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William L. Creel is a 7th Generation of the Creel Family of Virgina from the 1700's. He descended from Charles Creel's first
son Micajah.
Dedicated To Betty Goldsmith, 1933-1997
Daughter of Willie Effie Creel & William Tell Goldsmith
Betty Goldsmith encouraged me to start on this journey in 1985.
William L, Creel
Stewart family information is furnished by Norma L. Creel at
nc78681@sbcglobal.net
Charles Creel was born Circa. 1756 in Orange County, Virginia and died June 17, 1822 in Greensburg, Green County, Kentucky. The 1780 records finds Charles Creel in Orange County, Virginia.
The 1782 Records of Enumeration, 1782-85, found Charles Creel, Charles Rigney, Achilles Stapp, Joshua Stapp, Joshua Stapp Jr. and Thomas Stapp all in Orange County, Virginia on the list of Thomas Barbour. The 1788 records finds Charles Creel in Fayette County, Kentucky.
The Creels were a part of a large group of settlers that had come to South Central Kentucky from Orange County, Virginia. Charles Creel with wife Sarah and sons came with the Stapp, Garnett, Atkin, and Dahoney Families. Associated with them were some other families-Burbridge, Bridgewater, Lightfoot, Nelson, Grady, Jones, Yates and Waggener.
Charles Rigney is found in the 1782 records of Pittsylvania County, Virginia and in Orange County, Virginia in 1785. He married Mary (?). His son Jesse Rigney was bom in Virginia and died in Greensburg, Green, Kentucky. Descendants of Jesse include Anderson Rigney, James Monroe Rigney, Samuel Chambliss Rigney, and Robert Lee Rigney.
The Creel, Rigney and Stapp descendants lived in, and migrated from, the same parts of Virgina and Kentucky before taking different routes to Texas. Jesse Rigney lived in Green County, Kentucky at the same time as Elijah and Micajah Cager Creel, jr. and other Creels. The Stapp Family is recorded in Virginia in the same counties as Charles Creel. They migrated to Kentucky just as the Creel and Rigney Families. The Stapps of Texas are recorded in Williamson County Texas.
The Creel and Stapp families were joined by the marriage of Charles Creel and Sarah Stapp, daughter of Joshua Stapp Jr. and Hannah Durham. The Creel and Rigney families were joined by the marriage of Louis Guy Creel, Sr., son of William Robert Creel and Neva Irene Crenshaw, and Ione Rigney, daughter of Robert Lee Rigney and Nora Patts, in Hunt County, Texas in 1924.
The Creel and Stewart families were joined by the marriage of William L. Creel and Norma Lenore Stewart in 1964.
For more Creel Family History, please see the file below.
Our research on the Creel family is ongoing and may be shared.
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- Elijah Creel Home in Greensburg, Kentucky (33 KB)
The home of Elijah Creel and wife Malinda Waggener Creel. Elijah was one of seven sons born to Charles Creel and wife Sarah Stapp Creel.
- Waller Cemetery, Ben Franklin, Delta, Texas (299 KB)
The grave site of James Monroe Rigney and wife Julia Hooks Bell Rigney.
- Elijah Creel Grave (33 KB)
The grave cover of Elijah Creel near Greensburg, Green, Kentucky.
- Head Stone of James Monroe Rigney and Wife (413 KB)
Headstone of James Monroe Rigney and Julia Hooks Bell Rugney in the Waller Cemetery.
- The Lodge at Creel, Mexico (82 KB)
The Lodge at Creel, Mexico is a nice facility for tourist. Picture furnished by Guy Creel, Jr.
- Malinda Creel Grave (22 KB)
Malinda Waggener Creel's grave cover near Greensburg, Green, Kentucky.
- Elijah Creel's Home in Columbia, Kentucky. (18 KB)
The Elijah Creel home in Columbia, Kentucky, built ca. 1818, as it appears today as the Grrissom, Maupin and Heskamp Funeral Home.
- Headstone of Anderson Rigney (63 KB)
Anderson Rigney, father of James Monroe Rigney, located in the Cundiff Cemetery on the Cundiff Farm near Liberty, Casey, Kentucky.
- Elijah and Malinda's Grave Covers. (121 KB)
Elijah and Malinda are buried side by side in the Taylor-Creel cemetery behind Elijah's Greenburg, Kentucky home. Picture furnished by Roy Creel.
- Creel Cemetery, Green County Kentucky. (32 KB)
The Creel Cemetery where Charles, wife Sarah, son Elijah and Elijah's wife Malinda are buried. All four graves have identical full length grave covers.
- Adair County Courthouse. (13 KB)
The present day courthouse in Columbia, Adair, Kentucky.
