Joseph Creek

    Joseph Creek was born in Highland County, Ohio, January 2, 1835, a son of Joseph and Rebecca (White) Creek, also natives of Highland County, the former of German parentage and the latter of Irish. His paternal grandfather, Joseph Creek, was a soldier in the war of 1812, and died soon after his return home from the war. In 1839 the parents of our subject moved to Blackford County, and settled in the woods of Jackson Township, making the trip with a team and having to cut their way through the woods from Lick Creek Township. They made a tent of sheets in which the family lived until the father and older boys could get a cabin built. In this cabin the father lived until his death, which occurred in August, 1879, at the age of seventy-five years.

    Joseph Creek, Jr., was married January 20, 1855 to Hulda Lanning, who was born in Guernsey County, Ohio, in 1837, a daughter of Robert and Hulda Lanning, early settlers of Blackford County, where they both died. Mr. and Mrs. creek have had eleven children, seven of whom are living -Harriet, Marion, John W., Emma, Joseph McClellan, Lucy C. and Lydia. Four died in infancy. Mrs. Creek died January 21, 1881.

    Mr. Creek enlisted in October, 1864, in the war of the Rebellion, and was assigned to Company H, Fifty-first Indiana Infantry. He participated in the battles at Franklin and Nashville, and was discharged in the fall of 1865.

Source: Biographical and Historical Record of Jay and Blackford Counties, Indiana by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1887.