“I have a program which was given in 1874.  They don’t give programs like that now.  People wouldn’t listen that long.  We each of us had two and three, and some of us had six and seven parts to learn.  We learnt them and recited them and came back the next night to give a Christmas Eve program.  You can make a copy of it if you want.

“A.C.  Richmond is Mrs. Childress’ brother.  Anna George is Bee Daniels’ mother (Bee Daniels is Mrs. Anthony, a colored public school teacher here).  Corinne Jordan is living on Gaines between Eighth and Ninth streets.  She is about seventy-five years old now.  She was about Mollie’s age and I was about five years older than Molly.  Mary Riley is C.C.  Riley’s sister.  C.C.  Riley is Haven Riley’s father.  C.C. is dead now.  Haven Riley was a teacher, at Philander Smith, for a while.  He’s a stenographer now.  August Jackson and J.W.  Jackson are my brothers.  W.O.  Emory became one of our pastors at Wesley.  John Bush, everybody’s heard of him.  He had the Mosaic temple and got a big fortune together before he died, but his children lost it all.  Annie Richmond is Annie Childress, the wife of Professor E.C.  Childress, the State Supervisor.  Corinne Winfrey turned out to be John Bush’s wife.  Willie Lane married W.O.  Emery.  Scipio Jordan became the big man in the Tabernacle.  H.H.  Gilkey went to the post office.  He married Lizzie Hull.  She’s living still too.”

Extra Comment

The marriage license which Mrs. White showed me, was issued March 27, 1879, by A.W.  Worthen, County Clerk, per W.H.W.  Booker to Julia Glen and J.R.  White.  It carries the name of Reverend W.H.  Crawford who was the Pastor of Wesley Chapel Church at that time.  The license was issued in Pulaski County.

GRAND ENTERTAINMENT AT WESLEY CHAPEL Wednesday Evening, Dec’r. 23, 1874

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PROGRAMME

Part I

Address by the General Manager Mr. A.C.  Richmond

Song—­We Come Today By the School

Prayer Rev. William Henry Crawford

Declamation—­My Mother’s Bible Miss Annie George

Dialogue—­Three Little Graves Miss M. Upshaw and
                                     Miss M.A.  Scruggs

Dialogue—­About Heaven Miss Julia Jackson and
                                     Miss Alice Richardson

Declamation—­Mud Pie Miss Amelia Rose

Declamation—­Ducklins and Miss Goren Jordan
   Ducklins

Dialogue—­The Beggar Mr. H.H.  Gilkey and
                                     Mr. W.A.M.  Cypers

Declamation—­Work While Master Albert Pryor
   You Work

Dialogue—­The Miser Mr. C.C.  Riley and
                                     Mr. Charles Hurtt, Jr.