And our poor heart knew its bitterest sorrow humanly speaking. We place the broad mantle of charity and love over the the terrible memories of those days, and forbear to distress the reader with a full account, even if we could give it, of the terrible parting, the awful loneliness and the loss of a wife and our new-born babe, all in one day, that will live in painful memory so long as we shall live and know anything. We decided that there were too many painful memories for us to continue to reside there. So in the spring of 1930, we came to Lafayette and bought of John Bennett Freeman a half-interest in the Times and have resided here since that time. We pursued our journey southward until we came to Mt. Tabor Baptist church where a funeral service was to be held for Big Walter Chambers, whom we had known for many years.
Mt. Tabor is our old home church.
It was organized in the year 1836 with 24 charter members. Haynie and Wiseman were two of the men through whom the writer traced his baptismal line in last week s paper. Deacons William Martin, John A. Johnson, Thomas Taylor and Abel Gregory had part in the formation of the new church. Abel Gregory was the son of Jeremiah, his brother, Major Gregory, having been the writer s great-grandfather. Mt. Tabor was named for the Mt Tabor of the bible.