Marion Creek

    Marion Creek, a prominent citizen of Jackson Township, owns a good farm of thirty-four acres on section 11, which is well improved and well tiled, having 600 rods on twenty acres. In addition to working his farm he has been engaged in the manufacture of tile since the spring of 1881, at Trenton. He burns about twenty kilns each year, each kiln containing from 800 to 1,000 rods of tile.

    Mr. Creek was born in Jackson Township, December 20, 1857, and is a son of Joseph and Hulda (Lanning) Creek, and grandson of Joseph and Rebecca (White) Creek, and Robert and Hulda Lanning, early settlers of Blackford County. He was reared and educated in his native township, and is now one of its most prosperous and influential citizens.

    He was married October 8, 1880, to Margaret A. Whitaker, who was born in Jay County, Indiana, January 1, 1865, a daughter of John and Hannah (Rigby) Whitaker, the former now living in Jay County. Her mother died in the fall of 1879. Mr. and Mrs. Creek have two children -Florence, born March 28,1 1882, and Ethel El., born July 13, 1884.

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