still like the good sense and a set of nice, simpkins wrote. but his father achieved by indirection, stone pursued openly and effective enemies. characteristics of pollock and stone and simpkins is no wonder provide context for a defining event in the lives of will and strom thurmond. in the 1920s when strom was teaching at the local high school, a situation develop inside the household, i went to one of the acts of wild folly. it was a 16-year-old african-american girl named carrie butler. in october 1925, butler gave birth to a daughter who named as they may. six months later come to sister took with her to pennsylvania where she was living with her husband. she passed the channel to another sister, mary washington, who raised me as a robe. not to she learned the identity of her actual mother and told three years later she met her father, strom thurmond and his law office just off the town square in nashville. as he made his birth with an abrupt occupational change for thurmond. he had been a schoolteacher in ashfield and the paper and it jus