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Thread #155336   Message #3653394
Posted By: LadyJean
23-Aug-14 - 08:00 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Lying Baptists and truth-telling Baptist
Subject: RE: Folklore: Lying Baptists and truth-telling Baptist
My 7 or 8 generations back grandfather, the Reverend Alexander Porter was a Presbyterian Minister in Abbeville SC unitl 1808, when the church split over slavery. He and the rest of the anti slavery faction moved to Fairhaven Ohio. (A wides spot in the road just north of Cincinnatti.) Some years later there was a discussion in the Fairhaven church over whether or not they should have a pump organ to play for services. They split once again, only this time the pump organ faction moved a few miles down the road.