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Petty, Henrietta Petty, Jenie M. Petty, Esther A. Clegg, with the 5^th and 6^th chapters in class.  Sometimes several would have a poem and 4, 5 and 6, and each repeated a verse.  Some would repeat a hymn alone.  Well, in the war times it was hard to keep a true record.  The Moores’ the Bynums’, nearly all dead and moved away, but Mr. Luther Clegg, getting old, held out for many years.  Then his son, R. B. Clegg, was superintendent for quite a number of years.

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Thomas W. Mansfield was "licensed to preach" at Brown's Chapel on May 8, 1888

News item from "The Chatham Record" May 13, 1888

CHAPTER VIII

 PREACHER SENT OUT

From 1868 to 1869 I cannot tell, as I was off most of the time teaching in the upper part of Moore County.  In 1876, 1877, until 1879 it was opened up in the spring and in the fall Thomas Mansfield made the proposal to get a stove, so several agreed to help and that winter there was a stove in the church.  Sunday School was kept up, that is if the weather would permit.  John A. Hornaday was appointed superintendent.  He was three or four years later given license to preach (ca. 1887) and joined the North Carolina M. E. Conference; then about a year after Thomas W. Mansfield was given license to preach in the same church.(1888)  Preached his first sermon just before the  Conference was divided.  The annual conference was held in Greensboro, the Bishop made a talk and asked for volunteers for the mission field.  Thomas Mansfield said he would go; he came to bid his people goodbye; he could hardly talk.  Betty Harmon commenced the song, “God Be With You Till We Meet Again;” he broke down and many shed tears.  He went, spent two years; his health got so bad he was called back to North