The following obituary was published in The Pratt Republican in Kansas on September 30, 1909.
W. P. Creeden died at his home in the second ward last Monday, of consumption. The remains were interred at Green Lawn Tuesday. Mr. Creeden has lived in Pratt but a short time, having come from Meade.
William P. Creeden is buried in Greenlawn cemetery in Pratt, Kansas. William was only in his 40s when he died. He was married to Mary Catherine Snyder in Clinton County, Ohio in 1885. The family was living in Darke County, Ohio when the 1900 census was taken. By 1905, William and his family had moved to Sedgwick, Kansas. Children listed in the 1905 census were Minnie, Elsie, Orval, Ralph, Ellsworth, William, Opal and Violet.
In the 1900 census, William and his family were living next to John Creedan and his family. John was the son of Patrick Creedan and Hannah Hoover of Clinton County, Ohio. I suspect that John and W. P. were brothers or cousins. Patrick and Hannah had a son named Patrick William that may have gone by William. I lose the trail of Patrick William around the time that W. P. married Mary Snyder.
My sister and I have several DNA matches to descendants of John and William, so we're related to both of these families. The matches are similar in size which indicates our relationship to John and William could be the same. John was a half-brother of my 2x great-grandfather Timothy Creeden.
I've seen several Ancestry.com trees giving William's parents as Timothy and Ellen Creeden from Hamilton County, Ohio. An obituary for Timothy and Ellen's son William shows he died in 1901. This William was married to Margaret Nolan and some of their children were born in the same years as W. P. and Mary's children.
Related posts:
- Patrick William Creedan
- Which William is which?
- Which William is which? - Part 2
- Obituary for Timothy and Ellen's son William
Sunday's Obituary is a prompt developed by Leslie Ann at Ancestors Live Here.
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