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May 23, 2024 · According to Patricia, who wrote about her family’s property for Southern Living, her parents, Violet Margaret Sayre and Harvey Newton English, purchased the land with a veteran bonus...
Oct 6, 2020 · Jennifer Garner was born to her father, William John Garner, and her mother, Patricia Ann English. Her father worked as a chemical engineer and her mother was a stay-at-home mom, who later worked as an English professor at a community college.
- My Parents Buy A Farm in The 1930s
- Our Farm Has Rustic Beginnings
- Our Family Embraces Farm Life
- The Farm Is Passed Down Through The Generations
Even though it was the 1930s, $700 was not much to buy a farm that had a houseon it. My parents didn't even have a car, so when they heard about the land that was for sale, they hired someone to drive them to the property. The farm consisted of a two-room house and 20 acres—minus 1 acre at the heart of the property, which was a Native American ceme...
Thinking about what the farm did not have is easy. In the beginning, there was no electricity, running water, or indoor plumbing. Electricity was added in 1945, but we never had running water or indoor plumbing when I lived there. Thinking of what the farm did have, though, is far more beneficial. The land that could be cultivated was very rich, an...
Mother, along with her mother and three children, moved to the farm in 1936. Dad went to work in a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp some distance away. I think they made the move in October in what proved to be an extremely wet year. Mother and Grandmother managed to buy a horse and grow a garden. I was born in 1938. After that, Dad left the ...
My father died in the spring of 1962, and sometime after that, Mother sold the farm to my older brother James and his wife Helen. During the time that Mother and Dad owned the farm, they added about 35 acres by buying adjoining tax-title land. James built a barn and fenced the property, and he eventually sold the farm in 2008 to my brother Robert a...
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Jennifer Garner, who catapulted into stardom with her lead role on the television series Alias (2001), has come a long way from her birthplace of Houston, Texas. Raised in Charleston, West Virginia by her mother Patricia Ann (née English), a retired English teacher, and her father, Billy Jack Garner, a former chemical engineer, she is the ...
- April 17, 1972
May 11, 2024 · Growing up, Jennifer Garner’s mom didn’t have much. Patricia Ann Garner’s family lived on an old farm and she earned only a dollar a day babysitting. Despite her mom’s financial struggles, Garner says the woman was determined to change her fate with hard work and resilience.
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Her father, William John Garner, worked as a chemical engineer for Union Carbide, and her mother, Patricia Ann, was a homemaker and, later, an English teacher at a local college. She has an older sister, Melissa Wylie, and a younger sister, Susannah Carpenter.
