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If I couldn’t talk I’d bust

My family was Lutherans in the old days, but there ain’t no Lutheran church here and we are all mixed up; we go to different churches.

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

From the 1927 divorce case filed by James R. Seawall against Dorothy Elizabeth Seawall in Knox County Fourth Circuit Court, Knoxville, TN.

It was in the summer of 1897 that I heard of an outdoor revival meeting and decided to attend for two or three days.

Lelia Naylor Morris wrote about 1500 hymns in all, over a 37 year period. Her best known song can still be found in hymnals today.

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