FRIENDS & NEIGHBORS: Creech Family
BOX 37
The Creech family is the most important family to the history of Pine Mountain Settlement School. It was “Uncle” William Creech’s request for a school that led to the founding of Pine Mountain Settlement School. The Creech family lived only a short distance from the School and their relatives not far from them. The family settled the Pine Mountain valley very early in the history of the region,
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Aunt Sal and Ethel de Long processing maple syrup to make sugar. [VI_37_1198.jpg]
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Uncle William and Aunt Sal re-enacting their wedding, standing in front of their original cabin, now moved to PMSS
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Aunt Bet Scott (Aunt Sal’s sister) with blond child in front of fireplace and “shucky beans” hanging above the two. [Aunt Sal and young Brit Wilder with dried vegetables behind them. [Vl_37_1185.jpg]
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Aunt Bet Scott with two boys. Boy to her left is wearing a hat.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Aunt Bet Scott in doorway with two young boys.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Aunt Bet Scott seated in front of cabin with two boys on her right.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Aunt Bet Scott to left with [?] to right in front of picket fence.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Aunt Bet Scott, Aunt Sal’s sister, seated and holding large dark bonnet in her hand.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Aunt Bet Scott seated on porch with basket to her right
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Three women seated outside, with large dog in foreground.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Aunt Bet Scott [?] standing in yard in front of porch.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Young woman spinning on wheel on the porch at Big Log.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 “Jerry and Jean,” 1924 [wedding ?]
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- Friends & Family: VI 37
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Woman seated in front of spinning machine on the porch at Big Log.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 “Aunt” Leah Smith seated in front of spinning wheel, carding. Location on PMSS campus unknown.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 “Aunt” Leah Smith seated in front of spinning wheel, carding. Location on PMSS campus unknown.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Aunt Leah Smith plucking dulcimer on her lap
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Aunt Leah Smith bowing a dulcimer. Seated on porch at unknown location.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 William Creech portrait in Union uniform of the Civil War. [Photograph used to create drawing of William Creech. ]
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Four women seated on the porch at Big Log. Women are carding and spinning. Woman to far left is holding a baby.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Woman ironing with flat iron on the porch at Big Log.
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- Friends & Family: Portrait photograph of Henry Creech as young boy. [Vl_37_1194.jpg]
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 “Rhoda Creech Wilder’s family” From left: Kermit, Brit, Sally, John, ?, ?, ?. Standing in row with rail fence behind
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Uncle William seated in front of log structure (crib ?) with gun across his shoulders and powder horn at his right side.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Uncle William Creech and Aunt Sally Creech on porch [of their home ?] in front of spinning wheel
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Aunt Sal milking cow under a tree.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Porch of home with two unidentified women.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Woman with two children. Figure at rail fence in the background.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Uncle William and Aunt Sal Creech standing in front of “snow-ball” [hydrangea] bush.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Aunt Sal and Ethel de Long on rocky road.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Group of women including Aunt Sal to far right. Sitting on porch at Big Log.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Aunt Sal holding bundle of sticks [flax ?].
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Uncle William Creech and Aunt Sal on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary. Aunt Sal is wearing her original wedding dress. [close view detail. See pmss_1203f]
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Uncle William and Aunt Sal with grand children of Henry Creech [?] seated to the far left of Uncle William.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Aunt Sal in front of her favorite rose ? bush
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Aunt Sal at the loom in the ‘Creech Cabin’, after move to PMSS campus and before chinking of the cabin.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Aunt Sal
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Aunt Sal at spinning wheel in yard. View 1.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Aunt Sally Creech and grandchild, Brit Wilder [?] in interior of home.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Aunt Sal (lft.) and PMSS staff making maple syrup and sugar. [Vl_37_1202.jpg]
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Aunt Sal seated at her churn in home interior.
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Aunt Sal at the Small spinning wheel view 2
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- Friends & Family: VI 37 Aunt Sal at the Small spinning wheel, view 4