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COME ALONG, MY FRIEND...
You are about to be introduced to a mother, a Christian and an entrepreneur. She was illiterate but she climbed a mountain like no other. Somehow, some what she knew she would make it. She went two or four times a week at the Charleston City Market to sell produce for fer father. She has a way with people. She knew how to talk to and entice anyone into buying the produce. The small farmers of James Island started asking her to sell for them instead of them coming to the Market and selling for themselves. And that is when her legacy began in 1954.
(Exerts from "Godly Woman Entrepreneur, Mother: The Life of Virginia S. Smalls, written by Rosa M. Chisolm)
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In November 1984, her husband John Smalls suffered a stroke. It was then Virginia made the decision to pass the business on to her kids, to care for her ill spouse.
In February 2013, Virginia went to walk with the Lord. Her legacy is the foundation we all now stand on.
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