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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... brother Billy's and asked him to get up and give him some more booze. Billy told him plainly that he would not give him any more. "You go home you have too much now," said Billy. Asa says, "If you don't give me some whiskey I will jump into the well." "Go ahead," says Billy. In a few minutes they heard Asa hit the bottom of the well. The well was ninety-four feet deep. Billy jumped out to see and sure enough Asa was in the well. Then Billy had to tear down the beadstead to get ropes to pull Asa out. As they rolled him out he said "Roll, Billy Roll," and about every ten feet "Roll, Billy Roll." So this became a by-word at log rollings, "Roll, Billy roll." At another time Asa and one of his sons were going along one night. Asa had on a little too much booze again. He stepped off into a new well about twenty feet deep. His son told him "to stay there" until he went home and got some one to help him out. Asa turned a new leaf after that and professed a hope in Jesus. I truly hope he is at rest. Old Uncle Berry McDaniel and my father were working at Elder Drury Dobbins.' He set some whiskey on the table and said "Brethren, if any of you want a little whisky here it is, but don't drink too much." Now this is not mentioned to slander Elder Dobbins but only to show the use of whisky in those days. I am sure that no one esteemed Elder Dobbins any higher than myself. The first person buried at Buffalo Church was a foreigner. He was passing the church yard with his gun when he saw a squirrel up one of the trees. He shot the squirrel and killed it. It lodged in the tree and he climbed up the tree and fell out and he himself was killed. They buried him at Buffalo Church in 1787, one year after the church was founded. No one ever found out the name of...