Ann Eliza Wier Creekmore, wife of Hiram Caswell Creekmore. Married in 1854.
Daughter of James Wier Jr. (1802-1885) and first wife Elizabeth Evans Wier.
"Wife of H. C. Creekmore"; on double marker with H. C. Creekmore (1829-1902).
Original memorial reference said Annie Elisa Creekmore.
Mother of:
Dovie Alice Creekmore born 31 OCT 1855, Yalobusha Co., MS.
Amarilla (Ammie) Gertrude Creekmore b. Oct. 1857 Yalobusha Co., Miss.
Sarah Elizabeth Creekmore Wallace, author of The Wier-Creekmore Genealogy (1944).
Nancy Ophelia Creekmore, born 20 SEP 1868, Hallettsville, Lavaca Co., TX
Maud Hiram Creekmore, born 8 SEP 1872, Hallettsville, TX
Louis Hiram Creekmore, born 13 AUG 1881, TX
She was a second cousin of John Scott Ferguson (1842-1914), owner of Belmont Plantation, Leesburg, Virginia, the former Ludwell Lee home, and also second cousin of Winfield Scott Nesbit, the father of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw.
The Wier-Creekmore Genealogy (1942) by Sarah Elizabeth Creekmore Wallace:
Page 35: “Due to the conditions in the state of Mississippi resulting from the Civil War, my father decided to move to Texas. There were no banks available and before the time of green-back money. My father carried a bag of gold around his waist, my mother wore an underskirt padded with twenty dollar gold pieces.”
Page 36: “The family boarded a Miss. River steamer and went to New Orleans. While in this City they were guests of the famous old St. Charles Hotel. By boat they crossed over to Indianola, Texas, and moved inland about forty miles to Lavaca County. Here my father leased a large plantation and planted it in corn and cotton. The crop was totally destroyed by a hail storm. The second crop was planted and, strange as it seems, destroyed in the same way. At that time Lavaca County was heavily timbered. Thousands of long-horned cattle roamed the woods and were worth at most nothing. My father invested the balance of his money in oxen, yoked them together and started back to the old home State. They headed south to cross the Mississippi River at New Orleans. A yellow fever epidemic was raging in the City. My father was taken seriously ill, however, not with yellow fever. He never knew what became of his cattle. Six months later a man drove up before our home. On a bed in the back of his wagon was my father. After recovering he moved our family into Hallettsville, the county seat. Everything was lost but faith and courage.
Under a live oak tree he set up a blacksmith shop. To this out-door beginning he later built several business houses, a saddlery shop and a large woodwork establishment where plows, wagons, buggies, hacks and coffins were made. Nearly everything was home-made.
In a small account book of my father’s for blacksmith work done in 1868 such names appear as General Baylor, Colonel Moss, General Dowling and numbers of other Confederate Army officers, who after the din of the battle field was over, had settled down to the peaceful pursuit of farming.
Page 37: “In 1869 my father was again building. This time a hotel and planted the yard in evergreens and shade trees.
My sister, Mrs. D.A. Brewster, visited this old home in 1913. The house was in good condition and the yard beautiful with shrubbery.
Salado, in Bell County, had one of the foremost colleges in the State. My oldest sister was there in school. We moved to this town in 1873 and bought an interesting old home. A Dr. Jones had improved the place. On a corner was a rock office where he kept his medicines and received his patients. My sister Alice married a lawyer, Frank M. Ray. He turned the doctor’s office into a court room.
After living here several years, our neighbor, Judge O.T. Tyler, made my father a good offer to settle on a section of unimproved land in Erath County. We moved in 1881. After several years of hard work and careful management this wilderness was changed into a good home. There is one thing I especially desire to mention in the improvement of this farm. South of the peach orchard, bordering on the creek, were several acres of low, level land. When my father and mother were old and the neighbors around thought their work in life about done, they planted this land in pecan and walnut trees. There is nothing like it in all the country. It is a living memorial to them.
My father was a Royal Arch Mason, having joined the Masonic fraternity before the Civil War.
Both father and mother were devout Christians, members of the Greens Creek Baptist Church. They are buried…
page 38: “ in the Greens Creek cemetery with a tall marble monument, beautifully inscribed to their memory.”
