The second Oak Grove Church was built in Academy (Hillsboro) by Nicholas Stulting, brother of Hermanus Stulting. The wooden building was built on a lot in the town given by Sherman H. Clark. The church was replace by a the present brick building in…
Caption on back: "Miki Sawaden talking to T. F. Harris in Elizabeth Saunders Home for war orphans in Japan. Note M.S! expression." (Harris at that time was President of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation)
Tombstone in Shanghai, China (no longer exists) marks the graves of three children born to Absalom and Caroline Stulting Sydenstricker. Maud F. (b. 1894, d. 1894). Arthur A. (b. 1888, d. 1890) and Edith L. (b. 1886, d. 1890) died with a month of each…
U. S. Senator Jennings Randolph speaking at the 1974 Grand Opening of the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace in Hillsboro, W.Va. Seated in background, left to right: Jane Hobson, Henry Browne, Houston Simmons, Mrs. Marie Leist.
U. S. Senator Jennings Randolph speaking at the 1974 Grand Opening of the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace in Hillsboro, W.Va. Seated to his immediate left: Former W.Va. Governor Cecil Underwood. To his right: Marie Leist, President of the PSB Birthplace…
Wedding Portrait of John Lossing Buck and Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker. This snapshot was sent to Lossing's parents in Pleasant Valley, NY. On it Pearl, who had never met them, wrote "We look pleased, and we are!!"
Wooden Sign at the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace in Hillsboro, W.Va. Sign reads:" Birthplace of Pearl S. Buck Nobel Prize Author 1892-1973" with Sketch of Pearl Buck