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Subject: [ALBUTLER] Hilary H. Kendrick's Greenville poem
Date: 18 Aug 2003 15:34:00 -0600

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Surnames: Kenrick
Classification: Query

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In my grandmother Myrtle Mixon's photo album I found a poem about Greenville from the Greenville Advocate probably in the late 1920's written by a Hilary H. Kendrick, student of U Of F marked "cousin" by my grandmother. The poem:

Greenville

To the heart of Alabama
Settlers came long ago
With the ax, saw and hammer
Blazed the trail with pain and woe.

Many decades swiftly passed
Ere the town did slowly grow
Fortunes and fame some amassed
Others with the wind did blow.

Peeping over the hilltops of time
A bright star is gleaming
"Tis the coming in full prime
A new day rustling and beaming.

So the work of a new generation enthusiasm and will
To build a city with this formation
Of active commerce and textile mill.

Whiteways shining business bustling
Streets are changing their apparel,
Children are playing, men are hustling
With ambitions greater than Prince Carol.

Civic clubs and church organizations
Led by men and women of vision
Creating a spirit of never cessation
Until they have finished their mission

Does anyone know if this Hilary H. Kendricks is a male or female or any info about him/her?

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