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musician and a preacher, he’s enriched the lives of countless others along the way.
“My wife and I had 12 children and raised nine. I have 22 grandchildren, and 23 greatgrands with two more due in the next two months. They’re scattered all over this country.”
His family’s roots in Rappahannock go back almost two centuries to his grandfather Samuel who moved to the county from Maryland’s Eastern Shore in 1806. ”1 was born in Woodville in 1888. Grover Cleveland was president then,” Dennis reported. “Woodville looked about the same then as it does today. There’s not much difference.”
A Different World
Time’s hand may have touched but lightly on the little community at the foot of Red Oak Mountain during Mr. Dennis’ 93 years. Not so with the rest of the county.
By 1902, Mr. Dennis’
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