Joseph B. Creamer
Joseph B. Creamer, farmer, Jeftersonville, was born in Berkeley County, Virginia, November 26, 1808. He came with his father, George H., to Fayette County, this state, in 1814, located about three miles southeast of Jeftersonville, where the father died, about 1860, aged eighty-four years. The mother died in Virginia.
Mr. Creamer was married to Miss Elizabeth Life, March 23, 1833. They had a family of seven children: Mary A., Emily, George C. Louis, Nathan, Andrew R., and Urben; five living. George died, in 1861; Louis, in 1862, at Bowling Green, Kentucky, while in the service of the late war. Mrs. Creamer died, in 1865, aged fifty-three years, triumphantly in the faith of the Methodist Protestant Church. Mr. Creamer is a member of the same church: both joined about 1842. He has held several of the church offices, and has been delegate to annual conference several times, and is an exemplary and worthy member. He was elected county commissioner, in 1843, and served six successive years. He has held the township offices of trustee, clerk and land appraiser, and has been conspicuously situated before the people of the county for years though not an office seeker. He is well and favorably known, and has many friends throughout the county. His son, Andrew R., is a member of the Ohio Senate. Mr. Creamer was a prominent Whig, and since the birth of the Republican party has voted that ticket. He has a farm of fifty-five acres, well improved, situated about one mile southwest of Jeffersonville. He formerly had three hundred and thirty acres. He has divided all but the home farm among his children.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County