This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: CREASY/CRESIE/BOLES/BOWLES/HOGE/HOGUE/DAVIS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HBC.2ACI/1222 Message Board Post: MY GRANDFATHER WAS ED HARRISON CRESIE. WE KNOW HARDLY ANYTHING ABOUT HIM AND ARE ON A DESPERATE QUEST TO GET INFORMATION. WE BELIEVE HIS MOTHER WAS LUCY ( MAIDEN NAME UNKNOWN) CREASY/CRESIE AND HIS FATHER MIGHT POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN CHARLIE OR CHARLES DYKER CREASY/CRESIE. IT IS OUR BELIEF THAT LUCY DIED SOMEWHERE AROUND THE YEAR 1891. WE KNOW THAT SOMETIME AFTER ED WAS BORN IN 1881 THAT CHARLIE EITHER DIED OR HE AND LUCY DIVORCED. LUCY REMARRIED A. J. BOLES/BOWLES (ANDREW JACKSON) IN CLARKSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, TENNESSEE IN 1888. TOGETHER, THEY HAD A CHILD, MARCUS JAMES, M. J. AFTER LUCY DIED, A. J. GAVE ED TO ROBERT AND CORDELIA (CORDIE) DAVIS. HE THEN BECAME ED DAVIS. WHEN HE MARRIED MY GRANDMOTHER, BERTHA MAE HOGE/HOGUE, IN CLARKSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, TN. IN 1907, TOOK THE CREASY/CRESIE NAME BACK. IF ANYONE WOULD HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF THIS FAMILY, PLEASE GET BACK TO ME. THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT MYSTERY TO MY FAMILY FOR MANY YEARS. I'D APPRECIATE ANY HELP. THANK YOU. WILLIA! M CRESIE cresiezoe@aol.com