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Early Canadian records provide the following names in the account books of John and Philip Rutier at Missisquoi Baie (Philipsburg) John Bockus-1792, Peter Rosenberger-1793, Frederick Primerman, Mathias Cammel- 1795, Christopher and John Katebock (Catchpaugh/Catchpaw/Catchpazin) -1797. As these family names are found aligned with the Creller family either through marriage, or association ( business, neighbour, military) it has been assumed that the Creller family had settled in the area at about the same time period. While recorded evidence of the exact date of arrival of the Creller has not been discovered ( as of the year 2005) , much evidence of their births, marriages, deaths and burials permits one to accept the above mentioned assumption that the Creller were in the area as early as 1795.
Records exist showing that, in Stanbridge county, part of the old Seigniory of St Armand, one Peter and one Philip Creller , had each taken possession of some 1,000 acres of land on Sept 1, 1800. Documents at the Bureau de Registré du Quebec in Bedford, dated 1831, indicate that one David Creller, son of Peter, sold the lots that he had received from his father to one James McGill and Associates. The Canadian census records of 1825, 1831, 1842, and 1851 indicate that one Rufus Creller, and one Peter Creller were listed as residents of Stanbridge East ( County Missisquoi) The listing on the census record places their residence on what is known as Dutch Road ,located just south of Bedford Quebec, in the vicinity of what is now the Ploss Cemetery.
There are many Creller family stones still standing in this Ploss Cemetery .The sons of those interred there can be found buried in the cemetery at Mystic, Quebec, just north of Bedford, in the Stanbridge Ridge Cemetery, just west of St Armand and in the main cemetery in the town of Bedford itself. Later generations of this main Creller line can be found buried in the Clarenceville ,Quebec area and still others are located in the cemeteries of Alburgh Vermont.
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| Peter Creller
1785-1870 |
Rufus Creller
1787-1865 |
Polley Kimmel Creller
1792-xxxx |
| David Creller
1805- xxxx |
Philip Creller
1809-1875 |
Hannah Creller
1816-1871 |
From the information available (as of 2004) ,we know that Peter Creller was born in Red Hook NY and that his brother Rufus was born in Hoosic NY and that Polly was baptized in Schaghticoke NY . The names of the above children were culled from the records in the register's office in Bedford Quebec, the known dates confirmed with the inscriptions on the tomb stones found in the area. No record or any stone has been located for Phillip's wife, who we assume may have passed away before the family settled in the Stanbridge area. The fact that Polley Creller has been given the middle name of Kimmel or Cammel and given the assumption that the Kimmel or Cammel family was among the families that have been found to be associated with the Creller, one might assume that Phillip's wife was a Kimmel or Cammel. ( research still remains to be undertaken)
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Peter Creller moved to the Seigniory of Noyan, located further west of Phillipsburg ( Missisquoi), on the upper western part of the Baie. The land in that area was then owned by Colonel Christie, his land agent was William McGinnis.(as of 2004 we are still searching for the sale or rental transaction). Peter procured title to the lot of land described as lot 9, concession 7 of the then Seigneur de Noyan, property of Col Christie , and built himself a modest family home. At this location, Peter, we assumed met with the Denton family and married Orpha. Peter exercised the trade of farmer, through the births and deaths of his family members, his wife and finally himself.
