I remember a Brother Babb, who held a meeting here years ago. He came from Missouri, chewed tobacco, and had four handsome sons, all Christian ministers. Another's name was Hopkins. Then there was a Brother Roll, now pastor at Coldwater. This is all I seem to remember.
History is events brought about mostly by people.
So far we have just talked about preachers. Without preachers, churches soon become things of the past, but without laymen there would be no churches. As I look back into the past, some of the faces and forms that I can see almost as plainly as though they were with us today are the J.E. Wrights, the Cliff Woods, the T.R. Berrys, the Howard Stouts, the Tom DeJarnetts, the D. Fishers, the Ridges, the George Browns, the Sam Hackneys, the Frank Evans, the Everett Chances, Mrs. Bell Helfer, Mrs. Zellikin and John Ruiter. Some of the young folk at the time I remember were Harold, Ernest and Prowell Wood, Hattie Booth, Hattie England, George Brown, Cecil and Flake Fisher, George Kennedy, Madaline Berry, Bessie Bell, Frank Stout, Erma Fox, Grant and Lucien Wright, Magel and Blanche Wright, Ura Roderick, Hazel Ferrin, Edna Smith and Bea Chambers. It seems to me that when there has been no young people's organization, we've lagged behind.