... The Creaths are descendants of a Scotch-Irish family that, at an early date, located in the Carolinas, and left their characteristic impress on the institutions of the new colony. All of the great-grandfather's family, with a single exception, were preachers, being originally Presbyterians. However, through the influence of enviroment, after living in Kentucky, some of the family adopted the faith promulgated by Alexander Campbell, variously called New Lights, Disciples, Campbellites and Christians.
Robert S. Creath, the grandfather of Squire Creath, came from Kentucky in 1803 and entered a half section of land, on Laughery creek, six miles below Versailles, near the present site of Olean. That land being in the bottoms of the creek, a flood plain formed in an early period by the wash-off of the neighboring hills, is for fertility, unexcelled by any land in the state. He found this land in the woods, which consisted of walnut and sugar tree. Here he, by the aid of his boys, cleared a farm on which he reared a family of thirteen children. ...
