Absalom sydenstricker biography

After fleeing religious discrimination in Holland, Pearl’s maternal family, the Stultings, settled in the Appalachian Mountains on a 16-acre farm in an area known as the “Little Levels,” surrounding the town of Hillsboro in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.

Upon arrival in Hillsboro, Pearl S. Buck’s great grandfather, Cornelius Stulting, aimed to build a house like the one they had in Holland.

Pearl Buck’s mother, Caroline, often called “Carie,” was reared in this house.

She eventually married Absalom Sydenstricker and, shortly after their marriage, the couple left for China to become missionaries, but visited this home frequently on their furloughs. During one of these visits, Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker was born in her grandfather’s home on June 26, 1892.

The house contains period antiques indicative of the lifestyle of a late-19th and early 20th-century working family.

The modest two-story, hand-built home serves as a museum dedicate