The Crepe MyrtleThis is a family story which traces the live of two family - Packards and the Fosters. The Packards left England in 1638, settled though out New England, and produced a Mississippi Steamboat Capt.- Charles H. Packard. The Fosters fought the British in Old Charles Towne, S. Carolina. In 1775-1778 and were part of the Old Three Hundred who settled in Texas in 1822. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 3 |
Section 3 | 11 |
Section 4 | 18 |
Section 5 | 26 |
Section 6 | 34 |
Section 7 | 41 |
Section 8 | 50 |
Section 15 | 123 |
Section 16 | 142 |
Section 17 | 152 |
Section 18 | 156 |
Section 19 | 162 |
Section 20 | 192 |
Section 21 | 200 |
Section 22 | 210 |
Section 9 | 81 |
Section 10 | 91 |
Section 11 | 95 |
Section 12 | 99 |
Section 13 | 108 |
Section 14 | 113 |
Section 23 | 226 |
Section 24 | 249 |
Section 25 | 269 |
Section 26 | 271 |
Section 27 | 273 |
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