Excerpted from the “City News” column:
Rev. J.T. DAVENPORT (colored) states there will be services at the Baptist Church by the Rev. S.P. KNIGHT every second Sunday.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 16 August 1889. Available online at digitalnc.org.
Excerpted from the “City News” column:
Rev. J.T. DAVENPORT (colored) states there will be services at the Baptist Church by the Rev. S.P. KNIGHT every second Sunday.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 16 August 1889. Available online at digitalnc.org.
Communicated — Collie NORMAN, a worthy colored girl of Plymouth, and a prominent member of the Baptist church, departed this life on Saturday, 13th. She died expressing her great hope in Jesus, and made a selection of the 23rd Chapt., 14th verse of St. Luke to be preached from for her funeral, by Rev. S.P. KNIGHT, on Sunday, the 14th, which services was well attended and nobly performed. — B.H. LANE.
Source: Roanoke Beacon, 19 July 1889. Available online at digitalnc.org.