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Creller Homestead
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| Before me Pierre Gamelin , a public Notary of this Her Majesty’s Province of Canada East, by lawful authority duly commissioned and sworn, residing in the town of Dorchester commonly called Saint Johns in the said province and Messrs. John Hawley of the seigniory of Foucault and Griffin Scriver residing in the seigniory of Noyan, in their Districts and Province aforesaid, and both farmers Witness hereunto required according to Law. Personally came and appeared Peter Creller, of the Seigniory of Noyan, in the District and province aforesaid, farmer, who being of sound and disposing mind, memory, and understanding, yet considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of its hour, has made dictated and named , fait dicté et nommé to me the said Notary in the presence of the said Witnesses, who have put and subscribed their names and signatures here to this present last Will and Testament , in the manner form following that is to say: First and principally I most willingly resign my soul into the hands of God Almighty in the humble Hope that he will receive it to His favour through the merits of His dearly beloved Son, our blessed Redeemer Jesus Christ - Secondly, That all my just debts and funeral expenses and the cost of a tombstone be paid by my executors hereinafter named as soon as possible after my death and I wish and I desire to be interred in the burial ground on Beechridge in the Parish of St. Georges in the Seigniory of Foucault . Thirdly, I give, divise & bequeath unto my beloved wife Orpha Denton , the enjoyment and usufruct, usufruit during her natural life of the whole of the real and personal property, Meubles et immeubles, I shall be possessed of, or entitled unto & to me belonging on the day of my death by the said Orpha Denton, which I make and institute my usufructuary legatary, enjoying the same as a good father of family would do , without being obliged to proceed to any inventory of the same, of which I the said Testator dispense here with by these presents and form the extinction of the enjoyment and usufructs, usufruits aforesaid, that is to say only after the decease of my beloved wife Orpha Denton. Fourthly, I give devise and bequeath to Rufus Horatio Creller , one of my sons the south half of the lot of land number nine in the seventh concession in the seigniory of Noyan, containing said half, Fifty six arpents in superficie more or less (save & except Two arpents of said half retroceded to the Seignior of the said Seigniory of Noyan) I also give devise and bequeath to my said son Rufus Horatio Creller the just south half of the dwelling House, the just south half of the Barn, the just south half of the stable, the just south half of the shed, and the just south half of the wood shed and the just south half of the Corn House and Carriage House, said buildings being erected on the said south side of the said lot number nine And I also give devise and bequeath to him my said son all the farming utensils to me belonging on the day of my decease and to take possession of the same after the death of his mother, my said wife Orpha Denton. And by these presents I approve, confirm and ratify the deed of gift, Donation I made yesterday before the undersigned Notary and his colleague Notary to my said above named son of the lot of land number Ten, in the said seventh range of concession and joining the said south half of said lot number nine, it being my will that he , my said son do with the said lot number Ten as he may see fit from the day of the deed of Gift aforesaid. Fiftly, I give devise & bequeath to Ann Sylvia Creller , spinster, one of my daughters, who is now living with me and her mother, the just North half of the said lot number nine first above mentioned, as also the just North half of the House, Barn, Shed, Woodshed and of the Corn House and Carriage House, which are built on the said south side of the said lot number nine as aforesaid. It is my will and I devise that the said Rufus Horatio Creller and the said Ann Sylvia Creller, my said son and daughter do occupy the said House together as long as it will be agreeable for them to do so and I also wish and I desire that my said son Rufus Horatio do give and provide for his said sister Ann Sylvia Creller her board and to take care of her in case of sickness and to give her all the succours she may require during the time she will stay and live with him and thus only after my decease and that of her mother. Sixly I give devise and bequeath to William Stodder Creller , another of my sons the sum of twenty shillings current money of this province, the reason, I give him but that sum is that he has already received from time to time to a large amount in property and money. Sevently, I give devise and bequeath to Dinerzede Creller another of my daughters wife of John Smith of the said seigniory of Noyan, farmer, the sum of Five pounds in money and for Ten pounds in grain and cattle , making together Fifteen pounds, the same to be paid to her or to her heirs and assigned by my said son Rufus Horatio Creller, whom I request to pay the same two years after my decease And I also request of him to pay the said sum of twenty shilling said currency to his said brother William Creller, six months after my death. Eightly, I give devise and bequeath all the horses, cattle, sheep, hogs and the household furniture to me belonging on the day of my decease and this after the enjoyment aforesaid be extinct that is after my said beloved wife's decease to all my above named Children, to be divided amongst them share and share alike the said division to be made in the presence of my executors hereinafter to be named , providing my said four children, should not agree about the said division, but I hope that they will agree between themselves without being obliged to call upon the said Executors. Ninthly, I give devise and bequeath All my clothes and wearing apparel to my two sons namely Rufus Horatio Creller and William Stoddard Creller to be divided between them, by equal share of to the survivor of them and the same to be given, to them by my Executors hereinafter named five days after my decease.
And I the said Testator do name and appoint the said Orpha Denton my beloved wife, Executor and my brother in law John Denton of Noyan, farmer and my friend John Hawley, of Foucault, farmer, Executors of this my last Will and Testament, requesting of them to accept the said charge. And I revoke all former Wills & Codicils I may have made before this date, to which alone I adhere as being my last Will and Testament. It was thus made dictated and named fait dicté et nommé by the said Testator Peter Creller to me the said Notary in the presence of the aforesaid Witnesses and read and read over lû et relû to the said Testator in the presence of the said Witnesses by the said Notary, who has persisted therein as being his last Will and Testament. Done and passed at the seigniory of Noyan in the said Testators dwelling house on the twenty fifth day of the month of April in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and forty four at half past eight o'clock in the forenoon, by me the said Notary written and the said Testator hath signed it with and in the presence of us the said Notary and witnesses after having been duly read twice as aforesaid,
One word Obliterated is null & void
Before me Pierre Gamelin a public Notary and Messrs. John Hawly and Griffin Scriver, the Notary and witnesses before named in the above and foregoing written Will and Testament of Peter Creller, Testator there in named.
