Augustus R. Creed

1)      William Colby Creed, born July 4, 1868, married Mattie Matilda Piersall, born July 23, 1872, on October 1888.

2)       Sarah Frances Creed, born April 9, 1870 and died June 13, 1955.  She was married to Grant Hill. 

3)      John Oliver Creed, born March 27, 1872 and died October 24, 1945.  He was married to Ella Haley, born July 21, 1886.

4)      Washburn Creed, born March 4, 1874 and died June 2, 1960.  He was married to Drusilla Kelly, born August 17, 1876 and died April 26, 1950.

5)      Minnie Ola Creed, born April 12, 1876 and died August 25, 1923.  She married Elihu Washburn White, born August 6, 1878, on December 18, 1904.

6)      Benjamin Creed 

This family lived on a farm known as the Jim Perry farm, now owned by Jim Bearden.  The Creed family farmed a half section (320 acres) which was originally owned by Jesse G. Allen, issued to him by certificate 203, Vol 2 as a member of Peter’s Colony, April 15, 1850.  The land was patented on August 25, 1855.  This land was owned next by W.W. Hall and was sold at auction on the steps of the Tarrant County Court House for $320 to Elisha Newton in 1868, and later owned by A.R. Creed and wife, Jane, who died last half of the 1800’s.   On February 17, 1905, their children (heirs) sold 160 acres.  Mary Bird, an orphan girl, lived with the Gus Creed family until she married Gaines Tatum Blevins.  The Creeds moved away in 1904.  Their house, built in 1883, was blown down in 1923.

William Colby Creed, born July 4, 1868 married Mattie Matilda Piersall, born July 23, 1872, on October 11, 1888.  They lived on the Creed farm after marriage.  The farm was fenced first with rails, when barbed wire came, rails were cut into stove wood and taken to town and sold for $1.00 a load.  Beans were twenty pounds for $1.00 and rice was twenty pounds for $1.00.  Mustang grapes hauled to town in a wagon bed sold for $1.00.  William’s parents and grandmother died of pneumonia within a week. 

Ben Creed, brother to Gus, was born 1858.  He never married.  He cared for two nieces.  Erva Suelene White  Hutsell, a grand daughter, has a picture of him standing by his gravestone which he had erected before his death.

Gravestones in Mt. Gilead Cemetery read as follows:

John O. Creed   b. Feb. 5, 1812     d. Feb. 11, 1894

Sarah (wife)      b. Aug. 13, 1814   d. Dec. 11, 1884

It is possible that these where their children; Gus, Ben, Palina, John, and Cis.

John was the father of Etta Chapman, who is the mother of Tom Chapman, lawyer, W.T. Wagoner Building.

Source:  Erva Suelene (White) Hutsell.