Onell’s High School Class – Bemis High School Class <strong>of</strong> 1936
J. W. <strong>Wallace</strong> Family -1950 Back row: J.O., Mary, Glenn, Marie, Bonnie, Mildred, Cleatus, Naomi, Hershel Front row: Margie, Jimmy, J.W., Marilyn, Allie, Johnny, Tommy JAMES WELLS WALLACE by Mary H. <strong>Wallace</strong> "Where is that light coming from, Allie?" the young farmer was washing his tired, dusty feet after a long, hot day ploughing in the fertile fields <strong>of</strong> the Decatur county farm. James Wells <strong>Wallace</strong> stared in amazement as the light coming from above played over his feet and shined down between the cracks in the crude back porch <strong>of</strong> the tenant house by the creek. His young wife, Allie, and their small children saw the bright light and wondered, "What does this mean? Where is that light coming from?" There were probably no street lights in all <strong>of</strong> Decatur County, Tennessee, in those days. No cars on the remote country dirt road and certainly no airplanes. Then the young Methodist lay exhorter remembered the verse <strong>of</strong> Scripture that Paul had quoted from Isaiah 52:7 in Romans 10:15: "How beautiful are the feet <strong>of</strong> them that preach the gospel <strong>of</strong> peace, and sing glad tidings <strong>of</strong> good things." Was God sending him a special message? Already a good thing had happened in Decatur County. In 1918 a little known oneness minister, Brother Kennedy, had built a brush arbor for a revival. The <strong>Wallace</strong>s along with other relatives had attended that revival and there they first heard <strong>of</strong> the infilling <strong>of</strong> the Holy Ghost and the oneness <strong>of</strong> God, baptism in Jesus' name. J.W. and his wife Allie had both gladly heard the Word and were soon filled with the Holy Ghost. But when they returned to the little community church at Corinth, they found that young <strong>Wallace</strong> was not welcome to take leadership as a lay exhorter in the Methodist church any longer. But this did not stop the Spirit-filled believers. They met in brush arbors, storefronts, cottage prayer meetings as well as one Sunday a week in the community church. Young J.W. <strong>Wallace</strong> became a leader <strong>of</strong> the Pentecostals in that community, especially to his own relatives. His sister Maggie, who had married Allie's brother, Tommy Robbins, along with several <strong>of</strong> Allie's sisters
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First UPC Orchestra - 1948 Standing
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Many successful revivals were condu
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When spring arrived in 1942, we mov
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A year after the revival I married
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Jane Hardwick Young and Alton Young
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West Nashville UPC news paper - 194
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Many life long friendships were for
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J.W. Wallace Memorial Plaque in Wes
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Photo dates about 1900 - all the J.
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