Ed and Esther (Creasey) Black family history

Children:  Cordie,   Esther,  Sara,   Clifford,  Chet   Clinton,    Algernon Jr. "Lonnie",    Mabel   Lloyd,

 Algernon and Maggie Long ~ Creasey

South Dakota branch
Charles Mix, County pioneers

Updated Saturday, February 07, 2009

Creasey Photos

My data is very limited at this time. I am just beginning to research my grandmother (Esther Belle Creasey's) genealogy. If you have anything for this history, please, please, please contact me!

My great-grandfather was Algernon Cidney "Lonnie" CREASEY from Geddes, Charles Mix County, SD. He was born in Illinois Nov. 10, 1870. Algernon married Maggie LONG on Oct. 10, 1904 at the home of her parents in Charles Mix County. She was born in July of 1875 in Charles Mix County. Maggie died in the hospital in Yankton Sept. 14, 1913, at the age of 37 years, 7 months. The cause is stated as a heart clot. She is buried at Geddes.

I think I know that his father's name was Perfect Creasey of Springfield, Ill. His mother's name was Margaret Pervine.  There were two Pervine children, Harvey and Dave. Dave was adopted out to a family by the name of LaRue.  Margaret was married once more, to a Mr. Martin. (See photo page.)

After Maggie died, Lonnie next married Mary (FRY) MENZIE (1914) .  

After Mary's death in 1918, he married a third time to a woman, Anna E.  COONEY, with two children: Lite and Henrietta.  They went to California. His children, Clinton, Algernon, 12; Mabel C., 9, and Lloyd, 8 moved with them. In the 1920  L.A. County, Calif. Dist 8 census, Lonnie was listed as age 50 and as born in Illinois as were his parents. Lite and Henrietta were listed as ages 11 and 9, respectively.

Algernon was found dead, seated on a park bench in California (I have been told). According to his death certificate, he died at 55 years, two months, 11 days  on Feb. 27, 1926, at Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, Calif. Also listed on the death certificate is Huntington Tract Dirt Road (maybe where the bench was?), Pacific Palisades. He and his family lived on Walnut Drive, San Antonio Twp., LA County (1920 Census).   Speculation has it that he was poisoned by his third wife. I have not documented this yet.

His remains were returned March 3, 1926 to Geddes for burial alongside his first wife and mother of his children, Maggie in Pleasant Lawn Cemetery.

Obituary of Maggie Long Creasey

Mrs. A.C. Creasey died at the hospital in Yankton Thursday, Sept. 4, 1913. In relation to 

the cause of her sudden death we quote the following from a letter written to Dr. Seapy 

by the attending physician and which Dr. Seapy kindly permitted us to publish in this 

connection.

  “The painful duty falls upon me to inform you that our good patient, Mrs. Creasey,  died 

last evening at about 7 o’clock. She was doing splendidly up to about 9 a.m., so much so 

that when I stepped into her room at about 8 o’clock, she asked to write home to inform 

her folks that she would be ready to leave on Saturday. This I granted her to do because 

everything looked and seemed so favorable and we had not the slightest doubt that she 

would be ready to go. A little after 9, however, she developed an oppression in the chest.

It was plain that an embolus had formed and was working its way through her heart. I 

have never had a patient who seemed so hard for us to have go, but I have yet to read 

about a pronounced case of  cardiac embolism and it is a terrible thing to have overcome 

a patient.”

   She had been through two operations splendidly and it was expected that she would 

return and soon be well and strong.

   Her remains were brought to Geddes Friday evening and the funeral service was held 

in the Congregational church Saturday afternoon, Rev. Cassel officiating. The remains 

were laid to rest in Pleasant Lawn Cemetery.    The church was crowded with sympathiz-

ing friends and neighbors showing her a marked degree of high regard in which the 

deceased was held.

   She was born in Marion County, Iowa on Feb. 1, 1876, and moved to Nebraska with her

family in 1879. Moved to Charles Mix County, SD in 1883 where the family has resided 

since.

   She was united in marriage to A. C. Creasey on Oct. 10, 1894. She was the mother of nine 

children and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Long, honored pioneers of Charles 

Mix County.

   Besides her husband, children, father and mother, she leaves two brothers and two 

sisters to mourn her loss.

    The News unites with neighbors and friends in extending sympathy in their time of 

sorrow. The path that the loving mother, wife, daughter and sister has traveled will be 

the pathway that we must take and like her, of whom we write, we trust there will be a 

loving Saviour at the dark river of death to bear the immortal soul to the golden shore 

of everlasting joy and eternal rest and peace. We will mourn her departure, but through 

the cloud of sorrow that obscures our vision may we not behold a loving Father welcom-

ing to an eternal home, promised from the beginning, another of His beloved children.

• Cordelia "Cordie"
• Esther - b. June 8, 1897 (SD) - d. Nov. , 1974 (SD).
• Sara Jane  Jan. 11, 1899
• Clifford
• Chester "Chet"
• Clinton
• Algernon Cidney, Jr. "Lonnie" - Jan. 27, 1907 (SD) - July 9, 1979 (San Diego (37), Calif.)
• Mabel C.  - b. 1910 or 1911
• Lloyd - b. 27 June 1912, SD - d.  21 July 1995 in California.

Algernon's step-children:

• Lite Cooney
• Henrietta Cooney

• Land sale in Charles Mix County - Algernon Creasey, grantor; Joseph Bridges, grantee. Legal desc.:
  24-96-67. Filed Apr. 1, 1910, Book 30 Page 356.
• Grantee: A. B. Creasey; grantor: Ernest Beck. April 12, 1916. Book 27 Page 468. Legal desc: Lots 7, 8, 9, 10,
  Blk 23.

• Pleasant Lawn and St. Ann's Catholic Cemetery are located together. Pleasant Lawn
  occupies the eastern portion; St. Ann's, the western portion. They are located in Jackson
  Township, Section 6,T97N R66W, near Geddes, SD. The town of Geddes was founded in 1900, 
  and the cemetery was plotted soon after. 

• Charles Mix Co., SD - Index to 1906 Atlas

This file is an index to the 1906 Chas. Mix Atlas, published by E. Frank Peterson.