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wayne was a local genealogist and we began to talk about the details of marriages, deaths, deeds, etc. as though it had happened yesterday, not almost 200 years ago.
He knew about the old cemetery and the Bryan house and promised to call the owner of the property for permission to see it. Our hopes had just been realized.
Wayne was a wealth of information. He shared stories about the church’s original and two subsequent buildings, the split in the congregation around 1900, and the two oak chairs donated by William Jennings Bryan. He promised us a copy of the church history he had just written. He also said he would share a copy of the church records dating
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