Thanks for that Bobbye, I'll look for those songs on the internet, Google search. Seems to me I read something about the middle of the road marriage custom before. Katie >From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [MOYERS] More on Prim. Baptist, plus German Baptists >Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 21:40:25 EDT > >Katie, > >Mother's song book was published in 1845. I imagine not to many people in >the U.S. were able to read prior to that time. > >As I understand it, marriages in the Primitive church building is a >relatively late event. >All I have been able to find, they were either married in the bride's home, >the bride's brother's home, the middle of the road, at the Justice of >Peace's home, or some other inglorius place. I have not figured out yet >why >anyone would marry in the middle of the road. There must be some >significance to it. > >Tears came into my eyes when the congregation began to sing. I had not >been >in that church since my Grandpa died in 1960. My grandparents met in that >church, married, raised their children and were buried with services in >that >church. The fellow that did the preaching is a friend of ours. He was my >Mother and Dad's pastor, and he spent a lot of time with us during Mother >and >Daddy's illnesses and deaths. > >As you probably know, the titles of the songs are usually the title of the >tune. Probably the ones I like best are David's Lamentation and Wonderous >Cross. It's been a long time since I attended the Primitive Baptist >Church. >So, I can't remember the songs, but I recognize them when I hear them. > >My gr.gr. grandfather gave land for a Primitive Baptist Church building, >and >I am trying to get information about him and it to write an article for a >Cemetery Book. In the 1840s, he was a messenger from his church to a >conference. My grandmother's grandfather was a messenger to the same >conference from a different church. > >Bobbye > > >==== MOYERS Mailing List ==== >RootsWeb's WORLDCONNECT contains more than 39.4 million names >and new GEDCOMs are added daily. Search WorldConnect and upload >your own GEDCOM(s) to http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ > >============================== >Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 >Source for Family History Online. Go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
DON'T MEAN TO BE UGLY BUT HAS THIS TURNED IN TO BE A RELIGIOUS THING? WALLACE AND I DISCUSSED THAT YESTERDAY AND I COULD NOT TELL HIM. BLESSINGS, HELEN.