Tallapoosa County AlArchives News.....Homecoming at Providence Church August 8, 1940
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Ashland Progress August 8, 1940
The writer attended a homecoming service at Providence Church in Tallapoosa 
County last Sunday, the church he first attended while only a small babe in 
1863. It had been nearly 52 years since I was in the church house, but church, 
cemetery and surroundings looked very much the same, only the cemetery was much 
larger than when I last saw it which accounted for the absence of many faces I 
once met there. I was accompanied by my friend, Jim Holdridge and little 
daughter and Miss Curlee. He as well as myself was also reared in that section 
of the county. The day was spent in singing and at noon a bountiful dinner was 
spread in the shade of the beautiful grove that surrounds the church.
It so happened that I was the oldest man present and was called on to "ask the 
blessing," which I did in my feeble way, but I think I was a much better hand at 
the table than I was at "gracing the table." This homecoming is an annual affair 
and is attended by hundreds of people from far and near. May I go again. 
L. B. GIBSON.

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