Remembering Our First Assembly Delegates

By Ted Kliora

David G. Roebuck & Co.,

I received your Heritage Calendar today and to my surprise I found the picture of my great-grandmother Sarah “Sallie” Ann Hamby. Born 1859 in Union Co. Georgia, and died in Zion, Illinois, April 13, 1941.

I sent you a picture of my Hamby family that was taken in about 1905. In that picture was Sarah Ann and her husband William L. Hamby [who was born in 1856] in Cherokee Co. NC and died in 1908, and buried at the DeHart cemetery at Holly Springs in Monroe Co., TN.

I’m sending you this letter just in case you haven’t put Sarah Ann Hamby as the wife of preacher William L. Hamby.

I was born in 1942 a year after the death of Sarah Ann, but I’ve heard from many people in my life that told me of her kindness and loving ways.

The history of the Church of God and all the people have been a great interest to me. I visit the mountains every year, and on these visits my life is renewed with joy by remembering their lives.

So your work and the work of others to me is of great value. I have visited the Center and was treated well by Louis, who tried to make our small group comfortable.

Thank You

                                                                                                Theodore C. Kliora

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The home of J.C. and Melissa Murphy, located in Cherokee County, North Carolina, was the site of the first General Assembly. (L-R) W.F. Bryant and R.G. Spurling