John Yancy Creswell Record

(from aunt minerva's genealogy...transcribed by my mom)

John Yancy Creswell Record
John Yancy Creswell (son of Henry Creswell and Susy (Susanna) Whitt Creswell was married to Cynthia Whitt Oct 18 1837 Sunday morning.

Children born to John Yancy Creswell and Cynthia Whitt Creswell
Emmas mother
Minerva Creswell born Tuesday July 31 1838
Leosby Creswell born Tuesday Dec 24 1839
Harriet Creswell born Tuesday OCt 6 1841 died when a small child in Virginia 12-15-1842
Ballard Preston Creswell born Tuesday July 25 10842 Uncle Preston was missing in the Civil War in the march to Georgia (his friend said the last they saw of him was sitting on a log in Texas)
Lenza (Louisy) Creswell born Tuesday Oct 21 1845 died while they lived in Iowa with Typhoid. was burried in cementry 5 or 6 miles NORTHWEST of Patterson, Madison Co,IA.
Suffrona Criswell born Wed Dec 29 1847
Erasta's Worth Creswell born Monday November 26 1849
Emily Creswell born Dec 31 1852
Patrik Henry Criswell born April 2 1855
Griffie Scoges Creswell May 23 1857
All the children of John Yancy Criswell (son of Henry-Susan Whitt Creswell) and Cynthia Whitt Creswell.

James Yancy Creswell was burried close Sherman, Texas under a Pecan Tree by the side of the road. He was sick, they thought it would help him to travel he got worse and died, Grandma went, got there after he was burried.
Grandfather Criswell was named for a Uncle that lived in Texas.


wow---10 kids. one died as a small child, one from typhoid, one never seen again after he left for the Civil War. I love the names...Griffie, Suffrona, Erasta's, Leosby, Lenza, Ballard....I didn't know anything about these people until I started typing, now I am fascinated...