- Marriage Book, Gibson, Tennessee (370 KB)
A page from the marriage book of Crenshaw and Creel people in Tennessee.
- The Taylor-Creel Cemetery. (195 KB)
The Taylor-Creel Cenetery contains the graves of Charles Creel, wife Sarah (Stapp) Creel, son Elijah and Elijah's wife Malinda (Waggener) Creel. The cemetery is on private property and receives little, if no, maintaince or care. Picture furnished by Roy Creel.
- The Robert Lee Rigney Family (22 KB)
Robert Lee Rigney, Nora Patts and thier children in Leonard, Fannin, Texas. Robert Lee was a son of James Monroe Rigney of Ben Franklin, Delta, Texas.
- Elijah Creel Home (641 KB)
A photo of Elijah Creel's home during 1819 located in Munfordville, HArt County, Kentucky. Hart County Court was held in Elijah's Home.
- A Creel lost in a foreign country. (240 KB)
Seoul Korea in the 1950's.
- Reuben Creel Historical Plaque. (23 KB)
This plaque is near the old court house in Greensburg. Reuben was the son of Elijah and Malinda Creel.
- Charles "Ben" Stewart, Isaiah Stewart & children. (57 KB)
Charles Benjamin "Ben" Stewart, his father Isaiah "Bud" Stewart and family children.
- William L. Creel (18 KB)
Bill is the author of this web site.
- A Springfield Trapdoor Rifle. (63 KB)
This rifle was produced in the first quarter of 1890 and might have been a type carried by Thomas
Jefferson Creel as the family migrated to Texas
from Missouri.
- Enrique (Henry) Clay Creel. (25 KB)
This plaque stands near the old court house in Greensburg, Kentucky.
- Suedekum Family, Newport, Kentucky 1866 (112 KB)
Family of Karl August Edmond Suedekum and Bertha During Suedekum in Newport, Kentucky 1866.
- Cassie, a great German Shepherd! (84 KB)
Our Cassie gave us love, devotion and everything possible for a dog to give. We lost her on March 30, 2006. We miss her.
- Green County Courthouse, Greensburg, Ky. (47 KB)
The old Green County Courthouse that is now a museum.
- The Plaza in Creel, Mexico. (29 KB)
A scene of the plaza in the town of Creel, Mexico not far from the Copper Canyon and Mt. Creel.
- Creelsboro, Kentucky Main Building. (17 KB)
Creelsboro, Kentucky was established by Elijah Creel and his brother Elzy.
- Louis Guy Creel, Sr. (84 KB)
Dad on his Indian motorcycle at Wesley College outside Greenville, Texas where he met his future wife Ione Rigney.
- A Broadside after the Mexican Revolution. (43 KB)
An important broadside issued by M. Chao, Military Governor of the State of Chihuahua several days after being installed as same by Pancho Villa.
Villa assumed this office but transfered it to Chao in deference to Carranza and to attend to other duties. It is a Notice to the Public that only currency of the new government can be circulated until January 31, 1914 and after that those circulating them will be subject to penalties as couterfeiters (usually death!). An important document showing the consolidation of authority and the struggle for change and control by Villa and his followers after their overthrow of the dictator Porfirio Diaz.
- Historical Plaque at Creelsboro, Kentucky. (25 KB)
This historical plaque was erected by the Commonwealth of Kentucky. As of about two years ago the marker has been stolen and not replaced. Glad I got a picture on our first trip to Kentucky.
- Statue of Enrique Clay Creel (67 KB)
This bust of Henry Clay Creel stands in the town of Creel, Mexico. Photo courtesy of Guy Creel, Jr.
- Thomas J. Creel and Mary C. Atkins Headstones. (258 KB)
Headstones of Thomas Jefferson Creel and wife Mary Catherine Atkins in the Royce City, Texas. Cemetery..
- Elijah Creel's Grave (202 KB)
A better picture of the grave cover courtesy of Roy Creel.
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- The Bell Family Connection (11 KB)
Julia Hooks Bell married James Monroe Rigney in Casey County, Kentucky July 20, 1856.
- The Chambliss Family Connection (6 KB)
John Chambliss was born abt. 1630 and settled in Virginia abt. 1652. Martha Chambliss (Peter, John, Henry, John) married second husband Thomas T. Bell April 20, 1837 in Lake Providence, Carroll County, Louisiana.
- The McDaniel Connection (6 KB)
Mabel Rigney, daughter of Robert Lee Rigney and Nora Patts, married Allen Ray McDaniel.
- Creel History (1 KB)
Facts about Charles, Sarah, their children and their migration.
- The Town of Creel, Mexico (1 KB)
The Creel family connection in Mexico.
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