WILSON COUNTY TN - MISC - Expression of Thanks to Miss Italia Davis  1872
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An Expression of Thanks.

Miss Italia Davis:  We, the deacons of the Missionary Baptist church at
LaGuardo, Tenn., accept of your present, for the church and for
ourselves, with grateful feelings and emotions.  Its conception is
well-timed, and most appropriate; and its effects upon your accomplished
teacher, Miss Emma Davis, and yourselves, most happy.  It is an incident
of note, implanting in our bosoms the kindest feelings towards you and
the school; indicating a pains-taking in training worthy of Lucretia
daughters by Lucretia mothers, both here and at Rome.  None but
high-born are worthy and equal to such conception and achievement .  Our
worthy and much beloved pastor, Lewis Lindsay, desires us, in all
gratitude, now to take these lamps as light from your hands to dispel
the surrounding darkness and place them upon these pedestals and
dedicate them to the perpetual service, the honor and the glory of
Almighty God.
Turn Vaughan, John Bates, Sr., E. W. Vaughan, Asa Greer, Rufus Eagan.

Source - The Christian Index.
The Union of 
South-Western Baptist, of Alabama          The Christian Herald, of
Tennessee.     
Vol. 51 -- No. 27     Franklin Printing House, Atlanta, Ga., Thursday,
July 11, 1872.    Whole No. 2627.

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