Download or read book The Crepe Myrtle written by Charles B. Packard and published by Author House. This book was released on 2009-11-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a family story which traces the lives of two families Packards and the Fosters. The Packards left England in 1638, settled through out New England, and produced a Mississippi Steamboat Capt.- Charles H. Packard. The Fosters fought the British in Old Charles Towne, S. Carolina, in 1775-1778 and were part of the Old Three Hundred who settled in Texas in 1822.