Grandpa & Grandma

James Scott

Description

A story to provide insight as to who we are and where we come from. A story about the Page-Paige family.
This is a book about a grandfather and grandmother. As a young couple, in a small town in Mississippi, they started a family that blossomed into beautiful people. Their bloodline grew and migrated across the country. Their story is shared with their offspring so they will know who they are and where they came from. This is a story about the Page-Paige family.

Sujets

• Historical
• Lettres et linguistique
• Biography
• Autobiography

Informations

• Publié par: WestBow Press
• Date de parution: 29 mars 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781664294783
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

GRANDPA & GRANDMA
“WITHOUT THEM THERE WOULD BE NO US”
JAMES SCOTT


 
Copyright © 2023 James Scott.
 
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ISBN: 978-1-6642-9479-0 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-6642-9502-5 (hc)
ISBN: 978-1-6642-9478-3 (e)
 
 
 
WestBow Press rev. date:  05/11/2023
CONTENTS
Preface
 
Dallas & Mozella Page
The McCadneys
Utica Institute
Page-Paige Property
Page vs Paige
Ida Mae Page-Scott
Arnetta Page-Pollard
John Sheridan Page, Sr.
Coloinus Page Sr.
Bluford Page
Bertha Paige
Lucious (LD) Paige
Ledora Paige-Surgeon
Dallas Paige Jr.
Earleen Paige-Jenkins
Alexander Paige
 
Conclusion
Treasured Photos
Photo Credits
Acknowledgments



“Learn from your family’s past, live in your family’s present, plan for your family’s future.”
James Scott

READER’S NOTICE
The information in this book is correct to the author’s and contributing writer’s best knowledge and belief. Efforts were made to correct all errors prior to publication. Any error not corrected is a state of uncertainty.
PREFACE
(CULTURE KEEPERS)
In 1992 a Librarian gave a presentation at the First National Conference of African American Librarians in Columbus, Ohio. The topic of the presentation was “Basic Rs of Culture: Responsibility, Research, Referral and Re-examination.” The summary of the presentation emphasized librarians as culture keepers. It stated: “The role of African American librarians, as Culture Keepers, requires constant vigilance in restoring and educating our people about our history, legacies, and heritage. This can be realized when African American librarians begin to be responsible for enlightening our people about our rich history; study and investigate our heritage through research; inform and direct our people with referrals, or where they can access information; and through teachers and educators who should re-examine our own knowledge and our collections to ensure we are providing the right kinds of resource materials.”
One may ask, what does a librarian’s speech have to do with Grandpa and Grandma. Furthermore, what do culture keepers have to do with families. To paraphrase some of the librarian’s presentation, culture keepers provide evidence of our great heritage. It provides the context for spirituality, family relationships and information that gives us integrity. It is the product of our history and history gives us an identity. Culture tells us who we are. It is a story of our people that shows us how and why there are similarities in us. Similarities such as our physical features, the way we think, and the things we do. African Americans have too long been stripped of the knowledge of our history. Access to the past is access to our future. But how can we access the future if we don’t know the past.
My role, as author of this book, as a family member, and as a culture keeper, is to recapture our family history and rebuild positive information as it relates to our culture. We are robbed of our family heritage when we don’t know our own family history. As a culture keeper, it is my responsibility, as well as others, to research, share and preserve our family history.
This book is a story and history of a grandfather and grandmother. Well, the truth be told, it is about my grandpa and grandma.
The story begins in the late 1800s in a small town in Mississippi. As a young couple, they started a family that blossomed into beautiful people. Their bloodline grew and migrated across the country. To preserve our family history, this story was written to be shared with family members so they will know who they are and where they came from.
By the way, the librarian that presented the presentation was my late sister, Rev. Rosa Lee Scott Burnett. During that time, she was the Director of the Freeman Library at the State Technical Institute in Memphis, Tennessee. She was a family culture keeper and known to have an interest in researching our family history. If not for her demise in 2015, she would have been the author of a book like this.

Rev. Rosa Lee Scott-Burnett
The Family Culture Keeper Influencer

DALLAS & MOZELLA PAGE
This is a story of my grandparents, Dallas and Mozella Page. Throughout this narrative, I will refer to them as Mama and Papa Page.
Before I start with the story, there is a report regarding key historical events during the life of Dallas Page Sr. These events affected families across the country and abroad. This report was produced by “Family Search”, a nonprofit family history organization dedicated to connecting families across generations. The report findings were produced in a timeline that included the following:
In 1914 when Papa Page was 31 years old, “World War 1 (WWI) began when various treaties were invoked after the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo. It escalated to involve most of Europe, parts of Asia, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Its impact was felt throughout the world heavily impacting the world economy.”
At the age of 34, the Influenza Pandemic started. “It is unknown where the pandemic originated, but the virus spread rapidly throughout the world. Its spread was increased by troop movement at the end of WWI. It is estimated that the virus caused over 50 million deaths worldwide.”
When Papa Page was 46, “the Great Depression began with the October 1929 stock market crash in the United States. Its effects rippled out to affect most areas of the world. It was the longest and deepest economic decline of the twentieth century.”
At the age of 56, “World War II began in September of 1939. The war escalated to involve most of Europe, parts of Asia, and the Pacific, the United States and Canada. Even nations not directly involved were impacted by the events. By 1945, when the war ended, there were an estimated 60-80 million people killed.”
It is my belief that families struggled through these challenging times, but they gained strength as they lived their lives. Their strength is evident from their struggles, perseverance, resilience, and ingenuity that has been passed on to their children and their children’s children.

Dallas Mitchell Page Sr . was born to the late Frank and Idellia Page on April 7, 1883, near Utica, Mississippi in Hinds County. He was the third child born to this union with an older sister and brother ( Susie & Will Page ) and a younger sister & brother ( Leona & Bluford Page ). His older brother resided in the Utica area where he was born and his older sister resided in Jackson, Mississippi. His younger sister and brother moved to Los Angeles, California to seek a better life. He was awfully close to his siblings and always kept in touch with them. I believe he was especially close to his younger brother, Bluford, so close he chose to name one of his sons after him. In the early 1960s he took a train from Jackson, Mississippi to Los Angeles to visit his sister Leona and brother Bluford.

Some family members wondered if his family were slaves. He was born 18 years after the end of the civil war and lived to see the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Though he and his family were free citizens his family probably lived as sharecroppers.
Papa Page was a quiet and wise man. He was well known and respected throughout the Utica community. He was an active member of the family church, St. Peter Missionary Baptist Church, where he served as a senior deacon and superintendent of the church. Due to his popularity and service to the church, 20 years after his passing, the church added an Annex to the building and commissioned it to be named the “ Paige Annex .” Even though he spelled his name “Page” the Annex was named “Paige” still in his honor and honor of the Page family.
He was an active member of the Masonry Fraternity and believed in the basic purpose of the organization to make “better men out of good men.” He believed there is an emphasis placed on the individual man by strengthening his character, improving his moral and spiritual outlook, and broadening his mental horizons. He lived his life demonstrating these principles.

On January 13, 1910, he was united in holy matrimony to the love of his life, Mozella McCadney, and to this union eleven (11) children were born: Ida, Arnetta, John, Coloinus, Bluford, Bertha, Lucious, Ledora, Dallas, Earleen, and Alexander . They enjoyed 65 years of marriage before she passed away in 1975. After her passing, he would sit on the front porch of his house every day, hours at a time, watching the cars go by until he passed away in 1976, one year later. Mama Page was 85 years old when she passed, and Papa Page was 93 years old when he departed his earthly life.