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Descendants of Charles Creel

7. Elijah² Creel (Charles¹) was born August/29/1789 in Fayette Co. Kentucky, and died June/03/1833 in Greensburg, Green, Kentucky. He married (1) Ermine Embry December/11/1811 in Greensburg, Green, Kentucky, daughter of Henery Embry and Ann Patterson. She died 1826. He married (2) Malinda Waggener April/11/1814 in Adair Co Ky marriage book-Edwin Hall-John Grady, daughter of Rueben Waggener and Catherine Coleman. She was born January/26/1799, and died November/11/1835 in Green County, Ky..

Notes for Elijah Creel:
Elijah, along with his brother Elsey, laid out Creelsboro, Kentucky in 1807. It was officially founded in 1817. Creelsboro was originally in Adair County, but is now in Russell County which was formed in 1825. Creelsboro is located on the Cumberland River. The town was a shipping point for crops, and other goods, down the Cumberland River to Nashville, and on to New Orleans.

The house Elijah built in Columbia was completed in1818. It is believed that Elijah never lived there, but was only occupied by his brother, and business partner, Elsey. It was once known as the Creel-Page house and today is the Grissom, Maupin and Heslamp Funeral Home. The house was built on Lot 63 of the original town lay out. At one time or another, Elijah owned 18 lots in Columbia. In 1816 he bought lot 60 from Nathan Montgomery on the corner of the Court House square and Campbellville Street. He built a brick building on the lot where he and Elsey ran a general store. It is the only original building on the square still standing.

Elijah's house, a Federal style structure in Greensburg, Kentucky, built in 1820, is the featured house on the cover of the book "Historic Architecture of Green County, Kentucky" by the Green County Historical Society. The house is well maintained and currently occupied. This home must have been on the tobacco plantation that Elijah established near Greensburg, Kentucky. From the rear it over looks a small valley that was apparently part of the plantation. Elijah died in 1833, Malinda in 1835 and are both buried on the property of what is now East Columbia Avenue, part of the present day Greensburg.

DEEDS: Cumberland County, KY Deed Book B Abstracts 1815
Abstracts from Cumberland County Deed Book B (1815). All are land transactions unless otherwise noted. Taken from an old
typed copy belonging to the late Eva Coe PEDEN, a Barren/Monroe Co researcher whose lines crossed into Cumberland Co.
Submitted by Sandi Gorin.
Elijah Creel fought in the War of 1812.
John WILLIMS, power of atty to E & E CREEL - service pay in Capt. James GHOLSON's Co, upper Canady [sic].
Elijah & Malinda CREEL of Adair Co, KY; Elsey & Rosamah CREEL of Cumberland to George D TOBIN - town lot.
E John ELLIS, private 7th Regt KY Militia - in Canada, power of atty. to
Elijah CREEL, re loss of horse at Lake Erie.
Unity Hooker EMERSON, guardian of the infant heirs of Francis EMERSON to E & E CREEL, town lots.
M Joshua MARTIN, power of atty to Elijah CREEL of Adair Co KY.
John McCHORD returns horse to war office. John McCHORD re return of horse to war office, cosigned payment to E & E CREEL.
Samuel WILSON, power of atty to Elijah CREEL of Adair Co re claim against government re lost horse in war.

Court Order Book 8
Sept. 19, 1825 , page 2
On the Motion of Elijah CREEL, ordered that Peter B. ATWOOD, Ben F. COOK, Anthony
WAGGONER and Daniel NOLLEY, any two of them to settle the accounts of Elijah CREEL as
guardian of Benjamin S. CREEL and as Exc. of Eliza S. CREEL and report the same to court

Last Will and Testament: Wife Malinda gets 1/3 of my Estate during her lifetime, then to be equally divided among my Children; The other 2/3 is to be divided into three equal parts. One part to my son, Reuben W. Creel, one part to my son, Charles H. Creel and the other to my daughter, Ermine C. Creel. If the portions of Reuben and Ermine exceed in value the estate which my son, Henry E., received from his guardian when he is 21 being the property given to Henry E. Creel by his Grandfather, Henry Embry, then I wish deduction made from my other children to make it equal. If the portion of my present wife does not exceed in value the amount Henry will receive at age 21 under the Will of his Grandfather, then I wish my son H. E. Creel to have no part of my Estate, my other children being young and yet to raise and educate and Henry E. being well provided for. If my wife has other children before my death of expecting a child at my death, it is to have equal proportions of my Estate with my children by my present wife, to wit: Reuben W., Charles H., and Ermine C. Creel.
Executor: Thomas W. Lisle
Signed: Elijah Creel
Witness: Henry E. Creel
R.A. Taylor
Benjamin C. Hord
Codicil, 29 April, 1833; I desire that my tobacco factory be carried on until all the tobacco that I have at the time of my death is worked up. If Thomas W. Lisle does not qualify as Executor I then appoint my friend, Henry Embry as Executor, no security required.
Signed: Elijah Creel
Attest: Sally T. Creel, Henry E. Creel
Produced: 17 June, 1833, Thomas W. Lisle
Proven by: Richard A. Taylor, Benjamin C. Hord
Recorded: 24 June, 1833 by R.H. Roundtree

More About Elijah Creel:
Burial: June/1833, Taylor-Creel cemetery on the Elijah Creel home property

Marriage Notes for Elijah Creel and Ermine Embry:
Green Co. Marriage Book A 1793-1836. This was published by the Green Co Historical Society.
CREEL, Elijah to EMBRY, Ermine, 18 Dec 1811.

