Memoir and Personal Recollection of J.B. Corey (Volume 1) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914. Excerpt: ... Chapter 5 Trip Down The River To New Orleans In 1906. In the Spring of 1906, taking a desire to revisit the scenes of my early days on the river, and see what changes had taken place, my wife and I took passage on a small stern wheel boat. We found there were no longer the first class passenger boats that used to ply on the river. As the boat stopped along the way to take on freight, it afforded me an excellent chance to see the improvements that had taken place, in which forests had been converted into villages, towns and cities. Our Granddaughter took the train and overtook us at Point Pleasant. Finding Ma, had all the pleasure she desired from a slow coach of a boat, she and our Granddaughter took a train home from Cincinnati and I continued down the river, stopping at the different places where the old-time coal boatmen disposed of their cargoes. On attempting to find some of my old acquaintances, I found they were all dead or had emigrated South, and I could not find a single one of my old friends of yore. Remarkarle Effect Of Sermon I Read On Two Boats. On Palm Sunday, April, 1906, the clerk of the boat came to me and said: "Are you a preacherT" I said: "No, I am not a preacher nor the son of a preacher. My wife makes me wear a white necktie to preserve my collars and people take me for a preacher." He replied: "We have ten holiness women on board going to Nashville, Tenn., to hold a holiness convention, and they thought you were a preacher and they would like to hold a service." I said: "Well, I can get them up a service if that is all they want." "What kind of a service will you hold," the clerk asked. I said: "Did you not see that Salvation Army man and wife and lass? I am the man who introduced the Salvation Army into the United States and I wil...