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Black plaque № 20018

Scatter Branch, TX, United States

Fourth-Sunday Singing. (Held on fourth Sunday of each month) A monthly music "convention" founded in 1885 or 1890 by this church, at old location (1/2 mile east.) Began when G. J. Oslin of Arkansas held a 20-day music school here. Singers came from wide area; a tuning fork was used to give pitch unt

il instruments were obtained. The present officers are J. G. Murphy, president, and Mrs. Ola Speight, secretary. Also in 1885, the village of "Hoover's Gin" was founded near here by John T. Hoover, me

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