Disrupted by the Railroad

ID: 1762 ~ Source: Cole, Nellie Lee Hill, interviewed by Rebecca Sharpless, August 24, 1981, in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. View the full interview
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Nellie Lee Hill Cole speaks of the trains that disrupted the Sunday service at First United Methodist Church

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By Terri Jo Ryan
First United Methodist Church marks its founding year as 1850, when the Rev. Joseph Perkins Sneed, a circuit-riding Methodist minister, preached to the inhabitants of Waco Village at the foot of Jackson Street on the banks of the Brazos River.…