And he the said Peter Creller, after having heard the reading of his said last Will and Testament he declared to the said Notary in the presence of the said witnesses that he is desirous to make some alteration in his said last Will and Testament in the form of a Codicil to the same, which he hath made dictated and named fait dicté et nommé to the said Notary who wrote it in the presence of the said witnesses in the following form and manners That instead of the Gift and Bequeath made by me to my four children as mentioned in the Eight section of my said last will and Testament It is now my will to alter the same, therefore I give devise and bequeath to Rufus Horatio Creller, on of my sons and to Ann Sylvia Creller one of my daughters, the Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, summer and winter carriage and Harnesses to me belonging on the day of my decease (and thus after the enjoyment which I give to my beloved wife Orpha Denton as mentioned in the third section of my said Last Will and Testament be extinct That is to say, after her decease) to be equally divided by half between them the said Rufus Horatio Creller and the said Ann Sylvia Creller . I also give devise and bequeath to Rufus Horatio Creller, the just half of the Household furniture and I give and devise and bequeath the other half of said Household furniture to my two daughters the said Ann Sylvia Creller and Dinerzede Creller, wife of John Smith to be divided between them And I give devise and bequeath to William Creller another of my sons, Five sheep, one feather bed and a loom complete with all the apparatus there to belonging. I make the above written bequeath in the room of the one mentioned in the eight section of my said Last Will and Testament as aforesaid and the said above Gift and bequeath to take place in the manner and time aforesaid. And It is also me will and I desire that all the other bequest and legacies by me made as mentioned in my said Last Will and Testament be complied with as they are there in written approving, confirming and ratifying them and by these presents do approve confirm and ratify the same. Thus the said Testator hath made dictated and names this hi Codicil to his last Will and Testament to be added and make pray there to and to be recorded in the office of Pierre Gamelin the undersigned Notary whom he requested so to do. Done and passed in the dwelling house of the said Peter Creller, Testator in the Seigniory of Noyan on the the twenty eight day of the month of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four at five o, clock in the afternoon, who after this his present and last Codicil to his said Will and Testament as aforesaid being unto him read twice over by the said Notary in the presence of the said witnesses, he the said Testator and witnesses declared to have well understood its contents and to be there with content and satisfied he the said Testator signed with and in the presence of us the said Notary and witnesses after having been duly read twice as aforesaid signed Peter Creller
signed John Hawley
and signed Pre Gamelin N J as it appears on the original minute remaining of record in the subscribing Notary’s office Pre Gamelin N J
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Early on in life William Stoddard Creller took possession of some land in lot 30 , in concession 9 of the Seigniory of Noyan , and then acquired the land on lot number 225 in the 9th concession of Foucault , down from Nutt's Corner. He married Sophia Nutt and they produced a small family of 5 girls and one male offspring.
After the early death of Sophia Nutt, William Stoddard Creller remarried Elizabeth Newman, producing two other male offspring.
George Creller, son of Sophia Nutt and William Stoddard, became a carpenter, was at one time post master of the Aird. P Q mail office and then he moved over the border into Alburg Springs, Vermont taking possession in 1894 of the Mansion House, a hotel type lodging serving the mineral spring travelers of the period. Most of Geroge's offspring, he had five sons , established themselves in the Alburgh , Vermont area, and can be found there today. Robert Creller his great-great-great-grandson is a respected breeder of Highland Cattle in this area.
The male line of William's second marriage, moved to western Canada, where his descendants are to be found today.
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Elizabeth Newman
1837-1914 |
| Wilford Creller
1855-1914 |
James A Creller
1857-xxxx |
Elizabeth Newman, is the sister of William and James Newman, the boys who married the daughters of William Stoddard. After the death of William Stoddard Creller , Elizabeth Newman remarried Reid Henry Miller and had more children. ( Sophia, Wiliam, Elizabeth, and Reid Henry are all buried in the Hawley Cemetery on South Beech Road)
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Mabel C Creller
1886-1922 |
Ethel L Creller
1889-xxxx |
| Wilford Stoddard Creller
1855-1914 |
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Agnes Elizabeth Cox
1860-1942 |
| Eliza Belle Creller
1884-xxxx |
Margaret Clark Creller
1886-xxxx |
Josephine Creller
1888-xxxx |
| Reid Henry Creller
1890-xxxx |
Bertha Grace Creller
1893-xxxx |
Wilford George Creller
1895-xxxx |
This is the history of the Creller family as kept by my father Wolfrod George Creller. He wrote down what he could remember and placed it in the Family Bible. Wolford Stoddard Creller was born in Clarenceville , Quebec in 1855. He came to Winnipeg in 1878 and worked on a survey outfit north of Winnipeg near Lake Winnipeg . Agnes Elizabeth Cox, was born on December 4 1860 in Chatham, Quebec, which is on the border of Quebec and Ontario. It is also reported that she was born in Pointe Fortune, Quebec so we will also keep this on record. She came to Winnipeg in 1878 or 79 and worked as a maid. She quit her job and went north where she met Wolford S Creller. That fall she wanted to leave before winter closed in. Ches and Martin Holly ( could this be Hawley) and Wolford built a hand sleigh and pulled her across to Clandebury where she could catch a train back to Winnipeg. This was the end of the railway line at the time.