Daughter of James Wier Jr. (1802-1885) and first wife Elizabeth Evans Wier.
"Wife of H. C. Creekmore"; on double marker with H. C. Creekmore (1829-1902).
Original memorial reference said Annie Elisa Creekmore.
Mother of:
Dovie Alice Creekmore born 31 OCT 1855, Yalobusha Co., MS.
Amarilla (Ammie) Gertrude Creekmore b. Oct. 1857 Yalobusha Co., Miss.
Sarah Elizabeth Creekmore Wallace, author of The Wier-Creekmore Genealogy (1944).
Nancy Ophelia Creekmore, born 20 SEP 1868, Hallettsville, Lavaca Co., TX
Maud Hiram Creekmore, born 8 SEP 1872, Hallettsville, TX
Louis Hiram Creekmore, born 13 AUG 1881, TX
She was a second cousin of John Scott Ferguson (1842-1914), owner of Belmont Plantation, Leesburg, Virginia, the former Ludwell Lee home, and also second cousin of Winfield Scott Nesbit, the father of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw.
The Wier-Creekmore Genealogy (1942) by Sarah Elizabeth Creekmore Wallace:
Page 35: “Due to the conditions in the state of Mississippi resulting from the Civil War, my father decided to move to Texas. There were no banks available and before the time of green-back money. My father carried a bag of gold around his waist, my mother wore an underskirt padded with twenty dollar gold pieces.”
Page 36: “The family boarded a Miss. River steamer and went to New Orleans. While in this City they were guests of the famous old St. Charles Hotel. By boat they crossed over to Indianola, Texas, and moved inland about forty miles to Lavaca County. Here my father leased a large plantation and planted it in corn and cotton. The crop was totally destroyed by a hail storm. The second crop was planted and, strange as it seems, destroyed in the same way. At that time Lavaca County was heavily timbered. Thousands of long-horned cattle roamed the woods and were worth at most nothing. My father invested the balance of his money in oxen, yoked them together and started back to the old home State. They headed south to cross the Mississippi River at New Orleans. A yellow fever epidemic was raging in the City. My father was taken seriously ill, however, not with yellow fever. He never knew what became of his cattle. Six months later a man drove up before our home. On a bed in the back of his wagon was my father. After recovering he moved our family into Hallettsville, the county seat. Everything was lost but faith and courage.
Under a live oak tree he set up a blacksmith shop. To this out-door beginning he later built several business houses, a saddlery shop and a large woodwork establishment where plows, wagons, buggies, hacks and coffins were made. Nearly everything was home-made.
In a small account book of my father’s for blacksmith work done in 1868 such names appear as General Baylor, Colonel Moss, General Dowling and numbers of other Confederate Army officers, who after the din of the battle field was over, had settled down to the peaceful pursuit of farming.
Page 37: “In 1869 my father was again building. This time a hotel and planted the yard in evergreens and shade trees.
My sister, Mrs. D.A. Brewster, visited this old home in 1913. The house was in good condition and the yard beautiful with shrubbery.
Salado, in Bell County, had one of the foremost colleges in the State. My oldest sister was there in school. We moved to this town in 1873 and bought an interesting old home. A Dr. Jones had improved the place. On a corner was a rock office where he kept his medicines and received his patients. My sister Alice married a lawyer, Frank M. Ray. He turned the doctor’s office into a court room.
After living here several years, our neighbor, Judge O.T. Tyler, made my father a good offer to settle on a section of unimproved land in Erath County. We moved in 1881. After several years of hard work and careful management this wilderness was changed into a good home. There is one thing I especially desire to mention in the improvement of this farm. South of the peach orchard, bordering on the creek, were several acres of low, level land. When my father and mother were old and the neighbors around thought their work in life about done, they planted this land in pecan and walnut trees. There is nothing like it in all the country. It is a living memorial to them.
My father was a Royal Arch Mason, having joined the Masonic fraternity before the Civil War.
Both father and mother were devout Christians, members of the Greens Creek Baptist Church. They are buried…
page 38: “ in the Greens Creek cemetery with a tall marble monument, beautifully inscribed to their memory.”
