When John D Creasy was born about 1848, in Maywood, Lewis, Missouri, United States, his father, Daniel D Creasey, was 34 and his mother, Elizabeth Patton Reading, was 25. He lived in Union Township, Lewis, Missouri, United States in 1860. He died in 1872, in Dover, Lewis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 25.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The Battle of Gettysburg involved the largest number of casualties of the entire Civil war and is often described as the war's turning point. Between 46,000 and 51,000 soldiers lost their lives during the three-day Battle. To honor the fallen soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln read his historic Gettysburg Address and helped those listening by redefining the purpose of the war.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English: variant of Creasey 1.
Apparently also an Americanized form of an unidentified German surname, possibly Kriese or Griese , or Swiss German Krüsi, a variant of Kraus .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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