The engineer on the survey gang built a log house at Clandebury and W S Creller stayed there for the winter. He used to throw scraps of food out the door and timber wolves would come up and eat them. The next spring he returned to Winnipeg. He was offered two lots where the CPR station eventually was built on the corner of Higgins and Main , for $25.00 a lot. He did not buy them because the mud was up to the top of his rubber boots and he thought the land would never be any good. Wolford Stoddard Creller and Agnes Cox were married in 1881 and he went to work on construction, building the CPR line to DeWinton. She was one of the first white women to settle in the area. When they reached there, he was made a Section Foreman and had 18 men working for him. He was making $1.25 per day and the men working for him made seventy five cents per day.
They lived in a granary at Lee's until a section house was built for them to live in. When the town was located at Carberry, Manitoba, the section house was moved to Carberry from DeWinton on a Sunday morning while they were still sleeping in bed. They lived in the Section house, 1 and ½ miles west of Carberry until 1890. They had a daughter Eliza Belle Creller born February 8 1884, a daughter Margaret Clark Creller born January 26 1886, another daughter Josephine Creller born February 29 1888 and a son Reid Henry Creller born February 5 1890. All were born in Carberry, Manitoba while they lived in the section house. They moved to Melbourne Manitoba in 1890 and took up farming. Bertha Grace Creller was born Jan 21 1893 and Wolford George Creller was born April 27 1895. The house burned down in 1902 and they had to build another one.
Wolford Stoddard Creller died Oct 2 1914, and Mrs Creller stayed on the farm until 1922 when she moved to Winnipeg to stay with her son Wolford George. She stayed there until he got married on April 9 1928, returning to Carberry to keep house for her grandchildren who were attending school in town. In about 1930 Mrs W S Creller, returned to Winnipeg where she lived until the spring of 1942 with her son Wolford and his wife Vina. They took her to Carberry to live with her daughter Belle and son in law Harry Reynolds until she passed away August 9 1942. She was buried beside her husband in the Carberry Cemetery Aug 11 1942.
When Wolford Stoddard Creller was working, Ernest Seaton Thompson used to ride with them on the railway hand car. Ernest would jump off the car if he saw a coon or a badger or ground hog and he would chase them as they were very uncommon to him. He would dig into a mole hole until he caught the mole. People used to think he was crazy but he became a famous author and is honoured today by the people of the Carberry district. He would carry mice and snakes around in his pockets. When he wrote the book ' The Trail of the Sandhill Stag ' he followed the deer for a week. He would sleep when the deer slept and get up and follow it when it moved, yet it never knew he was there. This took place across from the farm which Wolford George Creller bought near Melbourne Manitoba in 1936 and farmed for a few years while living in Winnipeg.