Ann Eliza Wier Creekmore, wife of Hiram Caswell Creekmore. Married in 1854.
Daughter of James Wier Jr. (1802-1885) and first wife Elizabeth Evans Wier.
"Wife of H. C. Creekmore"; on double marker with H. C. Creekmore (1829-1902).
Original memorial reference said Annie Elisa Creekmore.
Mother of:
Dovie Alice Creekmore born 31 OCT 1855, Yalobusha Co., MS.
Amarilla (Ammie) Gertrude Creekmore b. Oct. 1857 Yalobusha Co., Miss.
Sarah Elizabeth Creekmore Wallace, author of The Wier-Creekmore Genealogy (1944).
Nancy Ophelia Creekmore, born 20 SEP 1868, Hallettsville, Lavaca Co., TX
Maud Hiram Creekmore, born 8 SEP 1872, Hallettsville, TX
Louis Hiram Creekmore, born 13 AUG 1881, TX
She was a second cousin of John Scott Ferguson (1842-1914), owner of Belmont Plantation, Leesburg, Virginia, the former Ludwell Lee home, and also second cousin of Winfield Scott Nesbit, the father of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw.
The Wier-Creekmore Genealogy (1942) by Sarah Elizabeth Creekmore Wallace:
Page 35: “Due to the conditions in the state of Mississippi resulting from the Civil War, my father decided to move to Texas. There were no banks available and before the time of green-back money. My father carried a bag of gold around his waist, my mother wore an underskirt padded with twenty dollar gold pieces.”
Page 36: “The family boarded a Miss. River steamer and went to New Orleans. While in this City they were guests of the famous old St. Charles Hotel. By boat they crossed over to Indianola, Texas, and moved inland about forty miles to Lavaca County. Here my father leased a large plantation and planted it in corn and cotton. The crop was totally destroyed by a hail storm. The second crop was planted and, strange as it seems, destroyed in the same way. At that time Lavaca County was heavily timbered. Thousands of long-horned cattle roamed the woods and were worth at most nothing. My father invested the balance of his money in oxen, yoked them together and started back to the old home State. They headed south to cross the Mississippi River at New Orleans. A yellow fever epidemic was raging in the City. My father was taken seriously ill, however, not with yellow fever. He never knew what became of his cattle. Six months later a man drove up before our home. On a bed in the back of his wagon was my father. After recovering he moved our family into Hallettsville, the county seat. Everything was lost but faith and courage.
Under a live oak tree he set up a blacksmith shop. To this out-door beginning he later built several business houses, a saddlery shop and a large woodwork establishment where plows, wagons, buggies, hacks and coffins were made. Nearly everything was home-made.
In a small account book of my father’s for blacksmith work done in 1868 such names appear as General Baylor, Colonel Moss, General Dowling and numbers of other Confederate Army officers, who after the din of the battle field was over, had settled down to the peaceful pursuit of farming.
Page 37: “In 1869 my father was again building. This time a hotel and planted the yard in evergreens and shade trees.
My sister, Mrs. D.A. Brewster, visited this old home in 1913. The house was in good condition and the yard beautiful with shrubbery.
Salado, in Bell County, had one of the foremost colleges in the State. My oldest sister was there in school. We moved to this town in 1873 and bought an interesting old home. A Dr. Jones had improved the place. On a corner was a rock office where he kept his medicines and received his patients. My sister Alice married a lawyer, Frank M. Ray. He turned the doctor’s office into a court room.
After living here several years, our neighbor, Judge O.T. Tyler, made my father a good offer to settle on a section of unimproved land in Erath County. We moved in 1881. After several years of hard work and careful management this wilderness was changed into a good home. There is one thing I especially desire to mention in the improvement of this farm. South of the peach orchard, bordering on the creek, were several acres of low, level land. When my father and mother were old and the neighbors around thought their work in life about done, they planted this land in pecan and walnut trees. There is nothing like it in all the country. It is a living memorial to them.
My father was a Royal Arch Mason, having joined the Masonic fraternity before the Civil War.
Both father and mother were devout Christians, members of the Greens Creek Baptist Church. They are buried…
page 38: “ in the Greens Creek cemetery with a tall marble monument, beautifully inscribed to their memory.”
