Willie McDonald

Scope and Contents Letter talks about D. S. Warner and B. E. Warren among others going to Spring Hill, a town near Meridian, MS, in 1889. There, the gospel group was threatened by a mob. However, some of the mob attending services with CHOG and ended up converted. W. B. Moffet is a name listed as a converted mob member, along with his family. The Moffet family became the "foundation" of the Shady Grove Church. After the Warner group left, prayer meetings were held in private homes, and three churches were...

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...