This seventh volume celebrates the spiritual heritage of Appalachia, featuring sections on ministers and church members, from Baptists to Methodists to Pentecostals to Presbyterians, as well as revivals, baptisms, shaped-note and gospel singing, faith healing, camp meetings, foot washing, and snake handling.
Table of Contents:
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS
Baptists
BEN COOK, SOUTHERN BAPTIST
BLY OWENS, SOUTHERN BAPTIST
JOE BISHOP, SOUTHERN BAPTIST
HOWARD SOUTHARDS, INDEPENDENT BAPTIST
HOWARD PARHAM, PRIMITIVE BAPTIST
LYSTRA PRIMITIVE BAPTIST CHURCH
CLYDE NATIONS, JR., TED LANEY and CLYDE NATIONS, SR., FREE WILL BAPTISTS
SELMA MOSELY, BLACK BAPTIST
BEULAH PERRY, BLACK BAPTIST
Catholics
LINA DAVIS, ROMAN CATHOLIC
Church of Christ
WAYNE RAWLINGS, CHURCH OF CHRIST
Episcopalians
RUFUS MORGAN, EPISCOPALIAN
Jehovah's Witnesses
ERNEST CLARK, RUTH STOCKTON and REPPIE JONES, JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
Methodists
E. L. ADAMS, METHODIST
JULIE MCCLURE, METHODIST
CONLEY HENRY, METHODIST
LEONARD VISSAGE, METHODIST
E. C. PRESLEY, METHODIST
Pentecostals
RAY DRYMAN, CHURCH OF GOD
TOLIVER VINSON, CHURCH OF GOD
GRANNY REED, CHURCH OF GOD
JAKE QUILLIAMS, CHURCH OF GOD
CHARLES LEE, FIRE BAPTIZED HOLINESS CHURCH
Presbyterians
L. B. GIBBS, PRESBYTERIAN
CLYDE HICKS,
PRESBYTERIAN
SID MCCARTY, PRESBYTERIAN
The Camp Meeting
LOUDSVILLE METHODIST CAMPGROUND
CULLASAJA ASSEMBLY OF GOD CAMPMEETING AND CAMPGROUND
THE TRADITION OF SHAPED-NOTE MUSIC
SINGERS OF SHAPED-NoTE MUSIC
CHRISTIAN HARMONY
RICHARD MOSS CHRISTIAN HARMONY
QUAY SMATHERS
"I LOVE TO SING . . ."
GOSPEL SHAPED NOTE MUSIC
JIM RABY
HENRY FOUNTAIN
AUNT ADDIE NORTON
LONNIE SMITH
HORACE PAGE
HYMAN BROWN
ESCO PITTS
ERNEST WAITS
FERD WAITS
WILBUR MANEY
BAPTISM
FOOT WASHING
THE PEOPLE WHO TAKE UP SERPENTS
A Church of God
Dinner on the Grounds
Sunday Night