On February 22, 1928, the mother ship moved great upon the earth and landed in Danville, Virginia and gave birth to a ‘Sun’, they named him Clarence Edward Smith, he was the fifth son of Louis and Mary Smith. He was born during the harsh Jim Crow laws of Segregation, which existed mainly in the Deep South. Blacks and Whites functioned separately, but were supposed to be equal. As a baby his mother called him ‘Put’ (which later became Pudden) for obvious reasons, it was a quality befitting, because he would begin to put people in their ‘right and proper place’s. He (young Clarence) was very athletic and was a great swimmer, it is reported that he saved his younger brother from drowning. Those who knew him compared his swimming skills to Johnny Weissmuller the Olympic gold medalist who played Tarzan the Ape man. He Clarence was an honest young man, truthful and greatly loved by all who encountered
On February 22, 1928, the mother ship moved great upon the earth and landed in Danville, Virginia and gave birth to a ‘Sun’, they named him Clarence Edward Smith, he was the fifth son of Louis and Mary Smith. He was born during the harsh Jim Crow laws of Segregation, which existed mainly in the Deep South. Blacks and Whites functioned separately, but were supposed to be equal. As a baby his mother called him ‘Put’ (which later became Pudden) for obvious reasons, it was a quality befitting, because he would begin to put people in their ‘right and proper place’s. He (young Clarence) was very athletic and was a great swimmer, it is reported that he saved his younger brother from drowning. Those who knew him compared his swimming skills to Johnny Weissmuller the Olympic gold medalist who played Tarzan the Ape man. He Clarence was an honest young man, truthful and greatly loved by all who encountered