I am descended from James McCreery b. Ireland abt. 1811 m.in Ripley 11 Jun 1840 to Cynthia
Johnson b. PA abt. 1822. They moved on to IL before 1850. They are recorded in the 1840
Ripley census. Also there in that census is James' father Robert McCreery b1770-1780.
Online marriage records in Ripley also show a Sarah McCreery m. to Wilson Somerville in
1837 and an Alexander McCreery m. Charlotte Hollemsbee in 1845. They might be connected.
Is anyone else researching these lines?
The online Ripley 1850 census index has many of the above surnames. I'll follow up on
them.