| Florence Belle Reynolds
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Josephine Adele Reynolds
1913-xxxx |
Wolford Nelson Reynolds
1915-xxxx |
| Delbert Arthur Reynolds
1917-xxxx |
Doris Ann Reynolds
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| Agnes Gwendoline Ross
1911-xxx |
Marjorie Ross
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Arthur John Ross
1915-xxxx |
| Glen Rhoades Waterhouse
1916-xxxx |
Catherine Lillian Waterhouse
1918-xxxx |
Agnes Waterhouse
1920-xxxx |
| Lyle Waterhouse
1925-xxxx |
Margaret Waterhouse
1928-xxxx |
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| Beryl Caroline Creller
1929-xxxx |
Reid Henry Creller
1936-xxxx |
Doris Agnes Creller
1937-xxxx |
Keith Wolford Creller
1943-xxxx |
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| Mary Newman
1860-xxxx |
Ermina Newman
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Ellen Newman
1865-xxxx |
George Albert Newman
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| Alice Newman
1870-xxxx |
James Newman
1873-1896 |
Wilford D. Newman
1874-1876 |
Ina Newman
1878-xxxx |
A James A Creller, 23 years old is listed living with the Newman family at census time 1881, he is the son of William Stoddard and Elizabeth Newman The family is living in Clarenceville , Que
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Lewis John Reed remarried Eliza Placer of Highgate VT , in Granby 10 September 1863
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On May 5, 1894 the ' Mansion House ' was sold to George Creller for $1,600.00
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Alburg Springs M.E. Church , Ladies Aid Society 1906 Mrs G A Creller Mrs Thomas Creller Mrs W A Creller Alyce Creller
July 11 1939 Mr William A Creller - Selectman
Alburgh Center Cemetery
This cemetery is located on the town road leading east to the lake from Alburgh Center. It is off and on the north side of this town road burials as early as 1787
William A Creller his wife Jane O'Neil
Hardy L Creller
William H Creller
Karl W Creller Died in Action at Chateau Thierry France 23 July 1918
Floyd A Creller his wife Donna M Duba
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#2 Glendon Creller
#6 Doris Creller (died before 2004)
#3 Dorthy Creller
Ben Creller is standing along with his daughter Doris. The girl to the left is Hazel Braley ( now Mrs Lee Patno of Alburgh) the boy with the wagon is her brother George Braley. The truck 9 called by Hazel ' tobacco & cigarette truck' was driven by Frank Settle, brother in law to Clement Hillliker circa 1915
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Vanessa Creller
1956- 1998
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| Lori Creller
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Cheyl Lynn Creller
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Bruce Olin Creller jr
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On 9 July 1938 Alburgh voters met to vote on a proposal for the town to build a new HighSchool., on May 26 1939 a dance was held in the new auditorium Among the listed Patrons and Patronesses was -Miss Mildred Creller
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RALPH A. MACHIA
ST. ALBANS / MILTON - Ralph A. Machia, 83, formerly of Milton, passed away Monday morning, Feb. 19, 2007, at the Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans.
Ralph was born May 4, 1923, in Franklin, the son of the late Wilford and Anna Ladd Machia. On June 10, 1944, he married Edna Creller in Alburgh, Vt.; they were married for over 54 years when she passed on July 24, 1998.
Moving to Connecticut in 1953, he had worked for Hollaway Brothers Farm until 1975, from then he worked at the Avon Old Farms School in Avon, Conn. for 15 years. He moved back to Vermont in 1987, residing in Swanton where he enjoyed growing his vegetable garden, which was the talk of the town. He lived in Swanton until 1998 when Edna died, then moving to Milton to be closer to his daughter Deborah.
He is survived by his children, Lloyd Machia of St. Albans, Robert Machia of Riverton, Conn., Richard Machia and his wife, Pia of Bristol, Conn., Deborah Corey and her companion, Kenny Mayo of Milton and Donna Trainor and her husband, David of Tarriffville, Conn.; his precious grandchildren, Jeff and Mel Stanhope, Todd Machia, Eric Corey, Dennis and Jen Corey, Troy Machia, Megan and Joshua Platnik, Nicole Machia, Danielle Machia, Jason Trainor and Brittany Machia, and five great-grandchildren; his brother, Elwin Machia and his wife Florence, and his sister, Eleanor Machia; his brother-in-law, Warren Baker; sisters-in-law, Beverly Creller, Juanita Stone and Genny Secor. He was predeceased by his beloved wife, Edna; and his infant son, Dennis.
Funeral Services will be held on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2007, at 7 p.m. in the Minor Funeral Home with Pastor Kim Ransom officiating. Burial will be held in the Alburgh Cemetery later in the spring.
Memorial Contributions may be made to the Lycam Fund in care of the Franklin County Rehab Center, 110 Fairfax Road, St. Albans, Vt. 05478; or the Support Our Troops Fund in care of Key Bank, Milton, Vt. 05468.
Visiting Hours will be held on Thursday prior to the service from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Minor Funeral Home, Route 7 in Milton.
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Lloyd Russell Creller
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Benard Robert Creller
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Mildred Creller
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Lloyd Russell was killed in action in Korean War
The Binghamton Sun - Wednesday , Sept 27, 1950
Five More Names Hike Casualty Total to 50
...............Pvt Lloyd R Creller, 19 son of Mrs Gertrude Creller, Farmingdale, Li, formerly of 60 Washington Ave. A rifleman with the Second Infantry Division, he was reprted missing Sept 1. ........ Pvt Creller has a brother Duane 18, also in the Army, a brother Robert, living in Endicott; a sister Mrs George Camp, also of Endicott.
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John Newman
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William Newman
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Hattie Newman
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The Newman family was residing in Clarenceville Quebec
Rufus Horatio Creller , the second son of Peter and Orpha , married Emily Bush in the parish of St. Georges de Clarenceville in Mar 23rd 1846, died in 1858 and is interred in the Union cemetery Clarenceville along with his wife, a son Marshall Gilbert, his daughter Josephine and son in-law George Hawley Macfie.