Daughter of James Wier Jr. (1802-1885) and first wife Elizabeth Evans Wier.
"Wife of H. C. Creekmore"; on double marker with H. C. Creekmore (1829-1902).
Original memorial reference said Annie Elisa Creekmore.
Mother of:
Dovie Alice Creekmore born 31 OCT 1855, Yalobusha Co., MS.
Amarilla (Ammie) Gertrude Creekmore b. Oct. 1857 Yalobusha Co., Miss.
Sarah Elizabeth Creekmore Wallace, author of The Wier-Creekmore Genealogy (1944).
Nancy Ophelia Creekmore, born 20 SEP 1868, Hallettsville, Lavaca Co., TX
Maud Hiram Creekmore, born 8 SEP 1872, Hallettsville, TX
Louis Hiram Creekmore, born 13 AUG 1881, TX
She was a second cousin of John Scott Ferguson (1842-1914), owner of Belmont Plantation, Leesburg, Virginia, the former Ludwell Lee home, and also second cousin of Winfield Scott Nesbit, the father of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw.
The Wier-Creekmore Genealogy (1942) by Sarah Elizabeth Creekmore Wallace:
Page 35: “Due to the conditions in the state of Mississippi resulting from the Civil War, my father decided to move to Texas. There were no banks available and before the time of green-back money. My father carried a bag of gold around his waist, my mother wore an underskirt padded with twenty dollar gold pieces.”
Page 36: “The family boarded a Miss. River steamer and went to New Orleans. While in this City they were guests of the famous old St. Charles Hotel. By boat they crossed over to Indianola, Texas, and moved inland about forty miles to Lavaca County. Here my father leased a large plantation and planted it in corn and cotton. The crop was totally destroyed by a hail storm. The second crop was planted and, strange as it seems, destroyed in the same way. At that time Lavaca County was heavily timbered. Thousands of long-horned cattle roamed the woods and were worth at most nothing. My father invested the balance of his money in oxen, yoked them together and started back to the old home State. They headed south to cross the Mississippi River at New Orleans. A yellow fever epidemic was raging in the City. My father was taken seriously ill, however, not with yellow fever. He never knew what became of his cattle. Six months later a man drove up before our home. On a bed in the back of his wagon was my father. After recovering he moved our family into Hallettsville, the county seat. Everything was lost but faith and courage.
Under a live oak tree he set up a blacksmith shop. To this out-door beginning he later built several business houses, a saddlery shop and a large woodwork establishment where plows, wagons, buggies, hacks and coffins were made. Nearly everything was home-made.
In a small account book of my father’s for blacksmith work done in 1868 such names appear as General Baylor, Colonel Moss, General Dowling and numbers of other Confederate Army officers, who after the din of the battle field was over, had settled down to the peaceful pursuit of farming.
Page 37: “In 1869 my father was again building. This time a hotel and planted the yard in evergreens and shade trees.
My sister, Mrs. D.A. Brewster, visited this old home in 1913. The house was in good condition and the yard beautiful with shrubbery.
Salado, in Bell County, had one of the foremost colleges in the State. My oldest sister was there in school. We moved to this town in 1873 and bought an interesting old home. A Dr. Jones had improved the place. On a corner was a rock office where he kept his medicines and received his patients. My sister Alice married a lawyer, Frank M. Ray. He turned the doctor’s office into a court room.
After living here several years, our neighbor, Judge O.T. Tyler, made my father a good offer to settle on a section of unimproved land in Erath County. We moved in 1881. After several years of hard work and careful management this wilderness was changed into a good home. There is one thing I especially desire to mention in the improvement of this farm. South of the peach orchard, bordering on the creek, were several acres of low, level land. When my father and mother were old and the neighbors around thought their work in life about done, they planted this land in pecan and walnut trees. There is nothing like it in all the country. It is a living memorial to them.
My father was a Royal Arch Mason, having joined the Masonic fraternity before the Civil War.
Both father and mother were devout Christians, members of the Greens Creek Baptist Church. They are buried…
page 38: “ in the Greens Creek cemetery with a tall marble monument, beautifully inscribed to their memory.”
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