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Photo Courtesy of the Washington County Historical Society
The Cree House was located on the northeast corner of Greene and Dye Streets
Cree Hotel The Cree House, D. H. Cree Proprietor and Millinery Establishment of Mrs. L.C. Cree History of Washington County, Page 262 Published in 1890-1891 Courtesy of Eileen Thomas
A first class house of the Cree Hotel conducted by Mr. D.H.Cree, a native of Newport, born and raised in the town and has conducted the house for the past ten or twelve years.
(Louisa C.) Mrs. L.C. Cree, his wife and help mate conducts a Millinery Emporium in which capacity she has been in this business for 24 years. She is a native of this county and learned the cut of millinery in Wheeling, W.Va., and established herself in business in 1867, then married. She afterwards married D.H. Cree, and here we find them today so far in the journey of life. In her millinery emporium is carruda fine lot of hats and bonnets trimmed and untrimmed, besides an extensive showing of general millinery goods, such as ribbons, flowers, plumes, feathers, etc. in great variety. The very latest blocks and designs are received by this house and appear in the show cases simultaneous with their introduction in our eastern cities. Louisa Cree Shop on Greene Street.
David Hamilton Cree was born in 1847 died in 1919 in Newport, married Louisa G. Heintzellman on March 6, 1871, She was born in 1846 and died in 1920 in Newport. Both are buried in the Newport Cemetery. They had one son, James Alfred, born in 1872 and died in 1943, married Bertha Alice Hayes on March 1, 1899. She was born on Friday, November 25, 1870 and died in 1937. Both are buried in the Newport Cemetery. Bertha was the daughter of Preston and Mary L. Rea Hays. They had three children
James Everett Cree Ruth Alberta, born June 21, 1905 and died August 27, 1906 Eugene Hayes, born November 6, 1902 and died November 11, 1902
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