The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-07-05
MoSHEIM

Here we are, and it has been q
long time since we had a word Il
say; and, too, the Editor thought W.
were mad. Bless you, we haven
been mad in twenty years. We have
learned to leave that to the Other
fellow. No, there will always be 8
warm spot in our heart for W. R. L
and his Sun. We were just tired anC
feel now bit rested; we come bach
little older and we hope little
wiser.
1t happens sometimes we stay
round home little too long and ge'
a bit hungry, then it dawns upon u:
that we had better go visiting, 81
to the country we HE. This will an
swer for an excuse for our being with
the good people Of Cross Anchor
last Sunday. We had the pleasure
of meeting that prince of good fel
lows, Rev. W. A. Brown as we'll as
breaking bread with those incompar-
able hosts, Brothers W. C. Davis and
his son, T. E. R. Davis, besides meet
ing other of the good people Of the
vicinity.
In this neighborhood is a cemetery
more than a hunder years old and
the graves are of much interest to
the antiquarians. Perhaps the first
persons buried there are the pro-
genitors of the Gass generation. We
will go on the supposition that James
and Nellie G. Gass were the first
buried there. They were born and
morried in Ireland and emigrated to
this country before the Revolution
airy war. She died in 1911.
They brought with them an old
chest made Of Ignite, wood (oak)
which is in the first stages of being
transformed into coal. In the ages
long past there was a basin in Ire
land in which were growing forests
of oak. These were submerger and
by and by (which means millions of
years. there was formed earth and
soil. In this grew a forest of fir,
which very much later was also sub
merged by the sea and also covered
by the detritus washed down from
higher land; and now this Ignite is
found from Is to 40 feet under the
surface. This same thing is occurr-
ing in the bottom of Reel-Foot lake,
an earthquake formation of 1912,
here in Tennessee.) A piece of this
chest of Ignite was given to Prof.
T. E. r. Davis, who gave some of it
to us, with the story of its origin.
Elder w. c. Davis, who entertain
ed us Hospitality at his home, led US
INTO the beginnings of the history of
Mt. Pleasant C. P. Church. Rev.
isaac S. Bonham was it's first pastor.
The eldership has escaped us. Thos.
lane, father of your fellow towns
nan, VIM. Lane, and. all the many
lanes that are familiar to the older
PEOPLE Whereabouts, was converted at
cross Anchor Church. Rev. j. P.
Ioltsinger, well known to some of
is, was once its pastor, and is here
'uried. A stately monument has
'een erected to his memory by his
omrades in arms of the First Ten
lessee U. S. Cavalry.
Church people "did things" back
here in the days of the founding of
his church at "Gass' Meeting
louise" little is known of this
1eeting House. Eighty years is a
ing time and the memory of man
frequently runneth to the contrary"
o oblivion has engulfed this, and we
ave to guess it,
But they did things up there in ear
est. In looking over the session
linutes we were surprised, and not
little amused, to note a church
'ial-the names of the parties have
one from our minds, and we are
lad of it-but these parties were
larged with, tried and expelled for
lin gand swearing. Many other in
resting times might be culled from
lis old Record Book, which dates
ack to 1886, and the date of the
of the church.