Buzz,
This is for the 10th anniversary Edition, Jan/Feb 2005
Please use the picture and the article.
I beleive this will be a lovely tribute.
Myrna
I will write a short introduction to the "Heritage Award" recipient section for that newsletter, too. Let me know that you got the picture ok.

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From: "Al Creasy" <trebla1@alltel.net>
To: "Myrna Liddell" <myrnabl@whidbey.com>
Subject: William Murlin Creasy
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:19:14 -0500
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Myrna....

I have added a couple of short paragraphs to the original that I provided you last year. Plus I have attached a photograph that should reproduce well in the newsletter. The photo may appear large, but Buzz can easily reduce it to fit.

Let me know if you need anything more.

Al.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Myrna Liddell 
To: Al Creasy 
Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: William Murlin Creasy

Here's what you wrote - add whatever you think is appropriate - and it will be in the January newsletter, along with the report on Larry's visit.
Myrna

At 05:06 PM 10/3/2003, you wrote:
Myrna....
Here's my attempt at writing a paragraph for W. M. Creasy.
I wrote an article about him for Larry Jones which was published in the February 1999 WFA Newsletter (page 7).
Feel free to edit my comments as you see fit.
Al
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William Murlin Creasy (1868 – 1939) was an early compiler of Wolfensberger family history. Assisted by James Bingman Sparger of Mount Airy, North Carolina, he researched, typed, and published a work titled "Sparger and Allied Families" in the middle 1930s which traced his maternal lineage back to John W. Sparger (born John Wolfenbarger, 1754 – 1840). This work consists of 126 legal size pages, originally typed on onion skin paper using carbon paper-extremely labor intensive, and with no computer to help out. The other families documented in this work are Frey and Binckele. Will was a compulsive family researcher, as he also compiled histories of the Creasy family and his wife’s family-Bagby. Copies of all his works are in the North Carolina State Archives in Raleigh.
Will was born in Surry County, NC (near Mount Airy), and spent most of his adult years in Wilmington, NC. Incidentially, his middle name came from his grandfather Murlin Sparger (1817 - 1877), who was a prominent citizen of Mount Airy. Will began work for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company in the Accounting Department where he eventually rose to the position of Supervisor of Joint Facility Accounts.
He married Gertrude Medernach Bagby and they were the parents of William Murlin Creasy, Jr. (a 1926 graduate of West Point and two-star General, head of the Army's Chemical Corps), and Helen Creasy Hunter (a civic leader in Charlotte, NC), now both deceased.
Will and his wife are buried in Elmwood cemetery in Charlotte, NC.