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FROM KANSAS TO TEXAS
About 1900
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... have been an ordeal to have to listen to our discourds. She with her sister, Miss Graves Dewees, now live in the Peterson Addition. I am very grateful to them for their kindness to Lee & I when we were worthless Greenhorn Country Kids.
Lee & I were the rst of our family to join a church. Our mother leaned to the Methodist so after Lee & I strayed over to the Good Baptist, she joined the Methodist ...
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... church & took all the other kids along with her.
The Baptist at that time were using the church Bldg. now the Mexican Baptist church at Houston & Jefferson. The Bldg. was then located where the Assembly of God church is now located - Washington & Jefferson. The Bldg. was later moved to its present location.
The Baptist preacher when we rst attended church was named Rankin (tho I am not positive this is right). Anyway he was a stocky man with a real Beer Keg belly or Fallen chest. He wore jet black heavy suits, high celloid collars, long swallow tailed coat. When he started his sermon he would stand at one end of the pulpit & shout ...