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The family reunion was to...
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The family reunion was to be held in the old family church. A covered-dish dinner at noon, of course, but this would be added: Everyone was invited to come at 10:30 a.m. to attend the church service.
Yes, that would swell the crowd a good bit. Their little group of 20 would become 60 or 80, and wouldn't that be wonderful!
So they came from hundreds of miles in all directions, a goodly number of the descendants of William and Elizabeth, the couple who had come to that valley in the early 1800s and helped start that church.
Yes, that would swell the crowd a good bit. Their little group of 20 would become 60 or 80, and wouldn't that be wonderful!
So they came from hundreds of miles in all directions, a goodly number of the descendants of William and Elizabeth, the couple who had come to that valley in the early 1800s and helped start that church.