More About Elijah Creel and Ermine Embry:
Marriage: December/11/1811, Greensburg, Green, Kentucky

Notes for Malinda Waggener:
Malinda is buried at the Creel / Taylor Cemetery, Greensburg Kentucky.

More About Malinda Waggener:
Burial: November/1835, Taylor-Creel cemetery on the Elijah Creel home property

More About Elijah Creel and Malinda Waggener:
Marriage: April/11/1814, Adair Co Ky marriage book-Edwin Hall-John Grady
Marriage Fact: April/11/1814, Adair Co Ky marriage book-Edwin Hall-John Grady

Child of Elijah Creel and Ermine Embry is:

Henry Embry³ Creel, born 1812 in Green County, Kentucky.

Children of Elijah Creel and Malinda Waggener are:

+	49	i.	Reuben Waggener³ Creel, born 1815 in Green County, Kentucky; died 1873 in Mexico.
+	50	ii.	Charles Creel, born Unknown; died November/24/1902 in McDonough County, Illinois.
	51	iii.	Ermine Catherine Creel, born 1819. She married Mr. Peters.

8. Elsey ( Elzy )² Creel (Charles¹) was born 1792 in Wofford Co. Kentucky, and died 1840 in Marion County, Kentucky. He married (1) Rosannah Tobin June/08/1813 in Washington County, Kentucky, daughter of Robert Tobin and Sarah Hardin. She was born 1790, and died May/25/1828 in Washingtio County, Kentucky. He married (2) Elizabeth Harrison Chandler October/29/1829 in Washington Conty Kentucky. She was born 1798 in Lebanon, Ky., and died 1863 in Marion County, Kentucky.

Notes for Elsey ( Elzy ) Creel:
Elsey ( Elzy ) and his brother Elijah laid out the town of Creelsboro, Kentucky in 1807 and founded in 1817. Creelsboro was originally in Adair County, but is now in Russell County which was founded in 1825.

Creelsboro is located on the Cumberland River.

DEEDS: Cumberland County, KY Deed Book B Abstracts 1815

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Abstracts from Cumberland County Deed Book B (1815). All are land transactions unless otherwise noted. Taken from an old
typed copy belonging to the late Eva Coe PEDEN, a Barren/Monroe Co researcher whose lines crossed into Cumberland Co.
Submitted by Sandi Gorin.

T Isaac & Polly TAYLOR to Joseph H TOBIN, town lot. William and Jemima TAYLOR to Wilson CARY. Joseph H TOBIN to Elsey CREEL.
John WILLIAMS to Peter & John SIMERMAN, power of att. for military service Capt. Edward WILBOUR'S Co under Major Gen.
THOMAS. John WILLIMS, power of atty to E & E CREEL - service pay in Capt. James GHOLSON's Co, upper Canady [sic].
Elijah & Malinda CREEL of Adair Co, KY; Elsey & Rosamah CREEL of Cumberland to George D TOBIN - town lot. Joseph CROMEN
to Asa ELLIOTT. D Moses DAVIS to John MARTIN. E John ELLIS, private 7th Regt KY Militia - in Canada, power of atty. to
Elijah CREEL, re loss of horse at Lake Erie.
Francis EMERSON to Robert CHAMP. Francis EMERSON to Samuel BURKS. Unity Hooker EMERSON, guardian of the infant heirs of
Francis EMERSON to E & E CREEL, town lots.
John McCHORD returns horse to war office. John McCHORD re return of horse to war office, cosigned payment to E & E CREEL.

More About Elsey Creel and Rosannah Tobin:
Marriage: June/08/1813, Washington County, Kentucky

Notes for Elizabeth Harrison Chandler:
Marion County, KY 1850 Federal Census (INDEX - File 1 of 5)

399b 15 Creel Elizabeth 53 KY pg0399b.txt
399b 18 Creel Susan 20 KY pg0399b.txt

More About Elsey Creel and Elizabeth Chandler:
Marriage: October/29/1829, Washington Conty Kentucky
Marriage Fact: October/29/1829, Marriage Index: KY, NC, TN, VA, WV, 1728-1850

Children of Elsey Creel and Rosannah Tobin are:

+	52	i.	Sally Tobin³ Creel, born 1814 in Kentucky.
+	53	ii.	Robert Elzy Creel, born 1825 in Washingtio County, Kentucky.
	54	iii.	Charles Creel, born Unknown.
	55	iv.	Malviinia Creel. She married Samuel White.
	56	v.	Harriet Ann Creel. She married George R. Buckner.

Child of Elsey Creel and Elizabeth Chandler is:

Susan³ Creel, born 1830 in Washingtio County, Kentucky; died 1862 in Marion County, Kentucky.

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