Baptists -- Kentucky.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Buell Kazee Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0054 SAA 054
Abstract
Kazee was born August 29, 1900 in the quite rural Burton Fork area of Magoffin County, Kentucky. Baptist Christianity, home made music, and classical commercial recordings were important influences in Kazee’s upbringing. He was singing and playing banjo by age 5 and was ordained to preach at age 17.
After finishing high school at Magoffin Baptist Institute, he went on to Georgetown College to major in English, Greek, and Latin, and study voice. There he came to a stronger appreciation of...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1946-1979
Oneida Baptist Institute Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0048 SAA 048
Abstract
Oneida Baptist Institute in Clay County, Kentucky was founded by James Anderson Burns, a participant in the deadly feuding activity that plagued Clay County in the early 1900s. In his 1928 autobiography, The Crucible, Burns tells of how his participation ended when he was left for dead after a gun battle. He escaped to a mountain-top where he stayed for three days and underwent a transformation, finding that his “…urge for vengeance was gone.”
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Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1906-1983