1952 Cherokee Scout
Thank you to everyone who commented on yesterday’s post about Granny’s new found treasure. Granny was right when she guessed the flyer was from the 1950s.
Several of you had the great idea to look at a calendar to figure out what year in the 50s the revival took place. I would never have thought of that on my own.
Don Casada also thought to look on the Digital North Carolina website of newspaper archives. He found the notice above sharing the details of the revival. He also sent a link to search results for Granny’s grandfather. He was in the newspaper a lot for his long and far reaching ministry.
Here’s an article from August of that same year from the Cherokee Scout.
Rev. W. T. Truett To Be Honored At Home Coming
The Rev. W T. Truett will be the honored guest at Upper Peachtree Baptist Church’s annual home coming Sunday, August 31, He began his forty years in the ministry at the Peachtree Church. Mr. Truett’s 69th birthday will also be celebrated on that day. Mr. Truett says he has served churches in Transylvania County, Union County, Ga., Tennessee, and Cherokee County, as well as surrounding counties. He has preached 9,000 sermons, baptized approximately 2,000 people and conducted between 1,500 and 2,000 funerals. The Rev. Floyd B. Clark, associational missionary, says they hope to have a good singing. A public dinner will be served at noon. Mr. Clark will introduce the speaker, Mr. Truett, who will preach at 11 a. m.
I’m not sure if every state has a newspaper archive site like the NC one, but if they do you should visit it and search for folks in your family or even yourself and see what turns up. If you live in NC or have family or friends you’d like to look for here’s the link to the site Don sent me.
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Tipper
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I have intended to tell you this for quite some time but I can never remember to, well today you jogged my memory once more so I am telling this before I forget again lol. As you know I will be 70 in August and back many years ago I was married for a time to a man 10 years older than me, his middle name was Truett—his mother told him she named him after a very well known preacher with the last name of Truett. That is such an unusual name and the odds of there being more than one preacher from that era with the last name of Truett I just feel it has to be the same one. Of course I could be wrong but isn’t it funny that I would have been married to a man named after a preacher named Truett and all these years later here I am watching his relatives on YouTube.
Gaylia, it might have been George Truett who was more well known, but we’re related to him too 🙂 Love that connection!
I’m sure they had a “good singing” at the celebration. Love the phrase!
oh my what a wonderful treasure to have!!
That’s wonderful! I’m so happy for Granny! My husband’s great granddaddy and his wife were charter members of our home church, and he was a pastor there in 1914. It’s so interesting to find out the history of our relatives. Thanks to Mr. Don Casada for the link to the digital North Carolina website of newspaper archives. Can’t wait to do some research.
Interesting that I was preoccupied with the family picture while everybody else was focused on the flyer. Am I that different?
Same here, Ed; I was looking at that family picture too. I didn’t pay as much attention to the flyer because revivals were nothing new to me growing up. It’s nice the connection readers are finding.
What a beautiful and wonderful treasure find Granny made yesterday, and what a great memory too! Way to go Granny!! 🙂
How wonderful for Granny to find such a treasure! You truly do have faithful, kind followers. God bless ❤️
Happy Saturday and here’s hoping everyone will keep cool during this expected heatwave on the eastern side of the country. Granny knows how timelines well. Glad others found the newspaper archives a big help to confirm what she already figured out. Y’all garden early mornings to beat the heat this week!
Those newspaper archives can be a treasure trove of information. Local libraries can also be a good source.
Preacher Truett. is certainly one who could claim “I have fought a good fight. I have kept the faith.” Couldn’t ask for better. As active as he was over a multi-county and state area his life would have been an open book and everybody would have known that what he represented himself to be was indeed just what he was. And what, I wonder, are the stories of the “approximately 2000” God-touched he baptised? The Lord has had a physical body in this world ever since he was born in human form at Bethlehem and that body is his people.
I was trying to find out about Uncle John Riera (from Texarkana by way of Spain-left during FRANCO regime.) He was crushed in Bishop, Va mine in July 1973. He was a fire boss and had gone in to check structure before allowing crew in and thus met his cruel fate at 49 years. But anyway the Bluefield Daily Telegraph (TELL-A-LIE) wanted me to pay for the archive…. I’m calling hogwash. But anyway, can you imagine a man PREACHING THOUSANDS OF FUNERALS, LEADING THOUSANDS TO JESUS, AND LEADING HUNDREDS OF REVIVALS??? Talk about a fine man whose life meant more than most-that was Preacher Truett! What a legacy you all have in that gentleman of the Lord. I’d be excited to meet him if he was my kin at the pearly gate! What a meeting that will be!!!
I’m so happy you found it. My husband and I plan to visit your part on NC hopefully in the fall. We have a friend who has cabins, (close to Ashville). One of our stops is the folk school. We hope since you have had plenty of rain this year, (I hope it continues to be good growing weather), that we will see some beautiful fall colors.
My wife’s aunt is married to a preacher named Carol Caldwell, Woodruff, SC. Carol is now around 90 years old and still preaching. Every church that he has been the pastor of will soon be busting at the doors, he has brought several churches back from the brink of closing the doors. He has won many awards during his lifetime ministry, including South Carolina’s highest civilian award “The Order Of The Palmetto.” I heard him say not too long ago he usually preaches over 100 funerals a year. He is a people person, and preaches sermons that a common man can understand. Just like Jesus, he uses a lot of parables in his sermons. At my wife’s funeral he compared life to the 4 seasons of the year, he said in one season you prepare the next such as in the fall you began to prepare for winter to make the point of why in your life would you not prepare for your death meaning getting or being “saved”as I have heard it called many times.