Distributed Free Each Friday Since 2009 August 17, 2018 www.pcpatriot.com Locally Owned And Operated FOOTBALL IS BACK! Our Annual Cardinal & Gold Football Preview Section Is Inside This Week! School board chooses Bausell for road name By MIKE WILLIAMS Henry Avenue in Pulaski prior to his family's mov- The Patriot ing to Washington, D.C. Following Pearl Harbor, Bausell enlisted in the The Pulaski County School Board voted 5-0 Marine Corps. in 1941 at the age of 17. He was Tuesday evening to recommend that the roadway killed in 1944 from injuries he sustained in the bat- leading to the entrance of the new middle school be tle of Peleliu in the Pacific. named after the county's lone Medal of Honor win- Bausell earned the Medal of Honor for throwing ner. himself on a Japanese grenade in an effort to save The issue now moves to the Board of his fellow Marines. He died on a hospital ship three Supervisors, which has final say on what the road- days later. way will be named. The board's decision ended weeks of discussion Barbour's motion came after the board heard WEEKEND WEATHER and debate over what to name the road - debate that from four citizens urging the roadway be named arose after members of the Citizens for Education after Bausell, and a presentation by Dr. Paige Cash, SATURDAY SUNDAY proposed naming it "Citizens Way" in recognition Robinson District representative on the school Showers likely, with thunder- A chance of showers. Mostly of the citizen-led effort to pass a bond referendum board. storms also possible after noon. sunny, with a high near 82. to finance construction of the new, consolidated Dana Jackson of Fairlawn told the board that he Mostly cloudy, high near 81. Chance of precipitation is 40%. Pulaski County Middle School. has no problem seeing something at the new mid- Saturday Night - A chance of Sunday Night - A chance of Mike Barbour, Vice Chairman of the School dle school being named after the citizens group. showers and thunderstorms. showers before 2am. Mostly Board, made the motion to recommend to the However, he said naming the roadway to the Mostly cloudy, with a low cloudy, with a low around 65. supervisors the name of "Corp. Lewis Kenneth entrance of the school after Bausell would provide around 66. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Bausell Medal of Honor Way." an opportunity for students to learn about "this A native of Pulaski County, Bausell grew up on See NAME, page A2 Mayflower Christian Academy ready to launch into first year By DANIELLE REID The Patriot When a new ship is christened and launched, there is great excitement; but the captain and crew know there must be a "shake-down cruise" where the new ship's systems will be tested, tweaked and refined. Earlier this year, the Mayflower Christian Academy's director, Javier Mattos, and licensed teacher/mentor Ginny Hagee, along with the Mayflower Academy Board Members, announced - 2) and Ginny Kirk (grades 3 - 8) will be super- the inception of the new school. Their vision is to vised and mentored by Hagee, who will be greeting equip students for the future by providing a classi- students and conducting the daily opening assem- cal Christian education that promotes the study of bly. grammer, literature, logic and rhetoric - anchored in "Much thanks goes to Memorial Baptist Church Christ-centered knowledge. for agreeing to host the new Academy. They have Full-time quality teachers Jodi Farmer (grades K See MAYFLOWER, page A3 Page A2 - The Patriot - Friday, August 17, 2018 Name New school no Continued from page A1 county's only national hero." naming the road after veterans Jackson said to do so is the who were life-long residents of threat to Patton "only one correct solution in the county, law enforcement offi- making up for all the years of cers and first responders. ignorance and neglect that this Cash said she did her own county has showed by forgetting research on Bausell in addition to gravesite its only Medal of Honor recipi- what had been presented to the ent." board initially when it was first By SHARON HARDY trying to verify that Captain Jackson said naming the street suggested the road be named Special to The Patriot Henry Patton, who fought in the after Bausell would be akin to after him. Revolutionary War, is buried "pulling his name out of the trash Her findings made an impres- Many people have been asking there, but, there just isn't any and putting it back where it sion on her and she related what this question: what is to become