Mr. Clarence E. Crocker Work Biography
Mr. Clarence Crocker, a life long Glendale resident,
has furnished us much interesting information to use
on this website. We have asked Mr. Crocker to tell
our readers a brief story about his work life and he
has been kind enough to furnish the following.
Hi, since I have furnished some
material to Mrs. Teaster for this web site, let me
introduce myself by telling you that my name is
Clarence E. Crocker and that I live just outside the
city of Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Though my paternal grandfather and father were born in
the Glendale Mill village in the 1800s, I was born on
a small farm where I have lived most of my life
located just about a mile from the Mill. My great
grandfather, grandfather, father, uncles, aunts and
brothers have all worked at Glendale Mills. I joined
Glendale Mills in 1948 as Personnel Consultant/General
Manager of the mill store and it’s concessions later
taking supervision of the machine shop and engineering
department. Information about my maternal grandparents
is shown at the McCombs
Family.
Before joining the workforce of Glendale mills, I was
Glendale Postmaster. I served some 10 years as a
Trustee of the Glendale school district and two years
on the Spartanburg County Board of Education.
I served some 14 years as Treasurer and Deacon of the
Glendale Baptist Church where I taught S.S. classes
for some 16 years. When I left Glendale Mills in 1958,
feeling the call, I began to prepare for the Ministry
which I entered in 1962. After preaching the Gospel of
Christ for some 37 years, I went into full retirement
about 2000. (Click on
this link to read about Mr. Crocker's entry into the
ministry.)
Today, I am enjoying the “golden years” of life,
watching the sun slowly set, trying to put into print
some memories for my family and friends, taking care
of my wife’s flower gardens consisting of dozens of
roses, rhododendrons, azaleas, dogwoods, a water
fountain and a small fish pond. I am also raising a
garden, “ahem” consisting of three tomato
plants, two cantaloupe plants and two cucumber hills.
God had blessed me with a rich and full life for which
I am eternally grateful.
Blessings!
We have found that many visitors to
the website are using the information to do research
on their family's history. Recently, Mr. David Brown
found lots of information in one of Rev. Crockers
stories about his Glendale ancestors. He sent
Rev. Crocker a very nice Thank You message about what
he had discovered. We would like to share it with our
readers as an example of the the impact of Rev.
Crocker's stories. This was what we hoped to
accomplish when we started the Glendale website.You
can read Mr. Brown's note at Thank
You.
The following web pages are based on the information that
Mr. Crocker has given us.
More on the Story Of Glendale
and its History
Cemeteries
Francis Marion Coates
Family
Crocker Family
Flowers
Glendale School
More on the Trolley
Ruritan Club
Street Names
Christmas Gift Bags
Fourth of July Celebration
McComb Family
Stores and Commercial Sites
Glendale Mill Store
Mr. Elbert Pettit, Store
Manager
Origin and Roots of the Crocker
Family
Sports and Recreation at
Glendale
Bivingsville/Glendale
Medical Providers and Their Facilities
Law Enforcement
The
Hottel Trio
John Taylor Varner, Sr. Family
John Taylor Jr. Family
Superintendents of the
Bivingsville/Glendale Mills
Presidents of the
Bivingsville/Glendale Mills
The Bivingsville and Glendale
Post Offices
Some Supervisors of the
Glendale Mills
Glendale Mills Office
Personnel
John Walters Nichols -Steam
Engine Operator
William Elmer Willis - Textile
Worker, Brick Mason, Taxidermist
Amos Wilburn Pruitt Family
Fire Protection in Glendale
John Taylor Jr.
Family
Barbers and Barber Shops in
Glendale
Lewis Perry Lyda Family
Ernest F. Alley Family
Glendale Merchants - From the early
1900's to the 1970's
Elbert L. Pierce Family
Volunteers at
Christmas
Jackson T. Key Family
W.D. Reaves Lunch Room
Glendale Fast Food and
Recreation
Clyde Quinn Family (Quinn
Print Shop)
John Holden Hunter Family
S. Frank Sutton Family
A Terrible Tragedy - Six Glendale
Youths Killed in a Car Wreck
Willie Tunstall
A. Edgar Fowler
H. F. Gault Family
Alonzo Worth Gault Family
Newspaper Social
Column about Glendale from February 26, 1931
Newspaper Social and Church
News Column about Glendale from July, 1914
Newspaper Social Column and
School News from April, 1915
Joe J. Fowler Family
Elmond Earl Crocker and
Family
Glendale Household
Listing
Thomas J. Morris - 1908
The Glendale Mill Office Robbery
William Simpson Morris Sr.
