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Feature Article on Poplar Street Baptism. Topic: DOWNTOWN/BUILDINGS
By Jim Sayre in April, 2000

POPLAR STREET BAPTISMS

"The following persons were baptized in the river, near the Poplar street crossing, on Sunday, the Rev. S.D. Speece administering the rite: Mrs. A.H. Kite, Mrs. James H. Bush, Mrs. E.L. Fristoe, and Mrs. Sarah Francis" (Shelby County Democrat, Apr. 18, 1884).

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