documentation. belongs." she had learned to the sacrifices of the grave near the site of the In my research, I found there Jackson concluded by urging made in war by family members new Pulaski County Middle were actually three Henry county citizens to make sure of hers and by other veterans she School? And is it going to have Pattons. I can say it has been dif- "Pulaski County never forgets has come into contact with in her to be relocated now that con- ficult trying to distinguish Kenneth Bausell again." work at New River Community struction has begun? among the three. Captain Henry I have recently learned that it Patton was referred to as Henry E.W. Harless, Dallas Cox and Corp. Lewis Kenneth Bausell College. Al Davis followed Jackson in In the end, Cash said she didn't is not going to be moved and the Patton II and sometimes Henry voicing support for the naming of would help enlighten them. want the new middle school to be school board plans to upkeep the Jr. However, the third Henry the roadway after Bausell. Cash was the only school "dogged by controversy," and for area around the gravesite. Patton was also referred to as Cox told the school board that board member to speak about the the "sake of unity in Pulaski The inscription on the head- Henry Jr., which makes every- veterans from every war - from issue, noting she didn't make her County" she would vote "yes" on stone reads: "Henry Patton, thing that much more confusing. the French and Indian to present mind up on how she would vote naming the road after Bausell. V irginia, He was the day - are buried in Pulaski "until 10 this morning." However, Cash urged every- Capt., son of County. "That is because I am responsi- one in attendance Tuesday, who VA Thomas "As long as we remember ble to the people of the Robinson she said knows who Bausell was, Troops, Rev Patton, (veri- them, they never die," Cox said District - the people who elected to be prepared to explain to oth- War". I fied in in asking the board to name the me - and I wanted to talk to them ers in the community who don't have estimat- Chancery roadway after Bausell on behalf to see what they thought," Cash know who he was and why the ed that the Case #63 of all veterans in Pulaski County. stated. road is named after him. marker was John Floyd Davis noted that a Navy She continued that most of the "Don't assume they know or placed in vs Henry destroyer was named after people with whom she talked agree," Cash advised. 1934 or 1935 Patton). Bausell and a monument in "didn't know who Bausell was." "They'll ask and we need to be by the Thomas was Manilla in the Philippines bears Others, she said, made sugges- prepared to answer that question, Daughters of Captain his name. tions of people who lived in the tell his story and make sure that the American Henry Harless said young people county who had made contribu- street sign inspires the respect Revolution. Patton's today haven't had the chance to tions to the community's econo- and gratitude he deserves," she I was able to brother. grow up in a time in which they my and development such as added. find the orig- The first are taught to have respect for law C.E. Richardson, Joe Reed, inal War Henry Patton officers and the military, and Eddie Sutphin and others. Department The inscription on the headstone was known naming the road after Bausell Some, she added, suggested application reads: "Henry Patton, Virginia, as "senior." for the head- Capt., VA Troops, Rev War." He was born stone that in Ireland was submitted on June 11, 1934 around 1720. It is unknown by Mrs. R. H. Wolling of exactly when he came to Pulaski. The headstone was America, but, the first record of shipped on September 18, 1934. Henry Patton Sr. is in Augusta There has been conflicting evi- County, Virginia on September dence through the years as to 18, 1747, when he was named a The Patriot who is actually buried in this juryman (Augusta Co Order Bk 808-3949 lone grave along the fence line of 1, pg 303, Chronicles of the U.S. Route 11(Lee Highway) Scotch-Irish Settlement in www.pcpatriot.com between Pulaski and Dublin. Virginia, Vol 1). The grave was originally located He was thought to be a close in the area where the grassy relative to Colonel James Patton median section is across from (who was killed by Indians in Walter's Trailer Park and above 1755 at Draper's Meadow). In Cougar Xpress. It was moved the will of Colonel James Patton, when the road expanded to four- dated 1750, he mentions that lanes in the 1950s.