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Category: Preachers

The Moon Ghost

Every night it would come, causing many to call it the Moon Ghost, after a similar ghost that was haunting a nearby house owned by a Mr. Moon.

April 25, 2019 Georgia / Preachers

Was I what you would call a pioneer? No, there were then old settlers

I sought and received the forgiveness of my sins in August 1861, at a camp meeting at Bird’s Chapel, in Dade County, Georgia.

October 8, 2018 Maryland / Preachers

The boyhood attraction was there for a higher life

John Gardner Murray (1857-1929) rose to the heights of the Episcopal Church on the national level, becoming the first elected Presiding Bishop in 1926.

February 20, 2018 Evangelists / Kentucky / Preachers

He wanted people who ate at his house to have what they wanted

Two Methodist preachers came to pass Sunday at the home of Noble, [and they] insisted that all the cooking be done on Saturday for Sunday.

Watauga River in eastern Tennessee, at the site of the Watauga settlement

May 3, 2017 Baptists / Houses of worship / Preachers / Tennessee

He poured out his soul in melting exhortations to a devoted people

Historians consider Buffalo Ridge Baptist Church, originally 8 miles N of Jonesborough, the first organized church body in Tennessee territory.

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