Rufus was a farmer, owner of large tract of land (100 acres) on Beech Road North. This land bordered his father's possession in the same concession of the Seiginory of Noyan and upon the death of his father Rufus came to own that lot which was his father's providing him with some 200 acres of land on Beech Road North. This farm land became known as it is today, as the Macfie homestead. Rufus also had acquired in the Seiginory of Foucault, lot 226 in concession 8 and probably concession 9 ( originally owned by Johnathan Irish) , this land bordered with his brother's lot 225 concession 9. This land being located on Beech Road South . The land also bordered with that of Robert Macfie who owned a large tract of land in concession 10 , running on down to Baie Missisquoi.
While the original house that Peter Creller had built for his family was torn down in about 1999 and the lands that had made up the Macfie homestead split up and sold off , the original home that Rufus constructed in about 1850 is now being renovated, and brought back as close to it's original state by a historical renovator, one Robert Pelletier and his wife Caroline Kehne.
Rufus and Emily, produced a family of five, three boys and two girls. Alice Lovica their first daughter died when she was five and is buried in the South Beech Cemetery , an iron plaque marker can be found there .The boys all went off to seek their fortunes in the United States of America.
Marshall Gilbert the youngest son, however had his life cut short by an avalanche and died in Colorado in 1891, he was a just, and an educated gentleman, well liked and respected. He had even been elected to the office of Constable in the county of Gunnison, in the State of Colorado in 1888.
Franklin Truman Creller moved to Joplin, Mich. where he became a wealthy industrialist, dealing in land development, and mining, one of his sons Charles S. Creller became an attorney at law in Kansas City.
Eugene Cullen Creller , for whom Robin Macfie was named, went off to Grass Valley California, during the early days of the gold rush. In 1869 He joined with two brothers Edward and John C Coleman ( who had spent some time in the Missisquoi area (1847-1851 ) ), as general manager in the Idaho Mining Company and rose to become treasurer. The Idaho Mining Company operation took $10 million US in gold bunion out of the ground from 1868 to 1889 .
The youngest daughter Orpha Josephine Creller went on to marry George Hawley Macfie , they inherited the Creller farm lands and lived there well into the 1930's. After the death of George Hawley Macfie, Josephine remained in the home accompanied by with Alice Chew a homeland girl from England who had been taken in by the Creller family. Josephine then retrograded the homestead to a place of summer residence while she passed her time traveling and visiting relatives, having taken up temporary residence in a flat ( an apartment) on Hope Ave in Montreal, across the street from her son Robin and his family.
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Letter found glued in to old scrap book kept by Wessy Macfie of Montana USA
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Deborah McKee Williams
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Patricia Orr Williams
1938-1999 |
Margaret Victoria Williams
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1938-1999 |
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(Extracts of newspaper articles found glued in to old scrap book kept by Wessy Macfie of Montana USA)
These lands are all situated convenient to electric and steam railways, thus affording every advantage for economical operation. Each on of these tracts has been prospected sufficiently to prove that they are richly mineralized with both zinc and lead ores and are now being surveyed into ten acres blocks to be leased to operators at a reduced rate of royalty
Property on Creller Land Producing Ore That Gives a Premium of $8..45 on Second Car Made
Operations at the mine are being carried on at a depth of only about forty five feet, but at this level a deposit has been encountered that is almost all silicate. It is reported that in getting out two car loads of ore, only a few wheelbarrows of waste have accumulated. Equipment of the property is not pretentious, including only a horse holster and two hand jigs, but it is believed Gist can make near a carload a week.
The quality of the ore is the principal attraction of the property. The first car load sold showed an assay of 47 percent zinc, and the second 48,45 per cent. As the ore sells on a basis of 40 percent metallic zinc, the sales brought $7. and $8.45 premium respectively.
The mine is located near the center of the forty acres, which is a part of the 320 acres of the Creller land that adjoins the city limits of Joplin on the southwest.
That a property of such worth can be developed right at the doors of Joplin and with such comparative small expenditure is considered as proving once more the oft repeated assertion that " the surface has only to be scratched" here.
( again no date accompany the clipping)
The Excelsior Zinc and Lead company has the 10½ lots adjoining the Pears & Co mine on the south, where the latter company has driven a face of ore onto then which is 60 feet wide, from which they were making from one to two tons an hour. The Excelsior company has to shafts underway which are nearly down to the ore zone, both of which show some ore. As soon as the ore body is reached and drifts cut into it this company will erect a first class mill.
