Monday, January 14, 2013

January 14, 1979, Sunday Aunt Estelle wrote

Cloudy, snow.  After a warm night, it is snowing this morning  We went to church with Jennings & Elizabeth.  Olinger church come over and  baptized a man & wife this eve.  I went down to Mrs. White's a few minutes late.   We missed church tonite. 


Footnote:  Jennings is her brother and Elizabeth is his wife and they live nearby.  Olinger is a small community about 5 miles away from Deep Springs.  The Deep Springs Baptist church had a baptismal inside the church - they believe in full immersion in water.  I am guessing the Olinger church didn't have such a facility.  I wonder where they baptised all the other believers.  Maybe in the river at Olinger.  I remember going to a "baptising" in the river at Dryden, near where Larry Flanary lived.   I think it is the same place that Larry's  small daughter drowned.   Now the bridge that passes over that river was dedicated to our great-grandfather, Dr. Daniel Sheffey Reasor and bears his name - thanks to the efforts of Stephen Reasor.     Mrs. White is a friend and neighbor.  Can't believe she missed church. 

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