Smith McCreight and Sarah Elizabeth Murphy

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Husband Smith McCreight ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 18 Jul 1832 - Jefferson Co, PA 1
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           Died: 10 Mar 1907 2
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         Father: Andrew McCreight (1787-1861) 1 3 4 5 6 7 8
         Mother: Ann Sharp (cal 1794-1858) 3 4 7 8

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       Marriage: 14 Mar 1863 - Brookville, Jefferson Co, PA 1

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Wife Sarah Elizabeth Murphy ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1842 - Westmoreland Co, PA 1
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         Father: James Murphy (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Susan McMurray (      -      ) 1

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Children

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1 M Thomas A. McCreight ²

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            AKA: Thomas McWright 9
           Born: 3 Apr 1864 - Jefferson Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Laura V. Beall (      -      ) 9
           Marr: 10 May 1888 2

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2 F Clara A. McCreight ^{2 10}

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         Spouse: Orville M. Grissinger (      -      ) 2

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3 F Anna S. McCreight ^{2 11}

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           Died: 1912 11
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         Spouse: Andrew Wheeler (1871-      ) 2 12
           Marr: 1896 11

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4 F Susan Beulah McCreight ^{2 10}

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         Spouse: R. P. Gardner (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Smith McCreight

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He was reared to manhood on his father's farm. He attended the common schools, and in early life took charge of the home place in company with his brother, Thomas S., caring for the father and mother until they died.

He and his wife passed all their married life on the old homestead farm in Winslow township, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, and his brother Thomas S. followed lumbering in the winter season and farming in the summer for some years. They afterward purchased one-half interest in a grist and saw mill, and the following year bought the other half. As the business increased they made extensive improvements on the property, placing $1,500 worth of new machinery in the gristmill. Just when the business had become profitable a destructive fire on August 25, 1877, swept away all their property-1,500 bushels of grain and 100,000 feet of dry pine lumber. No insurance was carried. This was a terrible trial, but their energy and enterprise were indestructible, and before the smoke of the debris had ceased to curl upward they had begun the erection of a modern mill. It was rapidly pushed to completion, and within four months of the date of the fire the "hustling brothers" were again ready for customers on a more extensive basis than before the fire. In 1881 the mill property was disposed of, and Smith McCreight began farming. In the autumn of 1884 he purchased and moved onto 200 acres of land in Hanover township, Washington County, known as the "Martin Tucker" farm. He made many improvements on the place: A handsome new dwelling was erected in 1890. It was located on an elevated spot, one of the highest in Washington County, affording a most delightful view of the surrounding country for many miles. Mr. McCreight was a Whig, afterward uniting with the Republican party. He and his wife were members of the U. P. Church at Paris.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 475.

2 Joseph F. McFarland, 20th Century History of Washington and Washington County, Pennsylvania and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1910), Pg 737.

3 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 44, 495.

4 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 428.

5 Robert Walter Smith, Esq., History of Armstrong County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins, & Co., 1883), Pg 203.

6 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 462.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 1096.

8 —, Biographical Annals of Franklin County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Genealogical Publishing Co., 1905), Pg 65.

9 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 701.

10 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 476.

11 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 550.

12 Joseph Riesenman, Jr., History of Northwestern Pennsylvania, Vol. III (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., Inc., 1943), Pg 549.