Family
Spartanburg Radio and the Palmetto
Ramblers
The Other Glendale Bridge
Paving the Glendale - Clifton Road
Glendale
Swimming Pool
Earthquake Ethel's Roadhouse
Jazz Band
Aaron Crossley Family
1934 Newspaper
Article about the Glendale School
Glendale's Dams, Ponds and Bridges
List of Preachers at
Glendale Wesleyan Church
Flooding at Glendale
List of Preachers at the
Glendale Baptist Church
The Robert Holder Family
Selling the Houses
An Analyses of the 1860 Census
for Bivingville
A Survey of the Mill
Company Property in 1898
Dr. George P. Hilton
Joshua Hilton, Clifton Mill
Superintendent
An Analyses of the 1900
Glendale Census
An Analyses of the 1920 Census
Company Land Ownership and
Transfer
Mill Land Ownership and Deeds
1959 Platt of Company
Property
Columbus Hawkins "Hawk" Lyda
Gleanings from the 1910
Glendale Census
Sale of Mill Assets
More Mill Superintendents
William A. Harper
A Child Remembers
Commodore P. Lindsey
200 Year old Clock
Clarence Crocker and the
Ministry
Rev. Will Rogers
Jesse L. Murph, Policeman
Claude H. Lockman, Boss Weaver
Will Hames, Boss Weaver
More Bivingsville/Glendale
Civil War Patriots
Growing Up on a Farm in
Glendale
Glendale Cemetery Index Project
Glendale Cemetery Index -
Segment No.1
Glendale Cemetery Index -
Segment No. 2
Glendale Cemetery Index -
Segment No. 3
Glendale Cemetery
Index - Segment No. 4
Excerpts from the 1940 Glendale
Census
M.W. Walker, State Representative
Morgan Reaves - Injury fatal to
Civil War Veteran
James Thomas Family and Descendants
Rhinehart's Garage
Rev. James D. Bailey
Rev. Curtis P. Holland
Paul Victor Parker
Index of Glendale's 1940
Black Households
William B. Rush and Family
Jesse F. Brown and Family
Albert Brown and Family
William David McCombs
Family
John Calvin and Lucretia
McCombs Thompson Family
Miner and Pearl Riddle Family
George Bryson McCombs
Family
Victor and Myrtle Warren Family
James Elbert Allen Family
Eddie F. Brown and his
Descendants
The Harry and
Callie McCombs Smith Family
Clifton Mills Tumbles Down
More
on the McComb Family
Rev.
Charles Sims
General Witt Bradley
Rev. Jesse B. Lindley and Family
Joseph Kelib White Family
D. B. Thomas Family
The Rev. John S. Ezell Family
The Zimmerman Family
The Bagwell Brothers
The Bagwell Brothers - Part
2
The Josiah Bagwell
Family
Brady Hampton Fowler
D. B. Mabry
William R. Nichols
Bobo Rogers
John Williams
Walter Dixon Reaves
Elbert J. Black
Hillard Fowler
Zeb Ammons
The Rev. Boyce Coates
Reece Brothers -
Rev. William Troy Reece and Rev. David Reece
The Family and Descendants of
Jack Reece
Rev. William D. Smart
Thomas Leroy Burgess
Lloyd Fisher
Rev. Hilliard Haynes
The Murder of Mr. and Mrs. J.
L. Hughes
Thomas Gilmer (Gilmore)
PFC Roy Fowler
Benjamin F. Dunagin
William McKinney Family and
Descendants
The Family and Descendants of John
R. Cash
The Family and Descendants of Uriah
(Euriah) Kirby
The Family of John P. Bishop
The Families of Walter
Sylvester and Whiteford Lindsey
The Family of James H. Millwood
The Family of William and Margaret
Murray
Judson Reel
Family of Frank P. and Louise
Greer Bates
Family of George and Elsie Mittag
Family of J.M. and Alice Padgett
Family of Hugh and Elizabeth Holt
Family of Dillard Brownlow and
Polly Carswell Massey
River Front Beach Park
Opened at Clifton
Family of Clyde and Ida Deaton
Family of Walter F. and Delilah
Lominac Hutchings
Family of Henry and Annie Ward
The Bivingsville Bone Yard
Family Of Joel and Lillie Harris
Family of James and Susan
Pruitt
Family of David H. and Bonnie
Anders
Family of William Thomas, Sr.
and Pauline George Rothrock
Family of Edward and Minnie Walden
Family of Rufus and Mary Porter
The Grizzle Family
Family of Forest and Ethel Gibson
Family of Franklin and Grace
Blanton
The Sentell Family
Family of James and Julia Hyder
Family of Zackie and Katie
Blackwell
Family of Elijah and Mary Howell
The Mason Families
The Coates Family
Family of Lester J. and Lettie S.
Edgens
Families of Ben and Nathan Simmons
Family of Lawrence and Lottie Carter
Family of Jessie and Alder Gosnell
The Gossett Family
The Cartee Family
The Boyce and Hattie Bagwell
Family
The Willie S. and Mary C. Strange
Family
The Vance T. and Elizabeth McGraw
Family
The George R. and Nellie N. Burgess
Family
The Solesby Family
More on the Glendale Fisher Families
Other Glendale Gault Families
The Morgan Families
Glendale's Ogle Families
Glendale's Quinn Families
Glendale's Caston Families
The Alfred Monroe and Tallulah
Amanda Burnett Family
Other Glendale Nichols Families
The William and Mollie Medlock
Family
Glendale Photo Album - Part
4 - Sept., 2014
Glendale Photo Album - Part
5 - Oct. 2, 2014
The Leonard and Ora Dillard Family
The Family of Tillman and Vera
Sizemore
The Family of Will and Lottie
Dunaway
The Family of Jacob and Louisa
Pigler
The Family of Forest and Arabelle
Spurlin
The Family of Robert and Mary
Puckett
The Family of Charles and Ruby
Trombly
Glendale's Bogan
Families
Glendale's Freeman Families
Glendale's Keeter Families
Glendale's Harmon Families
Glendale Photo Album - Part 6
- Oct. 28, 2014
More Glendale Reaves Families
Veterans Buried in the Glendale
Community Cemetery
Glendale's Davis Families
More Glendale Crocker Families
Bivingsville/Glendale Lee Families
J.T. Ingle Family
Rev. Louie E. Hartley
Rev. Stafford Mills
Rev. Hollie E. Whitten
Bivingsville/Glendale Elder Families
George Pryor - Glendale Spinning Room
Supervisor
Glendale's Moore Families
Rev. Hilliard Haynes
Family of John and Elizabeth Brooks
Family of Arthur G. Mabry
This web site has been
started as a public service to share the story of
Glendale. See more information about
Mary and her Glendale connection at Mary McKinney Teaster.
