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My father, Bill Creaghan, always had an abiding interest in preserving the history of the J.D. Creaghan family. I can remember him putting together a family tree in Burnt Church on the back of an Anderson store calendar some fifty years ago or so. About twenty-five years ago I decided to build a website that would do the job. Dad provided plenty of ideas and suggestions for the website and wrote some of the entries, including biographies of his mother and father, and J.D. Creaghan.
John McManus was also a great help, with photos, documents and stories of his own, which he generously shared with me. John McManus and Dad both knew J.D. Creaghan quite well. Besides Priscilla Hazen (while her mother served overseas as a nurse in World War One), they were the only grandchildren to actually live for a time under the same roof with the family patriarch. And Bernie Morrison provided – and continues to provide – a wealth of very helpful information as well.
If you have an obituary, short biography, story, article, or video about a dearly departed family member you would like to share, please email it to me at creaghan@gmail.com.
Lawrence Creaghan
Montreal, September 22, 2024