Thanks, Dan for this Candy Factory research and story. >From: DPhill4502 <DPhill4502@aol.com> >Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 23:17:18 EDT >To: crilley@eramp.net >Subject: corrected Candy article > >This article has correct spelling. >Please disregard the one in the email where you were CC: copied > >Thanks, > >Dan > >Mrs. Martha P. Cheatham, the former Martha Pate and daughter of Robert Jesse >Pate, Sr. and Myrtis Elna Phillips, writes about the Butler Candy Factory. > > My father, Robert Jesse Pate, Sr., closed his grocery store in Phenix City, >AL and moved us to Butler, GA in 1923 when I was 5 years old. [He] opened a >candy factory and hired a candy maker named Bill Baggett; salesman traveled >all over central and south Georgia and took orders. He made all kinds of >candy. [We] called the bar like Baby Ruth, "Plow Boy". > > When banks went busted in 1929, the Candy Factory and family, including his >sister's son, Douglas Stringfellow (son of Brooks and Ola Pate Stringfellow), >moved to Moultrie, GA. Aunt Ola took the flu and died from it, so Daddy took >her young son, Douglas into our home. I understand her son Jeff went to South >Georgia. > > Business fell off so we moved into a small place in Funston, GA (from >Moultrie) where my sister Myranelle was born. Mother and Daddy made a little >candy (no longer had help). The candy business was no good during the >depression, so Daddy moved to Eelbeck, GA where the business did not do good. >So we closed the candy factory and moved to Kingsboro, 4 miles south of >Hamilton, GA in Harris County. Daddy ran the Eelbeck Milling Company grist >mill and also farmed and had a grocery store. > > Virginia Crilley 4500 Kenny Lane Waco TX 76710 (254)772-5390 Subscribe to RUFFIN mailing list: Ruffin-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Subscribe to CRILLEY mailing list: Crilley-L-Request@Rootsweb.com Homepages: http://www.eramp.net/~crilley Ruffin homepage: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/6276 Taylor Co USGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~gataylor/gataylor.htm