Cressie Thornton Garvin Sr.
Owner of Garden Store
Notes:
• Son of William S. and Leola Garvin - 1900 US Census
• Married Roselle Burns Wall (born Aug 6, 1897 in Monrovia, Alabama) on March 1, 1919 in Madison County, Alabama - RootsWeb
• Father of:
1. Doris Burns Garvin b: 30 APR 1923 in Alabama
2. Mary Willie Garvin b: 1 DEC 1925 in Alabama
3. Cressie Thornton Garvin, Jr. - RootsWeb
• C. T. opened a garden store in 1934. Over the years the store moved up and down Holmes Avenue Before settling at its current location 2215 Holmes Ave., in 1988.
"The store came about in the 1930s while Cressie Thornton Garvin Sr. was still selling sausage and bologna, his original business.
Across the street from his business on Mitchell Drive was a cotton gin. C. T. Garvin Sr., bought cotton hulls from the gin, ground them up and sold them as feed.
By 1934, while most Americans were still suffering from the Depression, C.T. Garvin Sr. opened his new business."
"C.T. Garvin Jr., better known as Thornton, and his wife, Shirley, operated the store in its final years of family ownership."
The business was purchased by Monica Clark in September of 2008. There are 4.5 acres at that site. - Marshall
Related Links:
| Nickname: | C. T. |
| Born: | November 15, 1895, Alabama |
| Died: | March 5, 1981, Huntsville, Alabama |
Notes:
• Son of William S. and Leola Garvin - 1900 US Census
• Married Roselle Burns Wall (born Aug 6, 1897 in Monrovia, Alabama) on March 1, 1919 in Madison County, Alabama - RootsWeb
• Father of:
1. Doris Burns Garvin b: 30 APR 1923 in Alabama
2. Mary Willie Garvin b: 1 DEC 1925 in Alabama
3. Cressie Thornton Garvin, Jr. - RootsWeb
• C. T. opened a garden store in 1934. Over the years the store moved up and down Holmes Avenue Before settling at its current location 2215 Holmes Ave., in 1988.
"The store came about in the 1930s while Cressie Thornton Garvin Sr. was still selling sausage and bologna, his original business.
Across the street from his business on Mitchell Drive was a cotton gin. C. T. Garvin Sr., bought cotton hulls from the gin, ground them up and sold them as feed.
By 1934, while most Americans were still suffering from the Depression, C.T. Garvin Sr. opened his new business."
"C.T. Garvin Jr., better known as Thornton, and his wife, Shirley, operated the store in its final years of family ownership."
The business was purchased by Monica Clark in September of 2008. There are 4.5 acres at that site. - Marshall
Related Links:
• 1900 US Census - As viewed through an Ancestry.com paid subscription
• Marshall - Article titled "The city's original garden store no longer belongs to the Garvin family" by Mike Marshall, in The Huntsville Times.
• Rankin - Garvin family information.
• RootsWeb - Page created by Robert J. Maplesden. (Originally found at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:586411&id=I4260.)