Dr A P Campbell has purchased a block of 12 lots formerly owned by the Webb City Iron works, just east of the Excelsior. This property has several shafts and drifts into the ore zone, and Dr Campbell is now erecting a first class up to date mill on this block, which he expects to have completed and in operation by the first of December.
Dr Campbell also purchased 12 lots adjoining the Rice mine on the east. Ore has been traced onto these lots from the south and the Rice Mining company has driven a rich ore body nearly to this block from the west. Arrangements have been made to erect another first class mill on this block since its mineral richness has been proven.
Joplin, Mo Jan 20, 1915
To the Minify Editor of the News Herald
However, this unsatisfactory manipulation of prices of zinc are events of the past, as they cannot be successfully practiced under a foreign demand. With the declaring of war in europe it was plain to be seen by those informed as to where the zinc ores are produced and that the metal consumed, what the effects on the markets would be. Germany, Belgium and Austria produce about one half of the zinc metal of the world. Their mines and smelters are located in the zone where the battles have been fought, and will continue to be for some time, which must damage all of them and some of them will be necessarily entirely destroyed.
England has 87 per cent of the trade of the world in galvanized sheet iron, wire and sheet zinc. She produced about 65,000 long tons of metal from Australian ores and bought about 200,000 long tons of metal a year from Germany and Belgium. Her trade on these goods is all over South and Central America, asia and Africa, Australia, Canada and in fact, most everywhere except in the United States, and it is expected that she will strive to hold this trade. To do so she must obtain the quantities of metal that she formerly bought in Germany and Belgium, in this country. To realize what effect this extraordinary demand will have on our market, it must be remembered that when business is normal in this country we have never produced sufficient zinc to supply the home consumption, having imported both ore and metal in 1912, when we made our largest production and received the highest price ever paid in this country up to that time. The reported exportations of metal from this country prior to last September were from ore smelted in bond, except a little produced from willemite ore of New Jersey. It should not be forgotten that the increased consumption of zinc metal doubles every twelve years.
With these conditions before us, it is not difficult to understand why spelter in London has steadily advanced and in all probability will continue to do so for some time. The spelter production of this country has increased from 203,849 short tons in 1905 to 360,000 in 1914. The steady advance in the price of zinc metal and ore is the result of legitimate foreign demand, caused by the sudden curtailment of about 50 per cent of the world's production.
Under these conditions it is quite probable that spelter will reach the price of ten cents a pound and our high grade ore $80 a ton before the close of this year, and the encouraging feature of it is that the price is up to stay for many years. The higher prices will not lessen the consumption, as there is nothing that can be substituted for it that would be satisfactory ; in fact, zinc metal has never brought the prices that its importance entitled it to, as it is as useful a metal as copper and should command nearer the same price than it has.
Frank T Creller
F T CRELLER, PIONEER JOPLIN RESIDENT , DIES
July 8, 1929
During that time, he purchased a number of large tracts of land, mostly for development into mining properties and with the late G B Young, another real estate agent, he started in the old Excelsior field, near Four Corners. For a umber of years he was associated in the land firm of Creller & Young and Creller. He maintained a real estate agency in the Miners Bank Building.
Mr. Creller was born February 9 1847 in Clarenceville Quebec Canada. where he spent his early manhood. He taught school in Canada for a number of years and at one time was a salesman for several large manufacturing concerns in the northern states. He had been married sixty years. Before coming to Joplin he operated a lime quarry at Lowell, Kan for two years.
Surviving are his widow Mrs. Emma Creller : two daughters, Mr. J F Harbour of Oklahoma City Okla., and Miss Alice Creller at home; a son Charles S Creller, a Kansas City attorney, a sister Mrs. George Macfie of Clarenceville and a grandson Addison Williams of Oklahoma City.
Funeral plans have not been completed but rites probably will be held Wednesday.
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Extract from book " History of Northern California , page 467
The directors of the company are as follows : Edward Coleman, President and Superintendent, John C Coleman Treasurer, E C Creller, Vice President, George W Hill, Secretary and M P O'Connor. J C and Edward Coleman were born in Suffolk County England, the one in 1823 and the other in 1830. In 1847 they went to Canada, where hey remained until 1851, when they went to New York City. In 1853 they came to California and mined in various parts until 1860 when they came to Grass Valley, becoming interested in the Idaho a few years later. E C Creller was born in 1848 at Clarenceville, Missisquoi County Quebec. He came out to Grass Valley in 1869 and has been connected with the Idaho mine ever since.
