LDS film # 09962913, Excerpts from History of Kentucky, Illustrated, 1885, by
Battle, Perrin, and Kniffin.  Appeared in the Central City Messenger and
Times-Argus, Central City, Kentucky, in seven installments during May, June,
and July 1959.

Dr. Milton Creel Was Railroader, Miner, Druggist, Peddler, Doctor
in Central City

DR. MILTON P. CREEL, one of the leading and hard-working
physicians of Muhlenberg County, was born October 8, 1851, near
Atlanta, Ga.  He is the eldest of nine children born to Newton
and Treacy [sic] J. (Balinger) Creel, natives of Fayette and
Troup counties, GA, respectively, of French and English origin.
Newton Creel was the son of John Creel.  The latter was born in
1788, married Mary Belcher.  He was a soldier in the war of 1812,
and was a farmer and son of Thomas Creel, who married a Miss
Stamps.  They were natives of Virginia and moved in an early day
to Kentucky.  Newton Creel served in the late war; was in Company
D, Twentieth Alabama Regiment, and participated in the battles of
New Hope Church, Shiloh, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge and
Lookout Mountain.  He received a wound in the hip from which he
died.  Dr. Creel was reared on a farm and received a limited
education.  He did not attend school after nine years of age on
account of the war.  At sixteen he worked in the railway shops at
Selma, AL, for three years; then in a baker shop two years; then
in the drug business for about three or four years at Warrior,
AL; then engaged in peddling for five years in KY, MO, AR, TN,
and MS.  In 1880 he attended lectures at Louisville Medical
College, and graduated in the spring of 1882-83.  He located in
Central City, where he has since been successfully engaged.  In
1877 he took charge of an engine for Central Coal & Iron Company
for one year.  He was married December 21, 1875, to Martha C.
Prince, of Calhoun County, AL, a daugther of John Henry and
Elizabeth (Gilleland) Prince, natives of North Carolina and of
Irish descent.  John H. Prince died of measles at Okalona, Miss.,
while in the Confederate service.  He had a brother in the
Federal army.  He was the son of William Prince, who was born in
Ireland, and who married Hannah Barton, of Hall County, GA.  He
was in the Indian war with Gen. Jackson.  Dr. Creel had born to
him three children: Charles H., Daisy J. and William B.  The
Doctor is a member of the F.& A.M. and K.of P.

Creel Balinger Belcher Stamps Prince Gilleland Barton Jackson
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Fayette-GA Troup-GA VA AL Calhoun-AL NC MS Ireland Hall-GA

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