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MONROE COUNTY WEST VIRGINIA - BIOS: CREBS, Conrad
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Submitted to the West Virginia Biographies Project by:
SSpradling@aol.com
September 20, 1999
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A History of Monroe County, West Virginia
Oren F. Morton, B. Lit.
Staunton, VA
The McClure Company, Inc.
1916
p. 331-332
CONRAD CREBS
Conrad (b. 1760) (Lucy Brunen, 1784) was a native of Hesse Cassel, and came
to America as a soldier under Burgoyne. He settled at Winchester, where he
had been a prisoner of war. His wife, whom he married at Frederick, Md., was
a descendant of Sir Walter Raleigh, and also a relative of the mother of
George Washington. William B. (b. 1808) (Mary Ragan, 1832), fourth son of
Conrad, was drawn to Monroe through a love of adventure and settled here
after his marriage.
C: Virginia L. (James Claiborne)-Lewis A. (Mahala Shanklin)-Wil-ham C. (b.
1837) (Mattie Tooke)-Harriet-Otho H.-Fannie-R. 3. (1847-1912)-Ella G.-Floy
(Ernest Rochefort). Claiborne, whose daughters are Mrs. George DeVere and
Bettie, was a descendant of the famous William Claiborne, of Kent Island, Md.
L. A., W. C., and 0. H. saw much service in the Confederate army. L. A.,
captured at Gettysburg, made an unsuccessful attempt to escape from the
military prison at Fort Delaware. He was one of the guard that escorted the
remains of General Stonewall Jackson to Richmond. W. C. was one of the men
that boarded and captured the ship "Harriet Lane" This was one of the most
memorable exploits in the annals of war. W. C., 0. H., and the Rocheforts
settled in Texas R. 3., a resident of Union, had for two consecutive nights
a most vivid dream of buried treasure on Calder's Peak. Ella G. has been 33
years a teacher.
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