Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: People From Dothan, Alabama, Bob Jones, Sr., Bobby Goldsboro, Lucy Baxley, Terry Everett, Matt Cain, Heather Whitestone, Bill Baxley, Richmond Flowers, Sr., Johnny Mack Brown, Donna D'errico, James Thomas, Jr., Bill Yates, P. J. Walters, Curtis Mcgriff, Elizabeth B. Andrews, David Kelton, Brad Baxter, Tony Bowick, Lawrence Dawsey, Jim Farmer, Jamie Thomas, Larry Roberts. Excerpt: Robert Reynolds Jones, Sr. (October 30, 1883January 16, 1968) was an American evangelist, pioneer religious broadcaster and the founder and first president of Bob Jones University. Bob Jones was the son of William Alexander and Georgia Creel Jones and the eleventh of twelve children. In 1883, when Bob was born, Alex Jones, a Confederate veteran, was working a small farm in Dale County, Alabama, but within months the family moved to Brannon Stand west of Dothan. All the unmarried Jones children helped work the farm there, and Bob Jones often sold the family vegetables door-to-door in Dothan. Jones later recalled, "We may have been a little undernourished, but we built some character." Jones's elementary schooling was sketchy by modern standards, but the boy early exhibited a quick mind and oratorical ability. Alex Jones had Bob memorize passages from the Bible and literature, and Bob, who was "timid and self-conscious," was regularly called on to perform for guests. Jones later recalled, "I did whatever my father said to do, but when he told me to 'say the speech,' I suffered agony that nobody could possibly know." Jones must have quickly overcome his stage fright, however, for by 1895, as a twelve-year-old, he gave a spirited, twenty-minute defense of the Populist Party while standing on a dry-goods box in front of a Dothan drug store. His gifts were recognized by D... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=604424We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Geneva County, Alabama: People from Dothan, Alabama, Bob Jones, Sr., Bobby Goldsboro, Lucy Baxley, Terry Everett, Matt Cain. To get started finding People from Geneva County, Alabama: People from Dothan, Alabama, Bob Jones, Sr., Bobby Goldsboro, Lucy Baxley, Terry Everett, Matt Cain, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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People from Geneva County, Alabama: People from Dothan, Alabama, Bob Jones, Sr., Bobby Goldsboro, Lucy Baxley, Terry Everett, Matt Cain
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: People From Dothan, Alabama, Bob Jones, Sr., Bobby Goldsboro, Lucy Baxley, Terry Everett, Matt Cain, Heather Whitestone, Bill Baxley, Richmond Flowers, Sr., Johnny Mack Brown, Donna D'errico, James Thomas, Jr., Bill Yates, P. J. Walters, Curtis Mcgriff, Elizabeth B. Andrews, David Kelton, Brad Baxter, Tony Bowick, Lawrence Dawsey, Jim Farmer, Jamie Thomas, Larry Roberts. Excerpt: Robert Reynolds Jones, Sr. (October 30, 1883January 16, 1968) was an American evangelist, pioneer religious broadcaster and the founder and first president of Bob Jones University. Bob Jones was the son of William Alexander and Georgia Creel Jones and the eleventh of twelve children. In 1883, when Bob was born, Alex Jones, a Confederate veteran, was working a small farm in Dale County, Alabama, but within months the family moved to Brannon Stand west of Dothan. All the unmarried Jones children helped work the farm there, and Bob Jones often sold the family vegetables door-to-door in Dothan. Jones later recalled, "We may have been a little undernourished, but we built some character." Jones's elementary schooling was sketchy by modern standards, but the boy early exhibited a quick mind and oratorical ability. Alex Jones had Bob memorize passages from the Bible and literature, and Bob, who was "timid and self-conscious," was regularly called on to perform for guests. Jones later recalled, "I did whatever my father said to do, but when he told me to 'say the speech,' I suffered agony that nobody could possibly know." Jones must have quickly overcome his stage fright, however, for by 1895, as a twelve-year-old, he gave a spirited, twenty-minute defense of the Populist Party while standing on a dry-goods box in front of a Dothan drug store. His gifts were recognized by D... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=604424We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Geneva County, Alabama: People from Dothan, Alabama, Bob Jones, Sr., Bobby Goldsboro, Lucy Baxley, Terry Everett, Matt Cain. To get started finding People from Geneva County, Alabama: People from Dothan, Alabama, Bob Jones, Sr., Bobby Goldsboro, Lucy Baxley, Terry Everett, Matt Cain, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.