SINGING SCHOOL

SINGING SCHOOL

Sargent Baptist Church Singing School, 1919

A week-long "singing school" was held for Sargent Baptist Church about 1919 by a Professor C.H. Bottoms from Jonesboro. The participants were captured in the photograph provided by T.H. Holeman. Professor Bottoms is the bald gentleman standing ti the right of the middle window. In the group are, from left, front, Tom Gordon, (next four unknown), Myrtle Copeland, Pauline Holeman (sister of T.H.), Cliff Elliott, Edna Holeman (behind Cliff), Evelyn Newton, Eugenia Scroggins, Clessie Copeland, Cora Mae Morris, Lucile Scroggins, Elizabeth Warren, Manelle Ward, Hoyt Warren, Claude Warren, Wendall Warren, Buford Morris, Joe Copeland, Olver Gentry; second row, Bertha Newton, Nora Newton (in lap), Lillian Murphy, Hattie Bridges, Annie Lou McBurnett, (skip two unknown), Emma Gentry, Grace Bridges, Eloise Murphy, Delia Bridges, (skip one unknown), Lucille Gordon, Eunice Allen, Mattie Sue Bridges, Sue Warren, Ruby Copeland, Mrs. Brewer Witcher and baby Amelia, Mr. Crawford (Mrs. Witcher's father); back, Ruth Knott, (skip one unknown), Sallie Kate Spratlin, Jim Holeman (T.H.'s father), Paul Warren, Ollie Knott, Dr. C.C. Elliott, William Lasseter, Mr. Spratlin, in window - Tom Bridges and Thomas Witcher, Prof. Claude Bottoms, Rev. W.E. Fuller - Pastor of Sargent Baptist Church, T. Hewlette "Dicky" Holeman (named for a Newnan lawyer named Hewlette Hall), Ernest Stroud, R.C. Shugart, Maude Warren Carmical, Dean Bridges, Retha Bridges, in window - Cecil Lasseter and John Smith and Brewer Witcher.

Newnan Times-Herald

c. 1919

T.H. Holeman

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CCR 1987.09.22

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