TX BIOS:  A. W. Cobbs
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   00011
   
   Sketch - [?] Pioneer
   
   FOLKWAYS
   
   Martha S. Jennings, P.W.
   
   McLennan County, Texas.
   
   District 8. 700 240 Dup
   
   No. Words 138
   
   File No. 240
   
   Page No. 1
   
   Reference
   
   Mr. A. W. Cobbs, Bosqueville, Texas.
   
   Mr. Cobbs said their family physician was Dr. J. J. Riddle, who was
   born in 1821 in Alabama. He was educated and qualified for the
   practice of medicine.
   
   In 1846 he moved to the Indian Village of Waco, where he afterwards
   began to study for the Ministry and became an ordained Minister. He
   was a skilled physician and an eloquent preacher, both of which
   callings he pursued with zeal and success.
   
   Mr. Cobbs remembered that the Doctor would not enter a place where
   whiskey was sold, but would send someone else to call out any one with
   whom he wished to speak. The members of the Church placed a shaft of
   beautiful marble in the Country Church yard at Bosqueville on which,
   by his request, has been carefully carved the simple epitaph "A sinner
   saved by Grace".
   
     NOTE: [???]

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