"We had a fearful time over the building of that church--fell out over the question of a new site.

The two sites wasn't more'n two hundred yards apart, but you'd have thought they was a thousand by the bitterness of that fight.

We was split up into three factions--one wanted the east site and one the south, and one held to the old.

It was fought out in bed and at board, and in church and at market.

All the old scandals of three generations were dragged out of their graves and aired.