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Brush arbor meetings
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Treba Hawkins spent Thursday with Ernest and Audine Pack. Other visitors were Danielle Turner,Jimmy Turner, Judie Mucha. They all enjoyed the day and good fellowship.
Visitors of Mabel Pack were Richard Mears and Valerie Mears.
Gari Richie celebrated a birthday May 29. He and Pat have been getting their restaurant fixed up to open.
Barbara Lawson visited Sue Arnold Saturday. They made a trip to Banks Cemetery to put flowers on their parents and family graves Sunday.
JoAnn Pittman celebrated a birthday Saturday May 31. She had supper with her daughter, Angie Meadows and family Sunday evening.
Betty Sue Vaughn celebrated a birthday May 30. Visiting her Sunday were Randy, Natasha and Ellie Vaughn for lunch. Cindy Vaughn visited her also.
Betty Joe Cantrell attended Louise Barnes Anderson funeral Friday at Hunter Funeral Home in Watertown.
Hayden Ervin, Spencer Stanfield, Ben Driver, and Seth Stanley went fishing Friday evening.
Visitors of Kim and Mark Violet and Spencer were Ashli Chew, Hayden Ervin and Katie Roehner, Hunter, Nicole, Ryder and Cooper Stanfield.
Recent visitors of Betty Wilson were JoAnn Pittman, Rebecca Ervin, Betty Byford, Faye Adkins and Treba Hawkins, Brandon Rackley and Diane Evans.
Billy and Mary Jane Hooper and Sue Cook was guest of Johnnie Ruth Hunt Sunday.
Mary McKenzie visited Barbara Self recently.
Billie Simpson, Michelle Walker, Anita and Chloe Braswell visited Dallas and Beth Braswell and boys in Hermitage recently. Anita and Chloe Braswell were supper guests of Billie Simpson recently.
Dot Rogers and Mabel Pack attended Caney Fork Appreciation Day. Congratulations to Dot, she won $100.
Barbara Vanatta told me about a tent revival sponsored by Snow Hill Baptist Church, which reminded me of years-ago when I was a young girl.
 In those days, there were very few places or events for people to go, so the church meetings, and especially revival services, were very popular and always well-attended.
I recall going to the old brush arbor meetings. Some men folks would cut the brush and build an arbor which served as the meeting place. Sometimes a local church might sponsor it rather than meet in a church building. This would help call attention to the service much like a tent meeting does today.
A lot of the time, a traveling evangelist would hold the services by getting the locals to help with the brush arbor. The preacher would stay in someone’s home for a week or two during those services.
In most cases, the preacher would spend a night with different ones and then go out in the community during the day encouraging folks to attend.
As I sit here thinking about the brush arbor meetings, I remember how some worshipers would get so spiritually involved that they would shout; sometimes run about the arbor and even get down on the ground and roll. I think that is where the term “Holy Rollers” came from.
I’ve written before how schools would turn out with the teachers and students going to the revival services in the daytime. I know that when we lived on Toad Road, we would attend revival services at both the Baptist and Methodist churches at Snow Hill during school hours.