John Curtis Cretcher

JOHN C. CRETCHER, farmer, Section 27, P. O. Sedgwick, owns 134 acres, fifty in cultivation, with good bearing orchard, dwelling 14 x 24 with an L 12 x 14, one and a half stories high; barn 16 x 20, and all necessary outbuildings.

John as born in Ohio, November 9, 1836, where he resided until 1862 when he enlisted in Company G, Ninety-fifth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and was with his command in the Army of the Tennessee, and in the engagement at Richmond, Ky., was captured and paroled. In the engagement at Gun Town, Miss., was again captured and taken to Andersonville Prison, which he entered June 10,1864, and remained there until November 25, when being sick he was paroled with 10,000 and sent to Annapolis, Md. His ideas of the horrors of Andersonville Prison is that the English language is inadequate to describe it. After exchange he returned to his command at Selma, Ala., where he remained until the close of the war, and was mustered out September 12, 1865.

He was married September 26, 1867, to Miss Mary J. Hornbeck, a native of Ohio; they have three children -- McPherson, Hattie Pearl and Frank. Is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and has been on the School Board in some capacity ever since the organization of the district.