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The life of Davenport Padgett spanned part of the 19th century and most of the twentieth. His almost-photographic memory goes back to 1898 when he was four and saw his first train. Beginning with this first memory, he tells the reader story after story that reveal a remarkable man who loved life, appreciated people, and enjoyed every day. He said he lived his life as his father taught him: to treat every man as his brother and every woman as his sister. He also said he believed that people were good if you'd let them be and that love is the most important thing in the world.
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William Patchit (Paget/Padget), born ca. 1707 in North Carolina, married Sarah Blitchenden, born ca. 1716 in North Carolina. Josiah Paget I, born ca. 1750 in South Carolina, was the fourth of their seven children. These volumes include family history information about the descendants of Josiah Paget through the 1990s. Descendants and relatives lived in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Texas, Kansas, New Mexico, Alabama and elsewhere.
Samuel Etheredge was living in Virginia in 1753 when he obtained a land grant in South Carolina in what is now Saluda County. He and his wife, Sarah Mayson, settled there and raised four sons, William, Henry, Aaron and Lott. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in South Carolina.
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In 1905 Lawrence Peter Hollis went to Springfield, Massachusetts, before beginning his job as the secretary of the YMCA at Monaghan Mill in Greenville, South Carolina. While there, he met James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, and learned of the fledgling game. Armed with Dr. Naismith's rules of the game and a basketball he bought in New York, Hollis returned to the mill and changed the face of athletics in South Carolina. Lawrence Peter Hollis was one of the first to introduce basketball south of the Mason-Dixon line, and the game quickly gained popularity in the textile mill villages throughout South Carolina. In 1921 Hollis and others organized a tournament to determine the best mill...