First, I know the following is a lot of information, but I feel in order to know me, you need to understand my background.  I was not raised with a silver spoon in my mouth.  I have worked for everything I have, and it has not been easy.  Common misconception people have is,  because I am a small business owner, I am well off or wealthy, and thats not the case.  I feel what has made me, and will continue to define me is my business sense, and tenacity. I have always planned for the future and worked my plan to attain good results.  

Samuel G. Cleaver

 Born in 1969 Beeville, TX. 

I reasently had my first 39^th birthday.  I look forward to many more.

My father, Samuel E. Cleaver was born in 1909.  He served in WWII, and was awarded the Purple Heart.  He passed away in 1972 when I was three years old.  My mother, Pamela J. Cleaver about 25 years younger than my father, had never budgeted or balanced a checkbook.  She had to raise me and my two older sisters by herself.  We were poor, and lived without running water and without electricity durring many parts of my childhood.  When I was eight we started moving around Texas, to Galvestion and Austin.  When I was nine we moved to Grand Bay, Al. near one of my aunts.  We only lived there a year and moved again, and again, and again. 

When I was twelve my mother lost custody of me and I was made a ward of the state of Alabama and placed into foster care.  I lived at a place in Selma, Al. called “The Alabama Seriffs Boys and Girls Ranch”.  I went from being a loner to having about sixty brothers over-night.  Please understand that this was a foster home, and not a ‘juvie’ home or anything like that.  It was my understanding if you had a record, you were not allowed to be placed there.  There were six houses with about 10 boys at each house, with each house having a set of houes parrents (Mom and Pop).  We farmed and ranched over 250 acres.  It was beautiful land, and we worked it well.  I grew up hunting, fishing on two beautiful lakes, and training horses.  I was always considered one of the ‘good boys’ because, for the most part, I stayed out of trouble.  I graduated high school from Southside High School in Selma, Al.

I went to and graduated from The University of Alabama.  I worked full time for most of the time I was in School, I was the Credit Manager for a retail store and manager in training.  In the middle of school, I entered the Navy Reserves as a corpsman and completed my training and designation as 8404.  This meant that I had the training to go with the Marines, and treat injuries in the field. 

After I graduated, I moved to Pensacola and started working in Restaurant Management.  In 2000 while working with a large retail store, my soon to be wife (Liz) and I opened our first Hair salon, the Cutting Point Inc.  This was my 2ed venture into enterpernurship, having started a couple of T-shirt company’s years earlier.  We later opened our second store in Pace, and after my daughter Alana was born we moved here, to Pace, Fl.