Re: Creasons of CO and the Cresson gold mine
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Re: Creasons of CO and the Cresson gold mine
James Creason 2/18/06
Hello James Creason,
That's fascinating about the lawyer and the mining claim during WW II. I hope your brother remembers something more.
An archivist at The Cripple Creek District Museum wrote that the Cresson Mine was incorporated in 1895. The story is that the incorporators won the mine in a poker game in Chicago. It included other mines named the Mary L., the Sadie Bell, the Draper, the Robin Hood and the Friar Tuck. Could Sadie Bell be a reference to your grandmother, Sarah Desdemona Creason?!
As you know, your father was 22 in 1895 (he was listed as a miner in 1920). From the census records it seems his family came to Colorado between 1874 and 1877 and in 1880 were living in Conejos County where David Willis Creason was a stockman. (The Cresson Mine is in Teller County.)
In 1880 Alba (or Alla) Creason was an 18 year old man living in a boarding house and listed as a miner in Gunnison County. He was born in Missouri as were your grandparents, although they were married in 1865, after he was born. Does that first name ring any bells?
Os Cresson