W. S. Best

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A six page letter describing the history of the Alabama State Camp Meeting Association.

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A short letter by W. H. Smith describing the history of the church in Austinville, Alabama.

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Letter documents that CHOG began in Laurel, Mississippi in 1908 in a tent meeting. The first church building was West of Laurel, known as "The Pond." The location moved to newly purchased land in 1928, where the church was still meeting at the time of the letter (1949). Letter also mentions L.V. Strickland and his documtnation of CHOG in Mississippi.

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Letter gives credit to CHOG founding in Shaw to Byrd and Fannie Cole moving to Shaw from Alabama. There, the Coles held a revival meetingin July of 1931. The church then started a Sunday school and prayer meetings although the location moved. Services were held in the home of the Coles until a permanent church building could be built.

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A four page letter describing the history of the church in Townley, Alabama.

Scope and Contents Letter provides background information about CHOG in Mississippi. W. W. Bradley and Sammy Bozeman preach to the Spring Hill Community near Meridian. Members of a Protestant church were "ordered out" if they believed in holiness. These members built a building on borrowed land to worship there instead. Eventually, the letter mentions that the land owner took back the land (and with it the building), so the congregation moved to Pine Grove, remaining there for seveal years until a more...