Born in what was then called Elizabethtown, he was the son of David Henry & Nancy (Metz) Creager. He married Pennsylvania-born Hannah Brooks and fathered David R. (b. 03/27/56), Margaret (b. @1858), Elizabeth Prudence (b. 04/17/58 or 60 - married Franklin Addlesparger), Thomas Brooks (b. 05/29/60 or 62), Anna A. (b. @1862, d. 1876), John (b. 06/02/66), Lydia Catherine "Kate" (b. 05/20/68 or 69 - married John B. Crout), and William H. (b. @1872, d. 1888). In 1860, he was a farm laborer living with his family in Quincy Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted at the stated age of thirty-two in Franklin County October 16, 1862, mustered into federal service at Chambersburg November 4 as a private with Co. G, 158th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company August 12, 1863.
In 1870, he was a distiller living with his family in Washington Township, Franklin County. On February 9, 1892, he applied for a disability pension and received it. He died at his home in unincorporated Rouzerville from mouth cancer "with accompanying infectious bronchitis & diarrhea" and "valvular heart disease & chronic nephritis" contributing factors. His death certificate claims an 1828 birth year, but his actual birth year is uncertain.
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted at the stated age of thirty-two in Franklin County October 16, 1862, mustered into federal service at Chambersburg November 4 as a private with Co. G, 158th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company August 12, 1863.
In 1870, he was a distiller living with his family in Washington Township, Franklin County. On February 9, 1892, he applied for a disability pension and received it. He died at his home in unincorporated Rouzerville from mouth cancer "with accompanying infectious bronchitis & diarrhea" and "valvular heart disease & chronic nephritis" contributing factors. His death certificate claims an 1828 birth year, but his actual birth year is uncertain.
Born in what was then called Elizabethtown, he was the son of David Henry & Nancy (Metz) Creager. He married Pennsylvania-born Hannah Brooks and fathered David R. (b. 03/27/56), Margaret (b. @1858), Elizabeth Prudence (b. 04/17/58 or 60 - married Franklin Addlesparger), Thomas Brooks (b. 05/29/60 or 62), Anna A. (b. @1862, d. 1876), John (b. 06/02/66), Lydia Catherine "Kate" (b. 05/20/68 or 69 - married John B. Crout), and William H. (b. @1872, d. 1888). In 1860, he was a farm laborer living with his family in Quincy Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted at the stated age of thirty-two in Franklin County October 16, 1862, mustered into federal service at Chambersburg November 4 as a private with Co. G, 158th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company August 12, 1863.
In 1870, he was a distiller living with his family in Washington Township, Franklin County. On February 9, 1892, he applied for a disability pension and received it. He died at his home in unincorporated Rouzerville from mouth cancer "with accompanying infectious bronchitis & diarrhea" and "valvular heart disease & chronic nephritis" contributing factors. His death certificate claims an 1828 birth year, but his actual birth year is uncertain.
A Civil War veteran, he was drafted at the stated age of thirty-two in Franklin County October 16, 1862, mustered into federal service at Chambersburg November 4 as a private with Co. G, 158th Pennsylvania Infantry (aka "Drafted Militia"), and honorably discharged with his company August 12, 1863.
In 1870, he was a distiller living with his family in Washington Township, Franklin County. On February 9, 1892, he applied for a disability pension and received it. He died at his home in unincorporated Rouzerville from mouth cancer "with accompanying infectious bronchitis & diarrhea" and "valvular heart disease & chronic nephritis" contributing factors. His death certificate claims an 1828 birth year, but his actual birth year is uncertain.
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