{"id":213,"date":"2009-03-31T21:19:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T02:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2009-03-31T21:19:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T02:19:12","slug":"photo-reveals-our-ancestors-religious-devotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/photo-reveals-our-ancestors-religious-devotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Reveals Our Ancestor&#8217;s Religious Devotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a book signing in Evansville in February I met a cousin Mildred Moore Robinson who gave me this wonderful photo that belonged to her mother.\u00a0 The photograph was of an 1890s baptism in Cedar Hill, Tennessee.\u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0church was a central part of the African American community.\u00a0\u00a0 People would come from miles around to witness a baptism as shown in this photo.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<div id=\"attachment_211\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-211\" title=\"baptism-in-cedar-hill-tn\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/baptism-in-cedar-hill-tn-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"1890s Baptism in Cedar Hill, TN\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/baptism-in-cedar-hill-tn-300x205.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/baptism-in-cedar-hill-tn.jpg 899w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1890s Baptism in Cedar Hill, TN<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a book signing in Evansville in February I met a cousin Mildred Moore Robinson who gave me this wonderful photo that belonged to her mother.\u00a0 The photograph was of an 1890s baptism in Cedar Hill, Tennessee.\u00a0\u00a0 The\u00a0church was a central part of the African American community.\u00a0\u00a0 People would come from miles around to witness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[72,93,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wessyngton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}