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Notes for Eual Victor Hickman
My father worked as Maintenance Superintendent for Little Manufacturing Co. He was a musician and possessed an excellent voice. He sang bass with the Greenville Singers. He worked on a road crew in his early years as a cook. He worked for awhile with the county surveying for terraces to be built as a part of the soil conservation effort. He worked with James Wesley McClure traveling around to county sales buying hogs and Tennessee Walking Horses. They raised and sold a calf to put a ceiling in the bedroom of their house. Mother told me one time that, "Eual farmed a little, had hogs, registered Durocs, and didn't make any money."
He went to work for Butler Manufacturing Company and made friends with a Machinist named Draper from up north. Draper was the one that taught Dad the trade of machinists. Draper and Dad loved to fish and they went a lot. I can ever remember an early morning trip. I'm sure it was around 4:30 am when we where at the pond behind the house getting bait.
While working at Butler Dad made most of the production samples when the company received new shirt contracts. He invented a pocket maker as an attachment for the Singer Sewing machines that would fold the pocket automatically while sewing it on the shirt. He never received anything for his invention, but it was on the next new Singer Model they received at Butler. When Littles Manufacturing Company opened in Greenville, he went to work for them and worked there until he died in 1954. He died on a Sunday in a Greenville hospital from a heart attack.
John Wayne Hickman. Descendants of John Hickman.
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