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- Robert W. and Ellen (Gault) McCready, were prepared as teachers and taught in the schools of Wyoming, Iowa, and other places until 1872, when they located on a farm near Wyoming, Iowa, where they lived for many years.
William McCready, Robert W.'s father, was a pioneer in Iowa. Before the time of the railroads, he and his wife and two sons traveled by way of Burlington to Iowa City and settled there in the year 1844. The same year he fell a victim to the fever with which the country was infested and died. The family went back to the old home in Ohio, where the sons were educated and grew to manhood.
Robert W. McCready went to Iowa again in 1870 but the balance of the family remained in Ohio. The McCreadys came to this country from Scotland and settled in or near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, about 1789, and many of the family live there at this date and at points nearby in Ohio.
From:
History of Oregon Illistrated
Vol. 3
BY: Charles H. Carney
The Pioneer Historical Publishing Company
Chicago - Portland 1922
R. W. McCREADY, farmer, Madison Twp., Sec. 14; P.O. Wyoming; born December 14, 1836, in Columbiana Co., Ohio; he attended the Hayesville Institute, Ashland Co., four years; at the age of 19, he commenced teaching school, and so continued for about eight years; in 1870, he came to Wyoming, and taught during the falls and winters of 1870, and 1871, and 1872; he owns 160 acres of land. Married Miss Ellen Gault in 1863; she was born in Ashland Co., Ohio; had four children, three living? Robert W., Willie and infant not named; lost William E., aged ten years. Republican; Presbyterian Church.
Source: History of Jones County, Iowa, Western Historical Company, Chicago, 1879, page 617.
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1836 - 1889 (52 years)