by Peter C. Hickson
"Almost simultaneously with the beginning of the Church of God in
Florida among the whites, the colored people began to accept its
governance also. During the year 1909, Edmond S. Barr, a man who had
received the baptism with the Holy Ghost, and his wife Rebecca, who had
the blessing, also, visited the Church of God camp meeting at the old
Holiness Campground at Durant, Florida and became quite well informed as
to the doctrine of the Church."
"He was a native of the Bahamas Islands, where he later returned to his
countrymen to give them the light of the gospel. Somewhere near this
time, a group of people in Miami, Florida, were also organized, and a
little later a group in Jacksonville, Florida, were also organized."
