The Crepe Myrtle

This is a family story which traces the lives of two families – Packards and the Fosters.  The Packards left England in 1638, settled through out New England, and produced a Mississippi Steamboat Capt.- Charles H. Packard.  The Fosters fought the British in Old Charles Towne, S. Carolina, in 1775-1778 and were part of the Old Three Hundred who settled in Texas in 1822.