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having prayer meeting among themselves at every service
until the pastor and Brother W. H. Wynn did arrive. The following were
added to the church during Brother Gibson’s pastorate by baptism:
California and Caldonia Morris, W. A. Barker, Willie Roe, Rufus Roe,
Annie Roe, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Barnard, Octa Barnard,
Willie Harrison, Carl Wilson, Ruby Wilson, Arthur Day, Addie McIlhaney,
Wade and Ellen Graves, Tom [Thomas
Harrison "Tom"] Boyd, Minnie [Minnie
Clementine] Boyd, Vera
Kerby, Vanie Dowis, Carrie Bennett, Robert Allison, Cicero Douglas, Jack
Edwards, Arthur Sing, Dena Jordan, Jessie [Jessie
Elizabeth] Foster, and Clara Hickerson.
The church agreed to cooperate with the Association upon hiring a
missionary for the county.
A. N. Porter -- April, 1905 - September,
1906
Brother [Asa Newton] Porter was born in Kay County, Kentucy in 1874 and was educated
in Clinton College and Baylor University. He was converted and joined the
Baptist Church, and in a short time he felt the call to preach. Then he
was elected as pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, San Antonio, they
called for his ordination. He was ordained by his home church.
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