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l‘'aiU|iii<*r. and Culpeper Comities. He made :>0c an hour working for the Mate building roads, and worked part time f^r the editor of the Mine Ridge < imde, a forerunner of our ow n Itap pahannock news.
He liuilt has home in Blacksburg from t he top t wo stories of old mist er Jenkins tavern located on Main Street. Having $<>0.<Kl for that part of the building, lie tore it down and started his home from the materials. The first floor of t his historic building houses Ruby Jen kins'museum.
Before ( 'larence worked for the Viscos Plant in I 'ront Royal, the colored people of Blacksburg weren't allowed to have telephones. The men employed at the plant needed to contact their foremen. however, and this is\ how telephones were brought to the community,, he explained.
When Clarence was a young man, the people of Blacksburg worked mostly for white people. They owned their homes, but sharecropped for men who owned large amounts of land.
"I think the integralion is a wonderful thinyr for the black man. (lave him the opixjrtunity fora better every - thiiijr," ( larence said.
( larence I fear my died on September !, 19X1, but he is not forgotten. Many will remember seeing him mowing the lawn of the f irst Baptist Church where lie was deacon, puttering around the yard of his home, or taking pictures with his polaroid camera. He once said, “I’ve always treated everybody with manners and respect." This is how he lived his life and this is how he is remembered.
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