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1846- 1882 |
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Everett L . Smith
1864- 1943 |
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1846-1882 |
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Nathan Rowlee Hathaway
1844-1932 |
| John Edwin Hathaway
1870-1948 |
Minni Adelle Hathaway
1877-1951 |
| John Edwin Hathaway
1870-1948 |
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October 4 1894 Sioux City Iowa |
Lulu Stella Woodworth
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1895-1966 |
Ruth Hathaway
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1895-1966 |
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June 1 1917 Sioux City, Iowa |
Lois Stoddard
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1918-1988 |
William Stoddard Hathaway
1925-1998 |
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1895-1966 |
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October 8 1948 Sioux City Iowa |
Mildred Evelyn Wanders
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Notes on the Smith family were found in extracts of newspaper articles found glued in to an old scrap book kept by Wessy Macfie of Montana USA (not many if at all any were dated)
Died of His Injuries - Edson P Smith Passed away at Sioux Sxity June 22 - Funeral in Genoa Sunday
Survived just a week after accident in Iowa City - Blood clot on brain - Conscious to the last
The following obituary and account of the accident was read by Rev Farmiole at the church.
Edson P Smith , third son of the late John G and Orpha D Smith was born in Sycamore township March 12 1856 and lived with his parents on the farm until he was 19 years old. The family then moved to the city of Sycamore and he attended the public schools there. Later he became a student in Janesville Wis, where he graduated. Soon after his graduation he engaged in mercantile pursuits in Stockton Kas. He moved to Chicago in 1892 where he remained for 13 years. On February 1 1894 he was married to Miss Emma Louis Peter, of Chicago. Of this union there is one child John Gordon Smith. Mr Smith and family came to Genoa on February 15 1905, and remained here nearly six years. He moved from Geona to Sioux City, Iowa , on the 19th of May 1910, remaining there until March 1911, then the family moved to Kansas City Mo, where they lived at the time of his death. He was president of the Cyclone Churn Co. of Kansas City , Mo. Called to Sioux City on business on the 14th of June 1911, he met on the street his nephew Harold Hathaway, who was driving a horse and buggy, and he expressed a desire to visit Harold's mother before attending to the business that had brought him to the city. While driving up West Third street they were overtaken by the fire department. The sound of the gong frightened the horse and caused it to run away. Mr Smith rose in the buggy to assist Harold in the attempt to control the horse, and while crossing the track of the City Car Co. was thrown bodily from the conveyance and very seriously injured. He was taken to the St Vincent hospital where everything that could be done was done to minister to his comfort. At first there seemed to be good hope that he would recover but a clot of blood had formed, preventing the normal action of the heart and when hope was at its highest he suddenly collapsed. He was conscious up to the last and was kindly administered to by the sisters in the hospital, and when death was evidently approaching he called for a picture of the Savious of Men, owned by his beloved wife and pressing his lips to it again and again , declared his trust in the world's Redeemer. At this moment the sisters in attendance held the cross before his fading vision and he pressed his lips to it and died voicing the gratitude to those who had ministered so kindly to him and his undying love to his dear wife who had been in constant attendance upon him night and day during the week. The accident occurred on the morning of June 15th and he died on the 22nd of June at 3:00 p.m. He was a devoted husband, a kind, affection father, a loving brother, an honored citizen and a noble man. I never heard a more tender, kindly tribute from human lips than was paid to him by his devoted and bereaved companion. Peace to his memory.
The mourners who are with us today, beside his loving wife and son, are Mr and Mrs B F Green, Mr and Mrs H J Collins and daughter Gertrude, Mr and Mrs L Goodspeed, of Rockland, Wm H Smith and his wife of Genoa, Mr and Mrs A E Proctor of New Orleans LA, Mr and Mrs Charley Green of Chicago, E.L. Smith, wife and daughter Ester of Charter Grove, Mr and Mrs J E Hathaway their son Harold, and daughter Ruth of Sioux City Iowa, L B Smith, wife and son Harry of Elgin , Mrs Scudder of Chicago, and Mrs J A Patterson of Genoa, sisters of Mrs Smith ; Misses Laura and Lilyan Catellier and Mrs Garneau of Chicago.
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Also tracing these Creller family lines are :
Janet Caswell - Researching Lottie Creller born Feb 26 1900 Bedford Qc and believed to have been brought up by her maternal grandmother Rebina Rouse Caswell Satwell . Janet can be reached at jcaswell@netover.com
R. Soler -Researching Almira Creller who married Gilbert Sawyer. Mr Soler can be reached at exegis1@yahoo.com
Joyce Jorgenson - Researching Almira Creller who married Gilbert Sawyer , Joyce may be reached at JoyceJorgensen@msn.com
Karl Ashline Researching George E Creller Alburg Vt and his family descendants, Karl may be reached at Oldtools1@aol.com
Bonnie Wilson Researching Kenneth Creller originally of the Easterntownships , Bonnie can be reached at bryant.bonnie@sympatico.ca
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