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Surnames: Cregar, Coleman, Vandyke
Classification: Query
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Looking for Richard Nicholas Cregar who married Caroline Coleman. Book 2 page 491 shows
marriage of Nicholas Crager to Caroline Coleman on 12 Dec. 1866, Daviess Co., IN.
1880 census has their surname spelled Kreager.
Richard Kreager,33, b. OH,parents b. OH, occupation, Engineer. Caroline, 33, b. Prussia,
parents b. Prussia
Children are listed as Joseph, age 12, Ida, age 9, Venolia, age 7,Charles, age 3, Louisa,
age 10 months.
Various spellings of this surname can be found as Cregar, Crager, Crigger, Cragor,Creager
and Kreager.
Richard Nicholas's parents were John Cregar and Mary Ann Vandyke of Hamilton and
Preble County, Ohio. They came to Daviess Co., IN in the mid 1850's.