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NAMED for: Oliver S. Porter, Mill Owner

 

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    I suspect many  of us who have enjoyed sharing in the Porterdale Web Site would start a letter about Prentis Ollis like Lynn Rumley by saying; "I never met Prentis Ollis but will always remember him."  The same could  said of most of the people who have shared their memories of Porterdale.
 
I would also add that "I do and will always appreciate the fact that Prentis Ollis shared his memories of Porterdale and brought Porterdale folks together in sharing their stories and in realizing again how much we had all had in common. "  God bless his memory. His family are in my thoughts and prayers.

My husband and I met with the Porterdale class of 1943 for a thirty year reunion back in 1973.  We met at a restaurant in Covington. I found it interesting to see how many of these students had,  through hard work and faith in God,  gone on to succeed in college and business when most of their parents, like mine, had struggled to get just a few years of Elementary School (then called "Grammar school").

As we all know, most of the schools in the South (certainly in Georgia after Sherman's march to the sea) were destroyed in the Civil War. My father, a very bright man, had had  only a few years of schooling but had basically taught himself to read.

The people in the devastated South, with the Great depression and the boll wieval's destruction of cotton crops,  were just happy to get a job where they could feed their family.    
 
 Ruth Shaw