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CHAPTER VII
WAR BETWEEN THE STATES
Well, the war between the North and South was so bad, did not try to keep up for awhile. It was impossible to keep up regularly classes, but in 1863 there was a proposal made for all those that wanted a Sunday School at Mt. Zion the 3rd Sunday in May to come out. Well, a local preacher agreed to come and help out and preach just a short sermon after the school was organized.
1863 3rd Sunday in May. A goodly number of neighbors met. The names taken down – Luther Clegg, Spencer Petty.
Females: Mrs. Flora Clegg, Miss Lydia M. Gean, Mrs. Nancy Petty, Cattie S. Gean, Sarah Brown, Antoniette Gunter, Eliza B. Clegg, Mary A. Gean, Addie M. Clegg, Esther A. Clegg, Cynthia J. Petty, Henrietta Petty, Sarah J. Brown, Martha A. Brown, Elizabeth Brown. Names of males: Isaac N. Petty, Rufus B. Clegg, Walter P. Brooks, Thomas W. Gunter, M. T. Brown and William Pendergrass.
Fourth Sunday in May 1864. Met as usual. Lydia Gean, 26 verses of hymns; Rufus Clegg, 2 sections Catechism; Cattie S. Gean, 4th chapter
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Matthew, 25 verses; Eliza B. Clegg, 4th chapter of John, 51 verses; Addie M. Clegg, 2 sections in Catechism.
First Sunday in June 1864. A few of us assembled at church to organize a Sunday School as there was such a stir on, people hardly seemed to know what or how to do. Soldiers going and coming and so many hearing of some dear and loved ones sick in camp or dead, that the Sunday School had let die out. A few of the old people who did not have to go to war and the little children met again on this Sunday, being a pleasant day, a day to be blessed, we organized with the following: Luther Clegg, Superintendent; Spencer Petty, Assistant; Miss Annie Clegg, Secretary; Miss Jane M. Clegg, Teacher; Mrs. Martha B. Pendergrass, Teachers; Mrs. Flora A. Clegg, Treasurer; Miss Eliza B. Clegg, Librarian; Names of males: Theodore Caudle, Isaac N. Petty, Oscar Brown, Rufus B. Clegg, Adolphus Brown, M. T. Brown, Andrew J. Petty, Walter N. Brooks; William Pennington, Thomas W. Mansfield, Charlie F. Match, Thomas W. Gunter, Alvis Petty, John F. Gunter, John B. Clegg, Andrew Caudle and David F. Clegg.
July of 1864. Names of females for May, but I cannot tell how the lesson was recited, but
