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Jim Deeter

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This interview is one of a series conducted concerning West Virginia communities, focusing on Ceredo. At the time of the interview, Mrs. Billups was the church clerk for the First Baptist Church in Ceredo. She discusses: her personal history and her family; her job at the church; her husband; different pastors (such as Messenger, Patton, Hubert Six, Dr. Armstrong, Dr. John Meadows, and Reverend Kessee); men and women in the church and their roles in the church; different people who attend the church; anecdotes about the church; raising money for a new church building; and how the church has changed over the years.

Publication Date

1984

Identifier

OH64-338

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Text

Library of Congress Subjects

Billups, Roma Gail, 1931- -- Autobiography.
First Baptist Church -- Oral histories.
Baptists -- Clergy -- West Virginia -- Oral histories.
Community life -- West Virginia -- Oral histories.
Church attendance -- West Virginia -- Oral histories.

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Interview is included in the Marshall University Oral History Collection. The index number is OH64-338.

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Oral History Interview: Roma Gail Billups

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