:
Burial: 1981, Grand Bay Cementery, Grand Bay, Mobile County, AL
  ix.   JOHN CREAL81, b. Abt. 1925, Mobile County, AL; d. Abt. 1929, Died from choking on popcorn.81.
  More About JOHN CREAL:
Burial: Mobile, Mobile County AL
  x.   LIVING CREEL, b. 1928; m. GLORIA PENDARVIS; b. 24 Jul 1932; d. 1993, Union Cemetery, Moss point, Jackson County, MS82.
  xi.   IRIS ETHAL CREEL83, b. 1934, Mobile County, AL; d. Mar 1997, Mobile Memorial Gardens, Mobile County, AL; m. ROBERT L. WALKER.
  Notes for IRIS ETHAL CREEL:
Mobile Register (AL)
Date: March 26, 1997
Author: LANIER
Edition: AM
Page: 12
Deceased Name: Iris Creel Walker
Iris Creel Walker, a native of Grand Bay and resident of Mobile, died Tuesday at a local hospital. She was 63. She was a member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church. Survivors include her husband, Robert L. Walker of Mobile; two sons, Raymond Walker of Mobile and Robert Walker of Columbus, Ga.; three daughters, Doris Walker of Irvington, Linda Sullivan of Paraland, Tex., and Wilda Moss of Daphne; five brothers, Harold Creel, Clayton Creel, Alvin Creel, all of Grand Bay, Hardy Creel of Theodore, and Curtis Creel of Pascagoula, Miss.; one sister, Ruth Howell of Grand Bay; and eight grandchildren. Visitation will be at 1 p.m. today with services at 3 p.m. at Mobile Memorial Gardens Funeral Home. Interment will be in Mobile Memorial Gardens.


  More About IRIS ETHAL CREEL:
Burial: Mobile Memorial Gardens, Theodore, Mobile Couty, AL;

  Notes for ROBERT L. WALKER:
Obituary in local paper:
(copied March 16, 1997)

Iris E. (Creel) Walker, a native of Grand Bay and resident of Mobile,
AL, died Tuesday at a local hospital from complications of heart
surgery. She was 63. She was a member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church. Preceded in death by her father Hardy Houston Creel; mother Della Mae (Wiggins) Creel, Four sisters Sister Mae Belle (Creal) Austin Todd; Esther (Creel) Felts, Lola Creal, Lottie Creal; one brother John Creal. Survivors include her husband, two sons, three daughters; five brothers and one sister; and eight grandchildren. Visitation will be at 1 p.m. today with services at 3 p.m. at Mobile Memorial Gardens Funeral Home. Interment will be in Mobile Memorial Gardens.

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[note:] Creal and Creel were both used in my family and their legal and
personal records.


  xii.   LOLA CREAL84, b. Jun 1937, Mobile County, AL; d. Jun 1937, From virus84.
  Notes for LOLA CREAL:
Lola Creal (twin to Lottie Creal) Death County: Mobile County; Vol: 30, Ce Certilicate: 14964, Roll: 3

  More About LOLA CREAL:
Burial: Jun 1937, Mobile County, AL
  xiii.   LOTTIE CREAL84, b. Jun 1937, Mobile County, AL; d. Jun 1937, From virus.
  Notes for LOTTIE CREAL:
Lottie Creal (twin to Lola Creal) Death County: Mobile County; Vol: 30, Ce Certilicate: 14965, Roll: 3

  More About LOTTIE CREAL:
Burial: Jun 1937, Mobile County, AL
Namesake: Maybe named after Rufus Creel wife, Lottie

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