Grandpa & Grandma: "Without Them There Would Be No Us"

By James Scott

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Mar 29, 2023
• ISBN: 9781664294783

James Scott

James Scott was born in Boston and grew up in upstate New York. He holds a BA from Middlebury College and an MFA from Emerson College. His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, One Story, American Short Fiction, and other publications. He lives in western Massachusetts with his wife and dog. The Kept is his first novel.

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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

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"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

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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