Sunday was a professional baseball player turned evangelist. In 1912, he preached in Wheeling for six weeks, three times a day. Thousands of people attended, packing a huge 1500 foot long tabernacle, specially built for the Revival in four days by Wheelingites.
Portrait of Store Owner Frank Sadler, Point Marion, PA
Date:
ca. 1910
Description:
'Pennsylvania store owner Frank Sadler and a horse-drawn float he created for the town's 4th of July celebration; the photograph was published (1969/08/10) in Frank Heaster's Sunday column, "Mason Dixonland Notebook" in the Morgantown "Dominion Post (separated from Box 21, folder 1)
'Jess Spurlock, who was the son of Rev. Stephen Spurlock, and paternal grand father of Justice of Peace- Claude Spurlock. (Claude says he was sheriff of Cabell County at one time, but the only Jess Spurlock who was sheriff of Cabell County died in 1819 and was sheriff until 1811. This was the pioneer Jesse, so far i know. After 1811 there is no record of a sheriff Jesse Spurlock.) '
'Mrs. D. M. Stout, who with her husband and two sisters came to Montes, W. Va. in the Spring of 1905 to cook for a large camp of woodsmen for the Browns. She remained in this position for 2 or 3 years and then managed the private living quarters of the officials, in addition acting as Postmistress and store manger throughout the 25 years the Brown manufactured lumber. A very efficient and loyal employee. Her husband, D. M. Stout, was railroad construction foreman through most of these years. There were none better.'
