The [Scots-] Irish McCrearys, descendants of Randal MacRory, lived in county Tyrone, Province of Ulster, Ireland.1

 

 

Hugh McCreary

b. ?

m. Margarete

Hugh and Margarete lived in Manallen Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Hugh’s will was probated on October 6, 1808. In Hugh’s will he gives half of his plantation (near Brownsville, Pennsylvania) to his son James and half to his son John.

d. ?

nine children: James, John, Archable, Mary, Nancy, Margarete, Jane, Elizabeth, Rhoday, Sarah

 

James McCreary

b. October 19, 1768, Fayette County, Pennsylvania

m. March 11 or December 3, 1794 Mary Doughty (b. January 17, 1776, d. March 26, 1853)

James and Mary settled in Warren County, Ohio in 1798

d. May 1,1814, (of the cold plague) near Lebanon, Ohio (both buried in Baptist Cemetery at Lebanon, Turtle Creek Township, Warren County, Ohio)

nine children: Hiram, Permelia (married William Holcroft), Thomas, Eli, Alexander, Aletha, Catherine

 

Hiram McCreary

b. October 11, 1795

m. August 28 or April 6, 1818 Isabelle Skinner (b. 1798 d. 1883)

d. August 8, 1842, Monroe, Ohio, Butler County (both buried in Methodist Cemetery, Lebanon, Ohio)

nine children: (James S., Ayers, Austin, Clarisssa, Almira, John Skinner, Mary, Anna Maria, Janette

 

James S. McCreary

b. February 7, 1819 near Lebanon, Warren County, Ohio

m. October 28, 1846 Rachael Ann Boyd, Monroe, Butler County, Ohio (b. August 15, 1824 d. April 26, 1909) (Celebrated 50th Wedding Anniversary in 1896 at Edgerton, Kansas. Both buried in Gardner Cemetery)

d. January 10, 1901

children: William H., Mary Agnes, Hiram Cashes, Andrew George, Madonna Eugenia

 

Hiram Cashes McCreary

b. July 21, 1852 on farm Southwest of Monroe, Butler County, Ohio

m. January 3, 1877 Nannie Stewart (b. April 7, 1856 d. April 4, 1930)

d. February 1, 1931

children: Clarence Stewart, Ernest James, Agnes Jane

 

Clarence Stewart McCreary

b. March 25, 1880

m. November 19, 1903 Gertrude Cramer, Gardner, Kansas (b. December 6, 1883 d. April 27, 1980)

d. February 15, 1951

children: James Cramer

 

James Cramer McCreary I

b. June 24, 1908

m. March 2, 1929 Florence Helen XXXXX, Gardner, Kansas (b. November 25, 1909

d.

children: Richard Leigh, James Robert

 

Richard Leigh McCreary

m. Billie Claire XXXXX

children: Sheryl Ann, Janna Leigh

 

Sheryl Ann McCreary

m. Kelly Harmon

 

Janna Leigh McCreary

child: Dustin Graham

 

Dustin Graham McCreary

 

James Robert McCreary

b. Gardner, Kansas

m. September 12, 1964 Virginia Mary XXXXX, Chicago, Illinois

children: James Cramer McCreary II, Sean Michael McCreary

m. Judy XXXXX

children: Matthew Stewart McCreary

 

Virginia Mary XXXXX

b. January 12, 1939 Evergreen Park, Illinois

d. March 12, 1999 Hinsdale, Illinois

James Cramer McCreary II

b. Hinsdale, Illinois

 

Sean Michael McCreary

b. Hinsdale, Illinois

 

Matthew Stewart McCreary

 

 

Notes

 

1 The John McCreary Clan, by Miss Marjorie MacCreary

2 XXXXX denotes information censored to protect family members still living