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Saturday, July 30, 2005
delmer creech   This is Delmer Creech (b. Nov. 28, 1906 - d. Mar. 6, 1967), my grandfather (Pappaw). I say Pappaw although I never called him that. I was never able to as he died when I was only 5 months old. There are pictures of him holding me as a baby so I guess we met. On the left is a portrait of him as a young man, not sure when, probably in the 1920's - dapper, with that hair slicked back. On the right is as old as he got - around the year he died - looks a lot like my Dad now.Delmer grew up in Dionne, Harlan County, Kentucky, along the Poor Fork of the Cumberland River. As a very young man he worked with his father, Joseph A. Creech, in the Timber/Logging business. My Dad said he showed him stumps of trees when he was young that they had cut on their land, old American Chesnuts and Oaks, that were wide enough to lay down across - wow! Later he was a Coal Miner, like most people at that time (1930's - 40's - 50's), and was a Carpenter. His heart was quite poorly affected by sucking black coal dust for 20 years or so, enlarged, etc., and finally fought back and won in an A&P grocery store in 1967. If that had happened today, he would still be alive. My father has had two heart attacks, several Angioplasties, an Aneurysm Resections and Double Bypass surgery. He'll be around for a while longer thank God.
posted by + Alan - 10:10 AM
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Welcome to one of my slight addictions - genealogical research. I thought it would be a good idea to start a blog devoted to this alone. I'll use this as a place to "keep" my records together and share them with my family members who are interested. Volenti Nil Difficile! helpful links Harlan County Research recent posts
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