BETSEY CREIGHTON, daughter of REV. JAMES and ELIZABETH (OWEN) CREWS, was born in Massillon Township, September 23, 1829, and married to Daniel J. Creighton March 4, 1849, Squire William Crews officiating.
James, the son of Andrew, was born, April 23, 1798, in Cocke County, Tenn.; removed with his parents to Kentucky, and finally settled in what is now Massillon Township, Wayne Co., Ill., in 1818. His children were
Elizabeth (Martin) Owen, was born April 27, 1809, in Halifax County, Va., and her maternal uncle, Joseph Martin, built the first mill in Wayne County. Daniel was born in White county, Ill, April 11, 1820, and settled on the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of Section 26, Jasper Township, in 1856. He was the son of Thomas and Mary (Jajers) Creighton, son of John, who was born in Ireland.
Mary was of Irish descent. Her brothers were James, Daniel and others.
Daniel was a man of good English education, of more than ordinary intelligence; firm in his convictions of right; faithful in all the relations of life; a steadfast friend, an affectionate husband and father; his place is hard to fill in the community. In religion, he was a stanch Methodist, serving as Class Leader for nearly thirty years. His death, which occurred, April 16, 1872, was regretted as an irreparable loss to his neighborhood.
To Daniel and our subject were born
Subject has successfully carried on the farm since the death of her husband, having eighty acres of valuable land in a good state of cultivation, on which, by industry, she has been able to secrue a competency for herself and children, giving them every advantage of education within her reach.
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