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May Elizabeth (Everly) McCreery |
May
Elizabeth (Everly) McCreery was born on Aug. 2, 1882 in or near Herring, Preston
County, WV, the daughter of Absalom and
Sarah Jane (Carroll) Everly.
May married John G. McCreery (1887- ? ) in about 1909. She was four years older than her husband. The McCreerys dwelled in Morgantown and had four children -- George McCreery, William McCreery, Margaret Keechel and Jane Carroll Muha.
When the federal census was enumerated in 1910, the McCreerys made their home next to May's widowed father and single brother Oliver on Webster Avenue in Morgantown, where John was employed as a carpenter.
May and John are mentioned in the 1923 History of West Virginia, Old and New which simply states that they lived in Monongalia County.
They
made their home for more than three decades at 475 Ohio Avenue in the Westover
outskirts of Morgantown. They belonged to the Riverside Methodist Church.
May died at the age of 75, in the Vincent Pallotti Hospital, on June 28, 1958. She is buried beside her father in East Oak Grove Cemetery. In her obituary, the Morgantown Dominion News said "She had been a resident of Westover for 36 years..."
John outlived May, but his fate is unknown.
Circa 1958, son George lived in Dayton, OH; son Glenn in Cumberland, MD; daughter Margaret Keechel at the family home in Westover; and daughter Jane Muha in Mercer, PA.
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